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Twitter Suspends Account That Helped Ignite Teen MAGA Controversy

Posted on 1/22/19 at 12:22 am
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
111498 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 12:22 am
CNN

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The account, with the username @2020fight, was set up in December 2016 and appeared to be the tweets of a woman named Talia living in California. "Teacher & Advocate. Fighting for 2020," its Twitter bio read. Since the beginning of this year, the account had tweeted on average 130 times a day and had more than 40,000 followers


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McDonagh said he found the account suspicious due to its "high follower count, highly polarized and yet inconsistent political messaging, the unusually high rate of tweets, and the use of someone else's image in the profile photo."

Molly McKew, an information warfare researcher who saw the tweet and shared it herself on Saturday, said she later realized that a network of anonymous accounts were working to amplify the video.


Russians?
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
69251 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 12:26 am to
I will die of laughter if Russians pushed the initial, falsely edited video.
Posted by Azkiger
Member since Nov 2016
21455 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 12:30 am to
Lots of blue check mark accounts need to be banned over their reaction to this. Wood chippers, doxing teens, punching teens in the face, etc.
This post was edited on 1/22/19 at 12:32 am
Posted by jeffsdad
Member since Mar 2007
21368 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 12:54 am to
for 2 days probably
Posted by wmr
North of Dickson, South of Herman's
Member since Mar 2009
32518 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:01 am to
So a Leftist Twitter account is suspended and it makes CNN?

Holy shite.

First, there are hundreds, if not thousands of Leftist Twitter accounts, many with blue checks, who called for violence against these kids. They are still active.

Second, Conservative Twitter accounts are banned left and right for far less.

I fricking hate @jack and CNN.
Posted by SlapahoeTribe
Tiger Nation
Member since Jul 2012
12079 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:03 am to
quote:

quote:

a network of anonymous accounts were working to amplify the video.
Russians?
Did someone say Russians?
Posted by Uncle Stu
#AlbinoLivesMatter
Member since Aug 2004
33658 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:36 am to
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an information warfare researcher who saw the tweet


this term is fascinating

A propagandist? Noooo, she's an "information warfare researcher"

...........the left is astounding
Posted by LosLobos111
Austere
Member since Feb 2011
45385 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 1:39 am to
Kathy Griffin should be banned right now

There should be zero tolerance for doxxing or calling for it
Posted by wmr
North of Dickson, South of Herman's
Member since Mar 2009
32518 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 2:19 am to
@jack is a Leftist, and Leftists do not apply standards equally, ever.

Remember, kids: Commies Aren't People. People have souls and consciences. Commies don't.
Posted by TenWheelsForJesus
Member since Jan 2018
6459 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 2:31 am to
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Russians?


More likely to be the dems that admitted to doing the same thing in Alabama.
Posted by FairhopeTider
Fairhope, Alabama
Member since May 2012
20758 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 5:20 am to
A lot of people on the Left are to blame over this but it wouldn’t shock me if the Russians initially pulled the trigger on this one.

Twitter/Social Media is ripe for instigators, foreign or domestic, to start shitstorms like this.
Posted by Wednesday
Member since Aug 2017
15396 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 6:05 am to
I want these kids to hire Hulk Hogan’s Lawyer and sue the ever loving shite out of Twitter, CNN, MSNBC, Kathy Griffin, Allyssa Milano, that movie producer guy with the wood chipper post, Individual news anchors who said things like the kid has a punchable face, the Indian with the drum and whatever fricking activist organization he works for and any other a-hole that used a public platform to ruin the lives of a bunch of boys doing nothing other than dancing along to a drum beat.

I hope every single one of them has to provide every tax return, medical record, sales receipt, email and piece of porn they’ve ever looked at and production discovery of the information is ordered to take place on a Twitter. I hope They sit there while every single solitary person they inadvertently insulted from childhood and the first person who dumped them is deposed on national television while they have to sit there and relive the experience wearing only cotton underwear.

I’d love to see a few other heretofore anonymous Twitter users cherry picked as defendants. Let’s use that information superwarrior that CNN quoted to find some assholes that made some good Nazi Quotes about Sandmann so that their lives could be completely deconstructed and they could face the daily risk of financial ruin for trying to do this to a child who committed the only sin of wearing a hat associated with the President of the United States.

That may be enough. Suspending a fricking Twitter Account is not enough. The best apology is changed behavior.

And in a week when each of these assholes is continuing to defame people they have never even met because Hillary Clinton lost the election, we will realize those apologies are hollow.

No. It is not excusable because orange man bad.
Posted by MissyTiger
Member since Nov 2018
538 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 6:11 am to
Anybody who pays attention to the insane ramblings of a leftist Twitter account has a skull full of mush.
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
146561 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 6:27 am to
I would more bet it was prog bots. The kind that the rent a mob place hires.
This post was edited on 1/22/19 at 6:28 am
Posted by jimmy the leg
Member since Aug 2007
34013 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 6:41 am to
quote:

but it wouldn’t shock me if the Russians initially pulled the trigger on this one. 


Nope, exacerbate via bots (paid?)...sure.
Start...nope.
The lunatic fringe know commonly as "the left" imitiated this imho. I can't believe how extreme the Democrats as a whole have become in my lifetime.
Posted by EZE Tiger Fan
Member since Jul 2004
50240 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 6:46 am to
The kids have a lawyer. Follow him on Twitter.

He has personally been tweeting to others outside of this one account. Twitter has a LONG way to go as MANY blue checkers were still, as of last night, denying the new video and still calling for violence against the kids and parents. A few pols on the left are still pushing the lie, even though their lawyer is tweeting them.

The lawyer is ROBERT BARNES.

He took on the kid's case for free.

That's how much of a slam dunk this is.
Posted by gthog61
Irving, TX
Member since Nov 2009
71001 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 6:57 am to
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I would more bet it was prog bots. The kind that the rent a mob place hires.



or the kind posting drivel like "Kamala Harris getting same racist treatment from GOP that Obama did"?

that kind?
Posted by idlewatcher
County Jail
Member since Jan 2012
78914 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 6:59 am to
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He took on the kid's case for free.

That's how much of a slam dunk this is.


Easy money indeed. They will settle out of court though
Posted by oogabooga68
Member since Nov 2018
27194 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:23 am to
I started a thread, but no responses to the question: Can these kids sue Twitter itself for providing a platform for the hate and threats coming from the Left?

Twitter responds by banning some nobody, yet Kathy Griffin, Alyssa Milano, Wheeler Walker have active accounts?
Posted by FairhopeTider
Fairhope, Alabama
Member since May 2012
20758 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 7:30 am to
quote:

Nope, exacerbate via bots (paid?)...sure.
Start...nope.
The lunatic fringe know commonly as "the left" imitiated this imho. I can't believe how extreme the Democrats as a whole have become in my lifetime.


I don't disagree one bit. I think there are forces out there, that find stories like this one and amplify the hell out of it in order to stoke divisions.

Of course it helps when one side is perpetually ready to ignite over the supposed outrage of the moment.

I'm not saying the Left is innocent here. Not in the least bit. Its sickening what they've done.
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