There are mercifully few overlaps between my current remit to study scams/fraud and my prior work studying extremism. Leave it to GiveSendGo to fill that gap, enabling one "Mike Smith" to solicit for a Kirk fundraiser from bustling "Singapore, IN" - a metro so busy it needs a 6 digit zip code

Oh, I see the NYT has a feature on Nick Fuentes today? A few years ago, Fuentes was basically irrelevant outside of a very narrow audience. Then Musk let him back on Twitter, Rumble verified him, and other media influencers (like Alex Jones) amplified him. From @megansquire.bsky.social:

Google's AI-generated info panel 🙃 I guess I've been called worse, but not by such a powerful entity

"It could block state tax laws on online commerce, software-as-a-service businesses, sales of tech products and services, rideshare apps, food and grocery delivery apps, data center property taxes, sector-specific excise taxes, and other activities [involving] the sale or use of tech."

"The CAO listed ... Wickr ... as acceptable substitutes for WhatsApp, recommending that staff pick one of these instead." If you ever suspected the government has time travel tech, here is the proof you've been waiting for. (Wickr was discontinued in 2023) www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Job Opportunity: GPAHE is seeking a Research Analyst to help monitor far-right extremism worldwide. This fully remote role involves in-depth research, writing, and data work on global hate movements. Applicants outside the U.S. are encouraged to apply. Apply here:

This is the guy whose Dlive platform was used by hundreds of extremists in the 2020-2021 timeframe to fundraise and plan in the run-up to J6.

Based on @megansquire.bsky.social's research, looked at the spread of the killer's video last year, and discovered that the year-on-year spread of the video is exponentially greater, & in ways that completely escape domestic oversight, policing, & policy in NZ. sanjanah.wordpress.com/2024/06/27/t...

More detail in this blog post: conspirator0.substack.com/p/spam-in-th...

@megansquire.bsky.social's heroic work analyzing online hate group data is a must-follow for anyone interested in social media, hate speech, online organization, and data analytics. I'll put this BBC One podcast in queue now, wherein Megan discusses her Telegram work. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

We have a new Digital Threat Report out today - it covers Telegram's recommendations feature called "similar channels" and exactly how it works. www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

One is from WI: "Exposed author data matches that of Taylor “TJ” Sellnow of Wisconsin. “Cardinal Pritchard” writes articles calling LGBTQ+ Pride Month parade attendees “pedos” and deriding transgender people as a mutilation cult."

the babylon bee left online supposedly “sensitive information” about its writers who want to remain anonymous, and is now upset at the SPLC for finding it

The SPLC discovered that a sister site for the anti-LGBT and anti-immigrant "humor" publication The Babylon Bee has been accidentally leaking a bunch of info about its anonymous authors. A number of real names are revealed in this report. www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

The most shocking info from this is neither the Babylon Bee nor it's authors answered the request for comment with one of the three jokes they know. Fantastic work from the SPLC.

Babylon Bee Authors Exposed: An SPLC investigation into the Babylon Bee and its sister sites has unmasked the names of 14 pseudonymous authors responsible for anti-LGTBQ+, racist, and anti-immigrant articles on the Bee sites, as well as several scam businesses formerly run by Bee owner, Seth Dillon.

Here's a little story my colleague Creede Newton and I wrote about some shenanigans going on at The Babylon Bee and sister site "Not the Bee" - Seth Dillon has a shady past and a poorly programmed website www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

Here’s a little ditty we wrote about what our new Project 2025 overlords have been getting up to www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

NEW: The bigoted right often enlists anti-trans activist Quentin Van Meter as an expert on trans healthcare. In court docs, Van Meter appears to have misrepresented his credentials, claiming active faculty status to schools that no longer staff him: www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

My 3Q crypto and finance report - $23m in money funneled from Vanguard, Fidelity, other "donor advised funds" to hate & extremist groups, $76k in BTC from a megadonor to an unlikely Cville-era recipient, and a Nazi clown rakes it in while in federal custody. Enjoy! www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

we have another SPLC-er on this platform now. please welcome @megansquire.bsky.social

Here's our report on another coordinated cryptocurrency donation campaign - someone sent over $200k to several extremist groups including Ammon Bundy's People's Rights Network. With Jason Wilson https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/05/10/extremists-receive-large-ethereum-cryptocurrency-donations