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01) Let's have a nice thread about Proud Boys.
First, I am glad the FBI interdicted a plot by their former leader, Jason Lee Van Dyke, to assassinate my attorney in Texas. https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-proud-boys-lawyer-jason-lee-van-dyke-allegedly-plotted-assassination-of-rival-court-docs-say
First, I am glad the FBI interdicted a plot by their former leader, Jason Lee Van Dyke, to assassinate my attorney in Texas. https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-proud-boys-lawyer-jason-lee-van-dyke-allegedly-plotted-assassination-of-rival-court-docs-say
02) I'd also like to congratulate James McGibney on his return to relevance - he's been acting as an informant for the FBI, and this time there are receipts to prove it. https://www.slideshare.net/NealRauhauser/2018-0612walkerwicevichaffidavit
03) We just published a snapshot of the Proud Boys Twitter network from right before the 2018 purge and one of the survivors of last week. These go out on the @SocNetAnalysts mailing list as citable data on @figshare
https://figshare.com/projects/Proud_Boys_Twitter_mid-2018_and_Sep_2020_/90158
https://figshare.com/projects/Proud_Boys_Twitter_mid-2018_and_Sep_2020_/90158
04) The 2018 network is quite dense, 132 accounts with nearly 43,000 friends and followers. Our GML file has been enriched with some composite metrics that facilitate layout in @Gephi.
05) The 2020 network is much easier to visualize - just sixteen survivors from Twitter's purge on 2020-08-10. We added @enrique_tarrio to illuminate key accounts.
06) Curiously, Tarrio's account has no relationship with any of the sixteen survivors.
07) But if we focus on the accounts linking Tarrio to the survivors, we get a manageable set of just 81 total to examine.
08) Here is a text list of those 81 accounts. https://gist.github.com/NetwarSystem/9243f3f9d1722b91e39f80f6a19b150d
09) Took some time with those 81 core accounts. There are three main hubs and a number of smaller ones. Text name size shows which ones are important.
