Caroline Orr

@RVAwonk

. Behavioral Scientist. Peripatetic. Reporter focusing on disinformation & the rise of hate. Also find me & .

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Joined January 2014

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    14 Aug 2017

    Taking down Confederate monuments is not erasing history - it's declaring that some parts of history belong in a museum, not on a pedestal.

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    15 hours ago

    Barely 6 months after he credited Trump's tax cuts for creating a new economic boom, My Pillow boss Mike Lindell is laying off 150 employees

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    9 hours ago

    No one knows where this drift into right wing populism and demagoguery will end, but end it will one day. Then Britain will have to look to reform many of the institutions that failed us. And the BBC will be top of that list. via

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    7 hours ago

    1) Khayria al-Bayoush and Mohammed al-Jawhar (displaced from town) have been killed, and 20 civilians were injured. The attack was carried out with a high-explosive missile and cluster bombs by the regime forces on town in countryside.

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    5 hours ago

    As the geneticist Professor Steve Jones explained in a 2011 report for the BBC Trust, an “over-rigid” obsession with “due impartiality” could give “undue attention to marginal opinion”.

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  6. 5 hours ago

    NEW: White House officials asked at least twice in the past month for key witness Don McGahn to say publicly that he never believed Trump obstructed justice, per two people briefed on the requests. McGahn declined.

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    5 hours ago

    Incredible deep dive into the alt-right by Caroline Orr. What a fantastic debut, . Everybody else: please support the journalism we need so desperately now.

    In my first piece for , I wrote about how Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars was evading Facebook's recent ban by repackaging his content under a new brand name ("Summit News"). I asked Facebook about it. The new page is gone now.
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    6 hours ago

    National Observer is tracking disinformation, social media manipulation, and the spread of hate online. We'll be keeping a close watch on things, but we need all the eyes and ears we can get, so if you see examples of this type of activity, please let us know.

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  9. 5 hours ago

    Joseph Jordan, aka “Eric Stiker,” is among the most prolific propagandists in today’s white supremacist movement. He’s written over 700 posts on the neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer, appeared on hundreds of far-right podcasts, & marched at Unite the Right. And he’s still on Twitter.

    Update: Jordan changed his Striker handle to with a 0 because he's so scared of you reporting him. He's also RTing a conspiracy theorist falsely claiming he didn't Seig Heil. Silliness. Here's some of the stuff he posted from one of his old handles:
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    6 hours ago

    Facebook removes far-right page linked to Infowars after National Observer investigation via @

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  11. 6 hours ago

    In my first piece for , I wrote about how Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars was evading Facebook's recent ban by repackaging his content under a new brand name ("Summit News"). I asked Facebook about it. The new page is gone now.

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    May 9

    Climate denial. Anti-vaccination. Hate speech. Fake news polarizes and distracts people from focusing on real issues. Support National Observer's efforts to report on campaigns in Canada at or give us a call at 604 569 3321.

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    8 hours ago

    Subscribe to to get access to coverage by about bots, trolls and efforts to spread in .

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  14. 7 hours ago

    NEW: The House Ways and Means Committee has authorized a subpoena ordering Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig to turn over President Trump’s tax returns by next Friday at 5 p.m

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    May 9

    Lt. Gov. Of Alabama straight up says their state wide abortion ban is designed to overturn and credits Donald Trump with remaking the judiciary to achieve this goal.

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  16. May 9

    This is a horrific story. A dozen former & current employees at Santa Rosa Correctional Institution describe prisoners being beaten & starved by staff, and racial intimidation (incl. “mock” nooses) being used to threaten black employees to stay quiet.

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    May 9

    Well, this is all very awkward for . (Read 's whole thread for more).

    omfg. "One of the [extremist] group’s indicted leaders, Jeffrey Knox, listed his job as 'stomp down Honky.' Facebook then auto-generated a 'stomp down Honky' business page." 5/
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  18. May 9

    Singapore just passed new "fake news" legislation that allows the govt to force corrections, remove content, and block webpages deemed to be disseminating falsehoods "against the public interest" or to undermine public confidence in the government.

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    May 9

    Facebook algorithms risk enemy combatant status if they keep getting caught building pages for Al Qaeda

    holy crap. A new whistleblower complaint to the SEC shows that Facebook is auto-generating extremist propaganda, including over 30 auto-generated pages for white supremacist groups and at least one auto-generated page for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
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  20. May 9

    The FBI is now investigating 850 possible domestic terrorists across the US, including many white supremacists and anti-government extremists, according to the head of the FBI’s counterterrorism division.

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  21. May 9

    This is a crucial point from the National Whistleblower Center: "Facebook has argued it is not a content provider, failing to disclose that it is generating terror and hate content." 7/ ()

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