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    Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 19 Apr 2020

    that viral reddit post about "reopen[statename].com" being a part of a right-wing astroturf campaign to stop the lockdowns is wrong. i just talked to the guy who bought most of the domains. he's an "old hippie" who bought the urls to stop conservatives from getting them

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      2. Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 19 Apr 2020

        he told me he spent $4000 of his own money and went into credit card debt to do it. regardless, because of shoddy amateur reddit/twitter sleuthing, liberals mistaking him for a right-wing astroturfer have been harassing him nonstop for the last 24 hours

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      3. Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 19 Apr 2020

        to be clear, there does seem to be some kind of potentially astroturfed coordination, but he's not involved. even so, he's been harassed and doxxed. he's gotten so many calls he's had to turn his phone off. people keep trying to hack his accounts.

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      4. Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 19 Apr 2020

        anyway, i have story coming soon about it. in the meantime, some of you inept internet vigilantes need to chill out. osint is great, but don't make assumptions and then ruin people's lives over it

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      5. Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 20 Apr 2020

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        the story is here:https://twitter.com/alibreland/status/1252302129571794944 …

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        new: a small business owner who said he was trying to fight against right-wing protestors trying reopen the economy got caught in the crossfire of shoddy internet sleuthing and an ensuing harassment campaign accusing him of astroturfing https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/reopen-liberate-urls/ …
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      2. Doris O‏ @dorisovotes 19 Apr 2020
        Replying to @alibreland

        Thanks. I've been saying that those URLs were bought but no websites set up for the past 24+ hours. Glad someone else looked into it.

        2 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
      3. Doris O‏ @dorisovotes 19 Apr 2020
        Replying to @dorisovotes @alibreland

        and good to know it's just an old hippie. 🤣

        0 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
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      2. Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 19 Apr 2020
        Replying to @upstreamism @dalykyle

        agreed. some people on twitter deserve their share of the blame too though for botching this kind of stuff and treating unverified conjecture as fact

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      2. FishWoman: VOTE! It's important.‏ @FishWoman1970s 19 Apr 2020
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        This is so confusing though. If he bought them to stop conservative disinformation, but the disinformation is still being spread via these domains, didn't he just waste his money?

        1 reply 0 retweets 37 likes
      3. Ali Breland‏Verified account @alibreland 19 Apr 2020
        Replying to @FishWoman1970s

        the domains he bought have no content on them. there's a small amount of sites that fit this format (reopen[statename].com) that are pushing reopen the government narrative, but he doesn't own those. they're linked to other groups

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