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Medievalist, digital humanist, intersectional feminist. She/her/hers.

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    1. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

      Anatomy of Disinformation (Academic, small-scale ecosystem style) A Long, long Thread. 1/

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    2. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

      I have mostly been away from Twitter this week b/c personal/family/work stuff including looming work deadlines, end of semester teaching/meetings/etc., and now I am managing not just childcare, but eldercare, so I literally am living the Gen-X sandwich life. 2/

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    3. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

      I am having to write this thread while still dealing w/ all this b/c apparently the way to stir up the premodern pot is to somehow announce that I am “bullying” or “harassing” someone when there is no evidence at all for it. 3/

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    4. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

      So this thread is a dissection of how digital disinformation campaigns happen and also what it’s like for me, as an academic, to be the focus of disinformation in relation to white supremacists/fascists outside in the larger networks involved in the US and also w/in academia. 4/

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      Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

      This is @ the nuances of specific academic field ecosystems & how that works online. This is also about digital literacy & actually understanding that academics, particularly white ones, seem unwilling to stop & critically ask some questions 5/

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        2. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          about why racist/gendered stereotypes continue to be the go-to explanation for some of this disinformation campaigns and why they believe that rather than to actually do some good digital literacy practices like check for evidence, etc. 6/

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        3. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          Academics are not immune to disinformation campaigns. White academics must consider how to research evidence, evaluate their sources, and do what we ask our students to do in relation to digital literacy before they go w/ the racist/gendered stereotypes as the explanation. 7/

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        4. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          I am and have been for several years a target of the white supremacist/fascists both in the wider world and within my field. Yes, medieval studies has a huge white supremacy/fascist problem. 8/

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        5. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          In fact, there is a group (100ish) who hang out in an open social media space w/ known white supremacist who calls Milo my best buddy, wrote for Breitbart, interviewed J. Kessler after Charlottesville (on the anniversary in fact) on podcasts. Read here 9/:https://bit.ly/3nGPz3F 

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        6. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          It’s pretty impossible not to call that pretty entwined with the white supremacist/fascist US machinery that has been so front and center of our politics for the last 5 years. I have called them the “alt-medieval” in publication 10/:https://bit.ly/35MLCEy 

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        7. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          One person who is part of the “alt-medieval” & a digital harasser which I have outlined the early moves of this in this Society of Classical Studies newsletter (he has done way more now) is the person who was outed as “Gay Girl from Damascus” 11/ https://classicalstudies.org/about/scs-newsletter-september-2017-medieval-studies-and-harassment ….

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        8. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          I mention that since apparently this all started with some idea of “unmasking” someone in early modern who has written exactly to explain what is going on here 12/:https://sydneeisanelf.medium.com/for-my-father-2451b2367fac …

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        9. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          As Sydnee has asked people not to take this further, I am respecting her wishes though I will point out the people who were attempting this “unmask” were white women. They seem to be angry that it did not have traction & the premodern BIPOC scholars did not follow them. 13/

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        10. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          So let’s talk about Disinformation. What is the disinformation about me in relation to the white supremacists/fascists in medieval studies & publicly. Milo used a 13,000 word hit piece about me in 2018 to try to reboot his media empire. [Middle Rages, google it] 14/

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        11. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          The gist of that goes back to what my medieval studies chief harasser at the U of Chicago did in round 1 in 2017 [discussed in the article "What's with Knights and Nazis." The alt-medieval disinformation line about me follows some of these tenets. 15/

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        12. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          1. I have never published 2. I am a bully & harasser 3. I am actually a white supremacist. It very much follows a version of what Ahmed writes about “naming the problem & becoming the problem” & what happens to BIWOC when they do this but w/ a stochastic violence scale-up 16/

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        13. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          Point 1. “I have never published anything”—this was a disinformation point that circulated publicly & in academia amongst medievalists. Apparently, medievalists or academics cannot google. The sign that I did not “publish anything” is that I do not post my c.v. 17/

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        14. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          If U know how the far right doxxes & goes after people (read Zoe Quinn’s Crash Override or Femtechnet) then you do not post a c.v. so that these far-right swarms come for you, your info, & your collaborators. But yes, you can find what I have published by doing a search. 18/

