When President Donald Trump last week encouraged his supporters to “fight” and march toward the Capitol, it was not unexpected for anyone to follow his rhetoric. And when his supporters acted on the president’s words and stormed the Capitol, it was not unexpected that those who looked at the extremist corners of the Internet.
For years, the highest excessive versions of trumpism have flourished on internet and social media discussion forums. Uncontrolled, the violent logo of nationalism that led to the assault on the Capitol was largely incubated in The_Donald of Reddit, a now-banned sub-reddit. which housed the president’s maximum number of online faithful.
At the reconstituted forum, now housed under Arraywin’s rule, The_Donald members were allegedly concerned about making plans for the capitol attack and the anger that fueled national terrorists. A few days before the capitol was taken, a message gave the impression of the name “the maximum vital letter of January 6”. Form a REAL LINE around the Capitol and tunnels. “This message included a detailed diagram of Capitol Hill with the tunnels surrounding the complex highlighted.
Although they are now in another home, members and the public are similar to those of the time when it was Trumpworld’s top popular Internet community, with an audience addressing White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, Trump’s memes chief.
Subreddit started in the same way that maximum viral things begin on the Internet, with shitposting and memes, and in Trump, editors discovered a candidate who liked to post dog whistle memes from other depressing corners of the Internet. Trump made an AMA with subreddit in the summer of 2016), both of which have forged a symbiotic relationship.
From CNN logo GIFs being criticized to Rosie O’Donnell’s old tweets, Trump has raised the message of an organization of other people who, from the beginning, were at war with the mainstream. after the shooting in Orlando, spreading anti-Muslim propaganda on the cover, to an audience of millions of people.
The president wouldn’t use a computer, and he’s unlikely to scan Reddit himself. However, there has been sufficient evidence that Trump crusades and management staff stop at the site and that Trump amplifies the same incorrect lines of information as those discovered in The_Donald In June 2016, the then director of virtual media for Trump’s crusade, Brad Parscale, said he scaled up the subreddit “daily. “Politico later reported that the Trump Tower war room team had been tracking the subreddit during the crusade.
The disinformation channel of The_Donald to presidential tweets is simple to detect, but also more vital than other people thought. Here’s an organization that worked more productively to eliminate the president, and when he saw and shared memes, it prompted them to keep trolling by opposing it.
In the months leading up to the 2016 election, subreddit has a haven for discussion. A former Trump Crusader told the Daily Dot, “At one point, he took a lot of tucker Carlson stuff,” adding that Carlson’s writers frequented the site. .
An ex of the Daily Caller (the right-wing online page founded through Carlson) told the Daily Dot that they were in The_Donald, “every day,” adding that before the 2016 election, “The_Donald had influenced the conservative media. “Daily Caller was fired from state news firm Voice of America after Mediaite announced that he was posting racist jokes about under-reddit.
It’s simple to see how a perpetual motion device can explode someday, what it did last week at the Capitol. The key to this is the widespread false confidence that Trump had been robbed of the election. He came here from a playbook perfected through The_Donald. .
The habit of memes and The_Donald has been the subject of several peer-reviewed articles through an organization of professors who read sub-reddit along the marginal social network Gab, 4chan (QAnon’s first home) and Twitter. In a 2018 article titled “On the Origins of Memes in Fringe Communities,” they wrote professors from five schools, adding King’s College London, Boston University and University College London: “We believe that /pol/[4chan] particularly influences the meme ecosystem to publish a lot of memes, while The Donald is the most effective network for transmitting memes to marginal and classical Internet communities.
During an era from July 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017, the organization categorized 160 million photographs, subdivided them into KnowYourMeme groups, and ranked it as the most popular in The_Donald. The first access was “Donald Trump,” an organization that composes photographs of the But Memes have become temporarily mature to generate incorrect information and, equally importantly, arouse hatred.
Some of the memes that appear in the reference segment of the document come with a photo of Donald Trump as Perseus holding the head of Medusa, who is depicted as Hillary Clinton. Donald is also the main provider of “racism-related memes,” according to the newspaper.
Professor Jeremy Blackburn, an assistant professor at Binghamton University and one of the authors of On The Origins of Memes, an article he has studied The_Donald, 4chan and Gab, told the Daily Dot: The_Donald is like an evolutionary selection, so it is not. that what’s more or less voted on is that the craziest 4chan ever shows up The_Donald. This has something to decipher in the role The_Donald in the disinformation ecosystem: it is a center for exchanging conspiracy theories.
Blackburn’s highlights the deeper and deeper layers of incorrect information circulating on right-wing sites. Donald is the most docile of those sites and forum posts occasionally regurgitate fragments of incorrect information from more excessive places like 4chan. excessive incorrect information such as Holocaust denial (which is not unusual in 4chan) or accusations that the Chinese secretly chose Joe Biden to be able to take the organs of Americans, allowing him to thrive during Trump’s years on the edge of accessibility. . . and become a foreign trolling home.
Using the list of 944 accounts that Reddit announced in 2018 as suspected of links to the Russian Internet Research Agency, Blackburn’s organization also studied the activity of Russian and Iranian trolls in the ecosystem from 2015 to 2018 and discovered that The_Donald was the 13th most popular. subprogramme for trolling abroad. In this study, teachers wrote that their findings “underscore that Donald is an influential player in the data ecosystem and is probably exploited through trolls as a vector to transmit express data to other communities.
Essentially, the Trump administration was allowed to be intentionally manipulated through intentionally misleading memes, which it was pleased to spread around the world.
Professor Savvas Zannettou of Saarland University, who led several of the group’s articles, told the Daily Dot in unequivocal terms: “The subreddit_Donald was the incubator or amplifier of this incorrect information and it is like a front door. “
At the time Reddit banned The_Donald June, it had nearly 800,000 subscribers. The ban came here a year after it was quarantined for repeated policy violations. At the time, a Reddit spokesman said, “Recent behavior, adding threats against police and the public figures, is banned through our violence policy. “
Teachers also found that the new space reduced the number of new users and further increased the toxicity of the group.
Anticipating a ban, The_Donald moved into the domain toArraywin months ago. Compiling all presentations and comments on The_Donald. win between February 26, 2020 and June 24, 2020, the researchers found that those on the platform were publishing more and not “a significant accumulation of radicalization-related signals. “To achieve this conclusion, they compiled “repairing dictionaries”, words such as “trans”, “comie”, “socialist” and “diversity”, which probably appeared in The_Donald than other forums still hosted on Reddit.
Outside the confines of the mainstream of the Internet, everything has gotten worse and Trump’s direction analyzed it.
A former Trump crusader recently told the Independent that Trump was aware of online plots to provoke the typhoon at the Capitol, claiming that Trump’s social media team had “fingers on the pulse of everything that is happening [online] at Trumpworld,” adding the new Arraywin. Site.
And while America’s peak needs to lower the temperature, this is the case among Trump’s staunch supporters who publish by reading this. A few days after the riot, the same user who published the detailed map of the Capitol republished, writing: War, killed four of our own.