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@EmilyDreyfuss

Writer. Editor. Gesticulator. Co-author of Meme Wars for . Co-lead of Harvard News Leaders summit and Media Manipulation Casebook.

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    11 Dec 2021

    Two year old woke up screaming last night. Me, running in: what’s wrong honey? Him, still dreaming: I can’t make the soup! I’m just a baby!

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    17 hours ago

    This missing piece was part of the reason why I felt so compelled to write Meme Wars with my coauthors and . In the chapter on hate online, we discuss these dynamics as a socio-technical problem.

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    17 hours ago

    Lack of knowledge means that pregnancy, as a public health matter, becomes a ripe target for partisans promoting disinformation for political or financial gain, say ’s and .

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    May 14

    Here's an Albany editorial from last fall excoriating Stefanik for employing the great replacement theory in Facebook ads.

    Very saddened to hear the tragic news of fellow NYers in Buffalo. We are praying for the entire community and law enforcement at this time. 🙏
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  5. May 14

    the biggest question facing the future of the internet is: how can the design of the web be changed to disrupt this cycle? this cycle that turns grievances into media and media into ideologies and ideologies into violent deaths and media, a snowball rolling down the hills of hell

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  6. May 14

    i won't link to it, and please don't anyone link to it on the open web. but if you've followed this cycle you already know what it says. we know how this kind of redpilling works. we know how people get activated to commit mass murder based on racist beliefs.

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  7. May 14

    oh god i just actually read the manifesto and it's literally the cycle we have observed over and over again, and which we spell out in Meme Wars. As is the celebrating in the communities this murderer loved. The design of the internet makes this possible.

    This whole thread is worth reading, but this deserves a special call-out because the upshot is: this will happen again, and again, and again— until we stop it. My thread started with "Echoes of El Paso" but even that event was inspired by Christchurch, NZ
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  8. May 14

    the media spectacle is the point

    This is an example of the tragic cycle of redpilled violence: 1. indoctrination online thru the consumption of media and memes 2. the decision that "action must be taken." 3. the committing of heinous violence that is streamed so it can be media that redpolls others
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  9. May 14

    this kind of violence is inspired by ideological media like memes and then enacted to be a media spectacle of its own. in many of these cases the shooter has no real IRL friendships and hopes their violence will make them a hero or main character in the communities they admire

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  10. May 14

    people have called this kind of murder stochastic terrorism, aka violence inspired by a concerted and diffused campaign to incite line wolves, and our research into this for our book "Meme Wars" bears that out. these are not truly "lone wolves." they emerge from undercurrents.

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  11. May 14

    the manifesto, the choice of streaming venue, the white replacement memes, all of these things are nods to the communities that this person felt connected to, and a way to try to become a hero to them, in the same way that the christchurch shooter behaved

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  12. May 14

    This is an example of the tragic cycle of redpilled violence: 1. indoctrination online thru the consumption of media and memes 2. the decision that "action must be taken." 3. the committing of heinous violence that is streamed so it can be media that redpolls others

    New: Twitch spokesperson confirms the Buffalo shooter live-streamed the incident on the platform. Company says user has been suspended and that it is taking “all appropriate action” to prevent it from being rebroadcast.
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    3 Jun 2020

    The Director told Congress that the primary domestic terrorism threat in 2020 is from violent extremists motivated by racial or religious hatred – & the majority of these attacks in America "fueled by some type of white supremacy." This remains true.

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  14. May 14

    white replacement theory is part of a collection of anti-black white supremacist ideas that have grown popular in the online spaces where the red-pilled right gather and expose others to their beliefs. these ideas flourish online and then burst out into real world violence

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  15. May 14

    our upcoming book "meme wars" deals in depth with the "white replacement theory," a powerful motivating meme for many mass murderers. so many that our editors asked us to please only start two chapters with a mass shooting inspired by these ideas.

    The mass shooter in Buffalo espoused the “White Replacement Theory” — Per his manifesto that he posted on social media before killing at least 10 people at the Tops supermarket in a Black neighborhood Here’s his “check list” on Discord (credit )
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    May 13

    This is what’s known as a “no surprises” request for comment and it’s good reporting.

    Sounds like unbiased journalism to me... 🤣
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    May 14

    Day 80, все буде добре. We will win 💛

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    It is probably the first in history music performance at Chornobyl power station! Incredible workers - brave and dedicated to their job. Everything is gonna be alright! 🇺🇦
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    May 13

    Last year, exposed judges' hidden conflicts of interest, though disclosures were hard to get. A law in response to reporting by & me was signed by today that requires judges to promptlly post disclosures online

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    May 13

    Antiabortion activists are exploiting the pregnancy data gap to spread lies promoting their cause, as they have done for years, say ’s and .

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    May 13

    This is so good from and . "Citing false and misleading claims in a legal decision that eliminates abortion protections is only possible because of the... dearth of evidence-based, trustworthy information about pregnancy."

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    May 12

    completely, utterly, irrevocably

    Pregnancy radicalized me. Being a parent somewhat, too, but learning how little the medical community supports pregnant people, how dangerous it is to create new life, how painful and scary, how lonely and crazy making, it changed me forever.
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