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Mike Senters joins me to discuss the evolution of online information war tactics from Gamergate to the current battle in Springfield, Ohio, and how to counter them.

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Did Nothing Wrong Hot Take - Springfield Bombs

JD Vance defends baseless rumor about Haitian immigrants eating pets

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/vance-immigrants-pets-springfield-ohio-cnntv/index.html

What we still haven’t learned from Gamergate

https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/20/20808875/gamergate-lessons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws

Two distinct forms of isolation predict belief in conspiracy theories

https://www.psypost.org/two-distinct-forms-of-isolation-predict-belief-in-conspiracy-theories/

Robert Putnam Knows Why You’re Lonely

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/magazine/robert-putnam-interview.html

Elon Musk blinks first, bowing to pressure in Brazil to reopen X

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/22/musk-brazil-x/

JD Vance suggested the US's support for NATO could be pulled if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk's X

https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-nato-support-eu-regulation-x-musk-free-speech-2024-9

(Editor’s Note: This seems BAD.)

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Springfield, Ohio has become the newest battlefield in the information war, and now it's locked down over a series of bomb threats. In this Hot Take, I explain the issues with the word “Hoax” as it relates to this situation, and call out Donald Trump, JD Vance, Libs of TikTok, and the rest of the lying liars who used literal Neo-Nazi propaganda to put Springfield’s Haitian refugee community at risk.

Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

How a fringe online claim about immigrants eating pets made its way to the debate stage

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-fringe-online-claim-immigrants-eating-pets-debate-trump-rcna170759

More Than Half of Trump Voters Believe Haitians Are Eating Pets: Poll

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-republicans-haitian-migrants-eating-pets-poll-1954875

JD Vance defends baseless rumor about Haitian immigrants eating pets

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/vance-immigrants-pets-springfield-ohio-cnntv/index.html

Fact check: Ohio woman accused of eating cat is from Canton, not from Springfield

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2024/09/10/canton-woman-accused-of-eating-cat-not-haitian-from-springfield-ohio/75157976007/?itm_medium=recirc&itm_source=taboola&itm_campaign=internal&itm_content=ExploreMore

More truth about Springfield, Ohio: What has happened since the pet-eating rumors started

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2024/09/17/springfield-ohio-truth-latest-since-trumps-haitian-pet-eating-claims-fact-check/75260318007/

Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/neo-nazis-springfield-ohio-haitian-immigrants

Springfield, Ohio, cancels town festival after violent threats over Haitian resident

www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/springfield-ohio-cancels-town-festival-after-violent-threats-over-haitian-residents

Neo-Nazi who left Maine claims credit for ‘eating dogs and cats’ lies

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/09/16/aroostook/aroostook-culture/neo-nazi-christopher-polhaus-left-maine-takes-credit-eating-dogs-cats-lies/

Vote.gov

https://vote.gov

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Journalist Robert Silverman and I discuss the recent Russian scheme to funnel large piles of cash to Right Wing influencers, and the massive amounts of domestic money they receive for their bad takes.

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Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-indicted-covertly-funding-and-directing-us-company-published-thousands

Inside Tenet Media, the pro-Trump ‘supergroup’ allegedly funded by Russia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/09/05/tenet-media-russia-rt-tim-pool/

What Right-Wing Influencers Actually Said in Those Tenet Media Videos

https://www.wired.com/story/influencers-tenet-benny-johnson-tim-pool-russia-propaganda-videos/

How ‘Coward and Phony’ Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-coward-and-phony-tim-pool-became-one-of-the-biggest-political-youtubers-on-the-planet

Tim Pool Caught COVID—and Joe Rogan Offered to Pay His Medical Bills

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pool-caught-covid-and-joe-rogan-offered-to-pay-his-medical-bills

Tim Pool’s News Site Plagiarized the Mainstream Media He Claims to Hate

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pools-news-site-timcastcom-plagiarized-from-the-mainstream-media-he-claims-to-hate

The Long, Lucrative Right-wing Grift Is Blowing Up in the World's Face

https://www.splinter.com/the-long-lucrative-right-wing-grift-is-blowing-up-in-t-1793944216

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Reed Galen is a co-founder of the Lincoln Project and the founder of “The Union”, a single-issue, pro-democracy coalition dedicated to defeating Donald Trump and MAGA at the polls in November.

