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    1. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

      6/Once the screamer flags your tweet, you will be attacked by a bunch of throwaway accounts with 0 to 200 followers, often with lots of Nazi memes and styling. I call these the "soldiers".

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    2. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

      7/The soldiers will insult you, threaten you, call you a liar, spit various memes at you, etc. The usual Twitter stuff. I doubt their specific tactics actually matter much.

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    3. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

      8/The soldiers' goal is not to scare you or shut you up or rebut you or discredit you. The soldiers' goal is to *appear numerous* to people reading your tweets.

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    4. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

      9/By appearing numerous, the Twitter Nazis create the general impression that their movement and their ideas are mainstream. A big popular grassroots movement, rather than a fringe of a few thousand internet assholes and their pet bots.

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    5. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

      10/The screamer/soldier strategy allows Twitter Nazis to create the false impression of a bunch of normal people who just stumbled across your tweet and became outraged.

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    6. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

      11/By hopping from person to person and keeping up this shtick all day long, they can make normal people think half of America has gone Nazi. It's a force multiplier.

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    7. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

      12/This was an old tactic of the Mongols and other horse nomad armies, who would use clouds of dust or extra campfires to create the illusion of superior numbers.

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    8. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

      13/So how do you defend against these tactics? If you're like me and enjoy blocking Nazis, just block all the soldiers and giggle. But if you want to stop the attack, you must find and block the screamer.

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    9. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

      14/This can be difficult, especially if your tweet was very popular, and especially if you don't constantly monitor your mentions. The soldiers rarely include the screamer in their replies, in order to prevent you finding and blocking them.

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    10. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

      15/You can also just block Nazis en masse with apps like Twitter Block Chain, or by using block lists.

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      Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

      16/Sooner or later Twitter will tweak their interface to make this tactic less effective - for example, by letting you see a list of only quote-tweets, making it easy to find and block screamers. The Nazis will then think of a new tactic.

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        2. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

          17/Remember, you're dealing with a small but fanatic fringe with a lot of time and passion. Such a group will always find a way to cause destruction and chaos disproportionate to their numbers. Bad guys work full time.

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        3. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

          18/But the most important thing is to remember: The Nazis are few in number, and despite all their best efforts they are going to lose. (end)

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        4. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018

          Oh, random note: Mobs other than the Nazis, like the MAGA people (who are actually quite distinct from the Nazis) or the "dirtbag" leftists, feel much more organic. You can tell they have a lot more people than the Nazis, and their mobs are born from honest outrage.

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        2. Matunos  💉 💉 💉‏ @matunos 14 Jan 2018
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          muting doesn't keep them from showing up to others in the comments; blocking makes it harder for the "screamer" accounts to target you again

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        1. Tiresias, the Blind Seer of Thebes‏ @jedgarnaut 13 Jan 2018
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          If you use tweetdeck, you can do this, but only for one tweet at a time that I'm aware of.pic.twitter.com/K9iKpEfFzt

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        2. Benedict Evans‏Verified account @benedictevans 13 Jan 2018
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          Searching for twitter dot com / noahopinion will show only quote tweets of you

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        3. Noah Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 13 Jan 2018
          Replying to @benedictevans

          If my handle were "noahopinion", perhaps it would... ;-)

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        1. Devin Hermanson - Fight for Facts‏ @devinher 14 Jan 2018
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          So what does blocking the screamer do for you if they’ve already caused their damage? Does it detract from them algorithmically somehow? Will the same acct return for another attack otherwise?

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