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Alex Kaplan

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Senior Researcher @mmfa, focusing on social media misinfo/disinfo & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to [email protected]

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Robert Malone, who RFK Jr. has now appointed to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, suggested in a 2023 podcast appearance with Plandemic conspiracy theorist Mikki Willis that he's gotten "counsel" from Willis & was "very grateful" for that. mediamatters.org/media/4025990

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This piece tracking conspiracy content among Rumble's "editor pick" videos has been updated yet again with an “editor pick” video from a QAnon figure that claims that Trump "confirms Q+." (The QAnon community often uses the term Q+ to refer to Trump himself.)

This piece tracking conspiracy content among Rumble's "editor pick" videos has been updated yet again with an “editor pick” video from a QAnon figure that claims that Trump "confirms Q+." (The QAnon community often uses the term Q+ to refer to Trump himself.)
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On a Proud Boys-affiliated podcast late last month, Oath Keeper & J6 participant Jessica Watkins said that fellow J6er Jake Lang while they were in prison wanted her to sign a document saying "we're all seditionists & we need to declare war on the" U.S. government via a militia.

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Notable here: -Trump amplified an image with the QAnon phrase "nothing can stop what is coming." This is at least the 15th time on Truth Social he's amplified an image with that phrase. -Trump directly tagged a QAnon account, the 2nd time he's done so (first was in '22).

Notable here:

-Trump amplified an image with the QAnon phrase "nothing can stop what is coming." This is at least the 15th time on Truth Social he's amplified an image with that phrase.

-Trump directly tagged a QAnon account, the 2nd time he's done so (first was in '22).
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The Proud Boys have apparently announced on social media that "if the United States gets directly involved in the Israel-Iran conflict, the voters that voted for Trump because there was a hope that Trump was America First can no longer support Trump."

The Proud Boys have apparently announced on social media that "if the United States gets directly involved in the Israel-Iran conflict, the voters that voted for Trump because there was a hope that Trump was America First can no longer support Trump."
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On a Rumble podcast late last month, Peter McCullough, an anti-vax figure who has testified at multiple Senate hearings about vaccines, falsely claimed that vaccine hesitancy is "healthy" & said that "we should embrace vaccine hesitancy."

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On his Proud Boys-affiliated podcast channel yesterday, Enrique Tarrio suggested that going forward the Proud Boys "will be at every single [drag queen story hour] event nationwide" to "protest[]." (The Proud Boys have been at drag queen story hours in the past.)

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On a QAnon-affiliated podcast earlier this month, prominent anti-vax figure Lee Merritt claimed that Ukraine has been a "hub" for "adrenochrome," a reference to a QAnon-linked conspiracy theory.

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New: Trump confidant Laura Loomer — who was previously banned from Uber & Lyft — baselessly suggested that "Muslim Uber, Lyft, & taxi drivers would start coordinating attacks on non-Jews to carry out jihad under the administration of Zohran Mamdani." mediamatters.org/laura-loomer/r…

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Trump confidant Laura Loomer — who was previously banned from Uber & Lyft — baselessly suggested that "Muslim Uber, Lyft, & taxi drivers would start coordinating attacks on non-Jews to carry out jihad under the administration of Zohran Mamdani." mediamatters.org/laura-loomer/r…