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Lincoln Project Announcement Regarding Reed Galen

https://lincolnproject.us/lincoln-project-announcement-regarding-reed-galen/

Join The Union!

https://jointheunion.us

Reed's Substack - "The Home Front"

Reed's new podcast, The Home Front

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Episode 102(originally released 10/05/2023) -We take a look at Chaya Raichik/Libs of TikTok's Permanent Record of Stochastic Terrorism.

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Boston Children's Hospital warns employees over far-right online harassment campaign

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/boston-childrens-hospital-warns-employees-far-right-online-harassment-rcna43376

Twitter account Libs of TikTok blamed for harassment of children’s hospitals

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/02/lgbtq-threats-hospitals-libs-of-tiktok/

Woman pleads guilty to making hoax bomb threat against Boston Children's

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/woman-pleads-guilty-to-making-hoax-bomb-threat-against-boston-childrens/3147446/

Libs of TikTok suspended from Twitter in wake of Children’s National Hospital audio recording

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/libs-of-tiktok-childrens-national-hospital/

Libs Of TikTok post instigates another round of bomb threats

https://www.losangelesblade.com/2023/09/25/libs-of-tiktok-post-instigates-another-round-of-bomb-threats/

How Libs of TikTok Became an Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Machine

https://www.them.us/story/libs-of-tik-tok-twitter-facebook-instagram-explained-childrens-hospitals-grooming

Libs of TikTok - Media Matters Archive

https://www.mediamatters.org/search?search=libs+of+tiktok

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Author Talia Lavin joins me to talk about her new book, “Wild Faith, how the Christian Right is taking over America”, about how this reactionary movement is a grave threat to democracy.

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The Sword and the Sandwich

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/culture-warlords/9781549127830/?lens=hachette-books

New York Times review of "Culture Warlords"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/books/review/culture-warlords-talia-lavin.html

Talia on Twitter

https://x.com/mobydickenergy

Moby Dick Energy - The Podcast

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Sociologist Karl Folk and I break down some of the inauthentic methods that the American right wing outrage machine uses, and suggest some solutions to prevent mainstream media complicity.

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Reflexive Control

https://militairespectator.nl/artikelen/reflexive-control

Handbook of Russian Information Warfare

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313423985_Handbook_of_Russian_Information_Warfare

What we still haven’t learned from Gamergate

https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/20/20808875/gamergate-lessons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws

Under Elon Musk, X is denying API access to academics who study misinformation

https://www.fastcompany.com/91040397/under-elon-musk-x-is-denying-api-access-to-academics-who-study-misinformation

The Case of Al Franken

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken

Tucker Carlson claims in book Fox News firing was part of $787.5m settlement

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/26/tucker-carlson-fox-news-firing-condition-dominion-settlement

Tommy Robinson moans luxury Cyprus holiday ruined after stoking riots from abroad

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tommy-robinson-cyprus-holiday-uk-riots-b2593729.html

This is the Twitter data that shows who's backing Tommy Robinson

https://www.wired.com/story/tommy-robinson-free-tommy-twitter-data

(And now this kind of data is unavailable. Funny, that.)

The Horrifying Fascist Manifesto Endorsed By J.D. Vance

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-horrifying-fascist-manifesto-endorsed-by-j.d.-vance

Process of Extermination - Review of "The Spanish Holocaust" by Paul Preston

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/books/review/the-spanish-holocaust-by-paul-preston.html

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The 2024 election has undergone a seismic shift in the last month. In this episode, I'm joined once again by Mike Senters to talk about the better world we can almost see over the horizon.

