Please read this. It’s important to understand just how significant a role @YouTube plays in steering disillusioned young men (kids, even) into right wing indoctrination and extremism. And they’ll just keep doing it if we don’t constantly call them out.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage&mtrref=t.co …
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Nearly half of Gen Z spends more than 3 hours *a day* on YouTube. A few wrong clicks and they can be pulled into the funnel without realizing or having any frame of reference as to what’s happening. https://www.eab.com/daily-briefing/2018/08/30/47-percent-of-gen-zers-spend-3-plus-hours-daily-on-youtube …
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All the social progress in the world isn’t going to matter if the next generation of voters grew up being fed this stuff. And some of YouTube’s most prominent content creators are actively pushing them towards it.https://www.newsweek.com/pewdie-youtube-nazi-t-series-racist-anti-semitic-youtuber-subscribers-1252695?amp=1 …
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But we don’t need to wait to see the effects this could have on society. We’re already seeing it, almost daily, tragedy after tragedy. It’s always the same story.http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/03/the-christchurch-shooters-manifesto-isnt-in-code.html …
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@gaywonk and others have said, there will always be con men and extremists. The problem is executives in tech—at Facebook, YouTube, & Twitter—who only see a bottom line and deny the immense responsibility on their shoulders. If they don’t understand it, they don’t deserve it.1 reply 19 retweets 64 likesShow this thread -
So what can we do? Stay informed. Stay engaged. Organize. Be vocal. And most of all, support candidates and policymakers who understand the urgency of this problem have a plan to address it. Like...
@ewarrenhttps://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big-tech-9ad9e0da324c …1 reply 19 retweets 26 likesShow this thread -
Also, it’s worth following the incredible people and organizations dedicated to raising awareness, deplatforming, & deradicalization—
@RightWingWatch@IwriteOK@EyesOnTheRight@socialistdogmom@slpng_giants@jaredlholt@nathanTbernard@VicBergerIV@AntiFashGordon to name a few.1 reply 0 retweets 18 likesShow this thread
Thank you!
And if I can be so bold, I’d suggest that people follow proper antifa groups, too, who have been tracking the far-right for longer than I have, and probably longer than most people on that list.
Like @NYCAntifa, @RoseCityAntifa, @afainatl, and @161EUG. 

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@beccalew of course! Her research is so important and great and she’s consistently targeted by the RW grifter mob these days but just keeps at it. She scares them, you love to see it1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
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