Protests Sweep France After Macron Names Right Wing PM Despite Election Results | Truthout
Over 100,000 people in France took to the streets in protest against Macron's right-wing prime minister choice. Is this a denial of democracy? The French people are in rebellion, ready for a long battle. #FranceProtests #Macron
Elon Musk's X in the spotlight: 1.2 billion views of false election info
False or misleading information about the U.S. elections shared by Elon Musk on his social network X has garnered over 1.2 billion views this year. The Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) highlighted on Thursday the influence of the billionaire supporting Donald Trump on the election campaign. The non-profit CCDH noted 50 posts published sinc...
Editorial: Conservatives are calling Kamala Harris a Witch. Here's why that's dangerous - Editorial, News, Paganism, Perspectives, Politics, The Wild Hunt, Witchcraft
Witchcraft & Pagan News - Faced with a woman of color at the top of the Democratic Party's presidential ticket, opponents turn to a reliable trope of sexist defamation: call that a woman a Witch. | Editorial, News, Paganism, Perspectives, Politics, The Wild Hunt, Witchcraft
Election fraud claims heighten support for violence among Republicans but not Democrats
Allegations of election fraud by politicians increase Republican support for political violence, partly due to heightened mistrust of racial and religious outgroups, while having no similar effect on Democrats.
Shortly after 6:00 yesterday evening at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a shooter on the roof of a building about 400 feet from the stage appears to have shot eight bullets at the former president and into the crowd. Trump appeared to flinch and reach for his right ear as Secret Service agents crouched over the former president. When the agents got word the shooter was “down,” they lifted Trump to move him out. He asked to get his shoes and then to put them on.
The Conservative 'War on Woke' Is Getting Insanely Stupid
The right-wing battle against 'wokeness' was always pretty stupid, but it seemed to at least mean something. What I used to think it was, was a pushback agai...
Inside Twitter, Fears Musk Will Return Platform to Its Early Troubles (Published 2022)
Content moderators warn that Elon Musk doesn’t appear to understand the issues that he and the company will face if he drops its guardrails around speech.
[2010.10397] Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels
When toxic online communities on mainstream platforms face moderation measures, such as bans, they may migrate to other platforms with laxer policies or set up their own dedicated websites....
FBI director says antifa is an ideology, not an organization
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Chris Wray told lawmakers Thursday that antifa is an ideology, not an organization, delivering testimony that puts him at odds with President Donald Trump, who has said he would designate it a terror group.
American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism - Stanislav Vysotsky - Google Books
Since the election of President Trump and the rise in racist and white supremacist activity, the militant antifascist movement known as antifa has become increasingly active and high profile in the United States. This book analyzes the tactics, culture, and practices of the movement through a combination of social movement studies and critical criminological perspectives.Based on extensive fieldwork and interviews with activists, this book is the first scholarly sociological analysis of contemporary antifascist activism in the United States. Drawing on social movement studies, subculture studies and critical criminology, it explains antifa's membership, their ideology, strategy, tactics and use of culture as a weapon against the far right. It provides the most detailed account of this movement and also cuts through much of the mythology and common misunderstandings about it.This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology, political science, anthropology, criminology, and history; however, a general audience would also be interested in the explanation of what drives antifa tactics and strategy in light of the high-profile conflicts between fascists and antifascists.
President Trump has blamed anti-fascist protesters for inciting violence at protests and tried to link “far left” activists to his mainstream Democratic opponent, Joe Biden.