Trump is just straight up retweeting QAnon accounts now, which has fully metastasized into the state-sponsored, weaponized disinformation I was afraid it might. It is a weapon of stochastic war intended to be used against soft targets
This is the true danger of disinformation and why I have been so frustrated with all the fact-checkers just fucking around with "fake news" stories. What we need to be fighting, loudly and clearly, is weaponized disinformation like this.
Facebook doesn't do shit about weaponized disinformation. They put little shields over "fake news" that are generally bullshit and random (allowing true disinfo to flourish unchecked) , then lie about limiting the reach of fake stories while their algorithms continue their jobs
And the only way to fight against weaponized disinfo, with what little tools we have available, is to speak truth boldly, loudly, and aggressively, with citations, and to get into the faces of those pushing it and point them out as liars in the public square and shame them.
Mockery and shaming are potent weapons. That's why assholes screech about "civility" and "free speech." They want to be able to say what they like and force the rest of us to accept it, which is neither civil nor free. I'll dance on their fucking graves.
Also, from my perspective as an anti-disinfo journalist and knowing what QAnon has already sparked (mass shootings, mail bombs, home-brewed armored cars at the Hoover Dam), this should be grounds for his immediate removal. It's a declaration of war -- against Americans.
I know it won't be, because his little toadies protect him and the enablers are high on their own supply as they fall all over themselves to justify whatever horrors they can. I see them. But this should be it, it should have been over the first time he started pandering to QAnon
They're a lot like cults because they are, deliberately formed to be as appealing as possible to a specific personality type -- which can be easily isolated and targeted using all that personality data and then flooded all over the web with crazy bullshit https://www.wired.com/story/online-conspiracy-groups-qanon-cults/
Oh and if you are concerned or scared reading this, if you're putting it all together for the first time and realizing we are in a world of shit because all the crazy, violent tweakers in this godforsaken country have been weaponized -- welcome to where I've been since 2016
We can stop this and make shit better but it will take effort, it will take us all speaking out loudly and clearly and NOT BACKING DOWN in the face of denials, lies, feigned indifference, and worst of all, high-profile media normalization. We have to keep going
And everyone who gaslit me about this and everything else I've been right about over the years, I hope you see this: Fuck you.
https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1248628297388433410
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