[Newsbot]

Title: Far-right groups may try to take advantage of pandemic, watchdogs warn
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2020-04-09 07:58:19
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

$1:

Perry said she is currently seeing online activity that falls under three main categories: conspiracy theories, anti-immigrant and xenophobic attitudes and so-called accelerationist rhetoric. Accelerationism, as conceived by the far right, is the idea of hastening the collapse of society, which would lead to a race war from which a white ethno-state would emerge.

$1:

"We saw ... as the conspiracy theories around COVID were really starting to emerge at the beginning of the year, suggestions that it had actually originated in a Canadian lab and was subsequently stolen by a Chinese person and brought back to China," said Jacob Davey, the far-right and hate crime lead for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) in the U.K.

That particular conspiracy theory was based on a distortion of a CBC News report and has been debunked.

Hmmmm.

[raydan]

I still believe it's the lizard people's fault.

[DrCaleb]

Might be the lizard people working with the Chi-com's at the Wuhan virus lab to spread the stolen Canadian plague.

[FieryVulpine]

The far-left's paranoia never ceases to amuse.

[stratos]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Might be the lizard people working with the Chi-com's at the Wuhan virus lab to spread the stolen Canadian plague.

You're in on it aren't you. How else would you know such details.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Might be the lizard people working with the Chi-com's at the Wuhan virus lab to spread the stolen Canadian plague.

[Freakinoldguy]

And here I thought the Russians had already beat them to punch when it came to spreading disinformation about the the virus?

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurit ... in-western

The ADL is doing a great job in keeping tabs on the assholes in the White Supremacist movement but, because pretty much anyone with an agenda, a computer and an audience can spread misinformation about the virus and cause discourse or outright hate there are likely alot more groups than just the White Supremacists and the Russians doing it for various reasons, none of which are good.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/12/hacke ... s-malware/

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/1 ... ire-127038

[DrCaleb]

FieryVulpine FieryVulpine:

The far-left's paranoia never ceases to amuse.

It's not paranoia if there is documentation.

[raydan]

Far-righties are as blind as bats.




See what I did there.

[N_Fiddledog]

There are Zoom trolls.

Some neo-nazi, new nation nationalist types have been taking advantage of the fact there are trolls.

The CBC, New York Times and other left wing propagandists would like to convince you that it this is an exclusive property phenomena of the right and a major spreading threat.

It's what progressives do. They find some small fringe activity from some small subsection of idiots, point and insinuate, "See! It's a big thing and they're all like that." It's a kind of bigotry.

The right could to the same thing here and it won't surprise me if some do eventually. I'm sure somebody can find far left Zoom trolls from Antifa, BLM, Extinction Rebellion or some other gathering of nincompoops slithering in the sewer fringe of the socialist left getting in on the Zoom troll conference bombing exploit.

[raydan]

Right on schedule, Fiddle proves my point.

[N_Fiddledog]

raydan raydan:

Right on schedule, Fiddle proves my point.

I missed it. Did you say somebody would make an obvious observation, because yeah, guilty, I guess. I'm one of the ones that still dares to do that.

It can be expected. Just like I know somebody is going to spit out another lame attempt at shut-uppery, naively ignoring another obvious fact. That never works.

[raydan]

Still proving my point.

[N_Fiddledog]

raydan raydan:

Still proving my point.

Still ignoring the obvious. Don't know what you thought your point was. Don't care.