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TRUMP IS PLANNING FOR A LANDSLIDE WIN And his campaign is all but praying Joe Biden doesn’t drop out.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-campain-election-2024-susie-wiles-chris-lacivita/678806/

‘It’s over’: Democrats remain in panic over Biden’s reelection

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/12/biden-gop-election-wave-00167944

Trump survives assassination attempt at campaign rally, as it unfolded

https://apnews.com/live/election-biden-trump-campaign-updates-07-13-2024

Social media account with extremist comments could be tied to Trump gunman, FBI says

https://whyy.org/articles/fbi-trump-shooter-social-media-account-extremist/

DNW Podcast Episode 149 - Everybody Hates Vance

Biden drops out of 2024 race against Trump. Here's what we know about what happens now.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-happens-biden-steps-down-2024/

Biden explains why he dropped out of White House race

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l5n2gy74vo

Harris chooses Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as VP pick

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/harris-walz-vp/

Early Harris-Walz rallies feature big crowds, talk of ‘joy’ and unsolicited GOP counterprogramming

https://apnews.com/article/harris-walz-rallies-battleground-states-vance-trump-7da99aace01fec1c784fba27fdbce558

Democrats’ joy is unconfined as Harris and Walz take upbeat message on tour

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/11/kamala-harris-tim-walz-campaign-joy-election

Trump ally Steve Bannon surrenders to federal prison to serve 4-month sentence on contempt charges

https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-contempt-sentence-federal-prison-trump-77353a10250c36f77b2c1b7d188c5250

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“I think I’ve got a feeling I lost inside”

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There has never been a Vice Presidential nominee as universally disliked as 2024 Republican nominee J.D. Vance. In this episode, I lay out some of the reasons he's so unpopular with so many people,

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Everyone Hates J.D. Vance: Poll

https://newrepublic.com/post/184438/jd-vance-popularity-brutally-embarrassing-hit

J.D. Vance: Pregnancies from rape should go to term even if they're 'inconvenient'

https://www.rawstory.com/news/jd-vance-abortion-2668861499/

Vast majority of Republicans support abortion exceptions for rape, incest and mother's health

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/vast-majority-republicans-support-abortion-exceptions-rape-incest-moth-rcna52237

JD Vance Is An Investor In A Far Right Video Platform Filled With Neo-Nazi Content

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/jd-vance-is-an-investor-in-a-far-right-video-platform-filled-with-neo-nazi-content

Read J.D. Vance’s Violent Foreword to Project 2025 Leader’s New Book

https://newrepublic.com/article/184393/jd-vance-violent-foreword-kevin-roberts-project-2025-leader-book

Inside the powerful Peter Thiel network that anointed JD Vance

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/28/jd-vance-peter-thiel-donors-big-tech-trump-vp/ 

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

Peter Thiel’s midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt America’s democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/15/peter-thiel-who-is-he-republican-donor-tech-entrepreneur

The Education of a Libertarian

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/

J.D. Vance Endorsed Book That Calls Progressives “Unhumans” and Praises Jan. 6 Rioters

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/jd-vance-unhumans-book-jack-posobiec-alt-right-january-6/

Jack Posobiec's Extremist File - SPLC

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jack-posobiec

How the Mainstream Right Developed a Soft Spot for Francisco Franco

https://jacobin.com/2023/04/mainstream-right-soft-spot-francisco-francisco-franco-wwii-conspiracy-paranoia-antisemitism-anti-communism

Spain criminalises support for Franco in bid to heal divisions

https://theweek.com/news/world-news/europe/953559/spain-criminalises-suspport-franco-crackdown-dictators-legacy

JD Vance suggests VP picks don’t matter

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/02/jd-vance-vp-picks-00172526

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In this episode, I'm joined by Sociologist Karl Folk. We analyze the tumultuous week that was in American politics, and talk about the absolute insanity of Trump picking JD Vance as his running mate.

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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

Unreal: Living In the post truth world.

https://www.instituteofunreality.com/

The Nefarious Figures Behind the Far-Right Who Predate Trump

https://www.splinter.com/the-nefarious-figures-behind-the-far-right-who-predate-trump

Trump and Harris enter final 100-day stretch of a rapidly evolving 2024 race

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/28/politics/trump-harris-election-100-days/index.html

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

J.D. Vance Endorsed Book That Calls Progressives “Unhumans” and Praises Jan. 6 Rioters

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/jd-vance-unhumans-book-jack-posobiec-alt-right-january-6/

J.D. Vance has made it impossible for Trump to run away from Project 2025

https://www.vox.com/politics/362917/jd-vance-project-2025-book-kevin-roberts-trump

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