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        15. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          Point 2. I am a “bully and harasser.” This is a classic racist/gendered tactic that has been discussed regularly here. If WOC say, let’s be antifascist & work on antiracism, critique white women suddenly they are called “bullies and harassers.” 19/

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        16. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          You can read Mikki Kendall’s book here for a whole discussion of this that started online w/ #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen in 2013 20/: https://www.amazon.com/Hood-Feminism-Notes-Movement-Forgot/dp/0525560548/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mikki+kendall&qid=1605904153&sr=8-1 …

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        17. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          This is a regularly happens in my life especially w/ white women. I say nothing, do nothing, respond not at all (the advice that senior folk give me) but I am still roped into some “issue” and called a “bully” or “harasser” even when it has nothing to do w/ me. 21/

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        18. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          Point 3. “She is a white supremacist.” I am a regular target of violent white supremacists. But apparently this does not matter b/c I must be a white supremacist even though these folks hang out w/ ppl who say Milo is her best friend, podcast violent white supremacists. 22/

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        19. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          So we have come to this point because of Disinformation issues. I want folks to read this and understand the 3Ds of Disinformation: Detect, Document, and Debunk. @BostonJoan's piece 23/:https://medium.com/political-pandemonium-2020/how-civil-society-can-combat-misinformation-and-hate-speech-without-making-it-worse-887a16b8b9b6 …

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        20. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          OK. I need to add a second thread to this, so coming back soon. 24/

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        21. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          Unfortunately we are going to have to do this b/c the disinformation about me in this case is not going away & apparently M*stress Sn*w has now intersected w/ the “alt-medieval” folks which means this will mushroom & I will have to deal with potential security issues. 25/

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        22. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          I am doing this as a form of 3. “Pre-Bunking”. I am the “wedge issue” in this disinfo. campaign b/c “In order for a lie to take hold in public discussion, audiences usually have to encounter it numerous times.” As I have said the alt-medieval have been at this since 2017. 26/

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        23. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          So M*stress Sn*w is using me as “wedge issue” & upholding the white supremacist disinformation. In this instance, b/c M*stress Sn*w seems to have now intersected w/ the alt-medieval, 27/

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        24. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          we have reached a stage where I cannot ignore it & it is affected others who have are public about antiracism in medieval studies since this usually triggers some potential violent targeting. It’s been a week, and M*stress Sn*w seems to want to continue to fuel this fire. 28/

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        25. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          “Media manipulators & disinformation agents are not as numerous as once thought. However, manipulators are having an outsized impact on the news media b/c they employ a diverse set of tactics & do whatever it takes to keep their campaign alive.” 29/

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        26. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          Disinformation: I am attacking M*stress Sn*w, “bullying and harassing” her, and am a “white supremacist.” 30/pic.twitter.com/seg7i9ybPX

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        27. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          Document: In this instance, I have not even said anything. I have not tweeted, responded, said a thing about this on here. But apparently M*stress Sn*w decided that I was “harassing” her even when there is no evidence at all & everyone can find that by looking at my TL. 31/

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        28. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          Also, let's debunk more disinformation. I have not "reported her tweets" (she can ask Twitter, though I doubt they will tell her) & "called up people's employees." The medieval white supremacists targeting me can't show evidence that I have done this b/c there is no evidence. 32/

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        29. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          Debunk:There are no “receipts” anywhere. But apparently you should go ahead & believe the disinformation b/c it’s easier than doing the digital literacy work to check or wonder why this terminology & what it says @ how much racialized/gendered stereotypes are easier to repeat.33/

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        30. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          As she seems to be happy to share screen shots, there is no evidence of me doing this & erasing either b/c someone would have screen shot it. But I am the “harasser” on here even though I have not tweeted, said, responded to a thing. 34/

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        31. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 20 Nov 2020

          “She is a white supremacist.” I expect by now by watching our politics for the last 4 years, we’ve seen the moves to this particular play. It’s the same move as the “antifascists are the violent ones, not the white supremacists w/ guns” etc. 35/pic.twitter.com/donWFMz8gZ

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