For what it's worth, it's always worked this way in conservative circles: there's a public space where they're plenty extreme, and alongside that there's a well-organized private space where they really let their hair down.
For over a decade, since I began tracking it, there has been a rising, online extreme media landscape that now churns daily, but it is often on closed social media groups outside of media glare. It is in these spaces where unvarnished hate about Jewish people, racism is rampant.
— Robert Costa (@costareports) November 26, 2022
do the terms of service include an NDA?
I concur. Facebook, for instance, may look cleaner these days. But its Private/Secret groups pretty much do whatever they want, and no one can see all that who's not a group member. That's where all the trolls went, if you've been missing them. Report anything to the group admins, and they'll just block you if it's something they're OK with. Report it to Facebook, and not much is likely to happen; a temp suspension, maybe. And then Messenger is just as private as email. I suppose they are less than 100% complicit, but they're still a dandy platform for hate.
lol whatever, this guy hasn't been tracking anything other than what someone else wrote. The sources of all of this stuff aren't even remotely hidden. What he's talking about are channels not the source.
"closed social media" places are just where it goes after it starts.
If you've actually done any work in this field, you know this. Journalists are the living embodiment of Dunning Krueger sometimes.
Does he really think Cletus and Karen even know what Photoshop is or even what an image file is? No. But they can click "share" on Facebook.
And it's only growing...
https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1596208534777397248
Kinda like among LA city council members?
I presume the tweets refer to something more than the insidious "casual racism" that can permeate office gossip.
Even before then, conservatives circulated the same conspiracy crap and flat out racist messages in their email chains. As I said a while back, I had a boss who'd forward these things to me. Gave me great insight into the real world of behind the facade.
My cousin could truly receive money in their spare time on their laptop. their best friend had been doing this 4 only about 12 months and by now cleared the debt. in their mini mansion and bought a great Car.
That is what we do.. https://earningblue.blogspot.com/
"...a well-organized private space where they really let their hair down...."
Someday -- best fairly soon, as the primary sources will start to die -- someone needs to write a history of the 1980 Reagan campaign, as it was conducted in the private spaces, which was utterly different from the public campaign so far known to history. That history will need to tip over into the early months, or even the first couple of years, of the first Reagan Administration, as it became clear that the promises given behind closed doors were not going to be kept. (I remember a fellow passenger on a bus in February 1981 excitedly telling me how David Stockman was going to close all the banks, etc., etc.) Without that massive betrayal, the wound that will never heal, no Trump.