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This is what he learned.
Curious about where his trolls were getting their revisionist history lessons, Theo Wilson decided to go undercover. Theo Wilson decided to create a fake online persona so he could better understand white supremacist trolls. He spent months inside the echo chamber learning about why racism flourishes online.
After engaging in endless sparring matches in the comments section, Wilson began to notice something curious: His trolls seemed to speak a language unto themselves, one replete with the same twisted facts and false history. It was as if they had all passed through some “dimensional doorway,” arriving from an alternative universe where history, politics and commonly accepted facts had been turned inside out.
There was the idea that slavery was a form of charity that benefited enslaved Africans; that freed blacks owned more slaves than whites before the Civil War; that people of color make up the majority of those receiving aid from America’s safety-net programs; and that investor and philanthropist George Soros is funding protest movements like Black Lives Matter.
Curious about where his trolls were getting their revisionist history lessons, Wilson, 36, – an award-winning poet and actor from Denver – decided to go undercover in their world. In 2015, he started by creating a ghost profile named “Lucious25,” a digital white supremacist who appeared to be an indigenous member of the alt-right’s online echo chamber, he said.
Denver actor goes undercover online as white supremacist
:lamo Reminds me of this place from time-to-time; Superior ... yea Right :lamo
Wait ... watch them prove me right. :mrgreen:
Curious about where his trolls were getting their revisionist history lessons, Theo Wilson decided to go undercover. Theo Wilson decided to create a fake online persona so he could better understand white supremacist trolls. He spent months inside the echo chamber learning about why racism flourishes online.
After engaging in endless sparring matches in the comments section, Wilson began to notice something curious: His trolls seemed to speak a language unto themselves, one replete with the same twisted facts and false history. It was as if they had all passed through some “dimensional doorway,” arriving from an alternative universe where history, politics and commonly accepted facts had been turned inside out.
There was the idea that slavery was a form of charity that benefited enslaved Africans; that freed blacks owned more slaves than whites before the Civil War; that people of color make up the majority of those receiving aid from America’s safety-net programs; and that investor and philanthropist George Soros is funding protest movements like Black Lives Matter.
Curious about where his trolls were getting their revisionist history lessons, Wilson, 36, – an award-winning poet and actor from Denver – decided to go undercover in their world. In 2015, he started by creating a ghost profile named “Lucious25,” a digital white supremacist who appeared to be an indigenous member of the alt-right’s online echo chamber, he said.
Denver actor goes undercover online as white supremacist
:lamo Reminds me of this place from time-to-time; Superior ... yea Right :lamo
Wait ... watch them prove me right. :mrgreen:
