Megan Squire
@megansquire.bsky.social
Cyber threat intelligence, investigations. CompSci PhD. Currently at F-Secure. Former @elonuniversity @splcenter
There are mercifully few overlaps between my current remit to study scams/fraud and my prior work studying extremism. Leave it to GiveSendGo to fill that gap, enabling one "Mike Smith" to solicit for a Kirk fundraiser from bustling "Singapore, IN" - a metro so busy it needs a 6 digit zip code
Oh, I see the NYT has a feature on Nick Fuentes today? A few years ago, Fuentes was basically irrelevant outside of a very narrow audience. Then Musk let him back on Twitter, Rumble verified him, and other media influencers (like Alex Jones) amplified him. From @megansquire.bsky.social:
Bad Gateway: How Deplatforming Affects Extremist Websites — Read-Me.Org -All Free
By Megan Squire Deplatforming websites—removing infrastructure services they need to operate, such as website hosting—can reduce the spread and reach of extremism and hate online, but when does depla...
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Google's AI-generated info panel 🙃 I guess I've been called worse, but not by such a powerful entity
"The CAO listed ... Wickr ... as acceptable substitutes for WhatsApp, recommending that staff pick one of these instead." If you ever suspected the government has time travel tech, here is the proof you've been waiting for. (Wickr was discontinued in 2023) www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
US House bans WhatsApp on staff devices over security concerns
The U.S. House of Representatives has banned the installation and use of WhatsApp on government-issued devices belonging to congressional staff, citing concerns over how the app encrypts and secures d...
bleepingcomputer.com
Job Opportunity: GPAHE is seeking a Research Analyst to help monitor far-right extremism worldwide. This fully remote role involves in-depth research, writing, and data work on global hate movements. Applicants outside the U.S. are encouraged to apply. Apply here:
GPAHE Research Analyst
The research analyst plays an important role in our efforts to combat far-right, transnational extremism that undermines democracies, developing and producing impactful content and other in-depth publ...
globalextremism.org
This is the guy whose Dlive platform was used by hundreds of extremists in the 2020-2021 timeframe to fundraise and plan in the run-up to J6.
Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.
Based on @megansquire.bsky.social's research, looked at the spread of the killer's video last year, and discovered that the year-on-year spread of the video is exponentially greater, & in ways that completely escape domestic oversight, policing, & policy in NZ. sanjanah.wordpress.com/2024/06/27/t...
@megansquire.bsky.social's heroic work analyzing online hate group data is a must-follow for anyone interested in social media, hate speech, online organization, and data analytics. I'll put this BBC One podcast in queue now, wherein Megan discusses her Telegram work. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Panorama - Telegram and the Russian Billionaire
Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates how the Telegram app, owned by Russian billionaire Pavel Durov, can be used to spread harmful and dangerous content.
bbc.co.uk
We have a new Digital Threat Report out today - it covers Telegram's recommendations feature called "similar channels" and exactly how it works. www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...
Digital Threat Report: Telegram’s Toxic Recommendations Perpetuate Extremism
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One is from WI: "Exposed author data matches that of Taylor “TJ” Sellnow of Wisconsin. “Cardinal Pritchard” writes articles calling LGBTQ+ Pride Month parade attendees “pedos” and deriding transgender people as a mutilation cult."
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 2y agoBabylon Bee Authors Exposed: An SPLC investigation into the Babylon Bee and its sister sites has unmasked the names of 14 pseudonymous authors responsible for anti-LGTBQ+, racist, and anti-immigrant articles on the Bee sites, as well as several scam businesses formerly run by Bee owner, Seth Dillon.
the babylon bee left online supposedly “sensitive information” about its writers who want to remain anonymous, and is now upset at the SPLC for finding it
The SPLC discovered that a sister site for the anti-LGBT and anti-immigrant "humor" publication The Babylon Bee has been accidentally leaking a bunch of info about its anonymous authors. A number of real names are revealed in this report. www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...
The most shocking info from this is neither the Babylon Bee nor it's authors answered the request for comment with one of the three jokes they know. Fantastic work from the SPLC.
Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW: my colleagues investigated the history of Seth Dillon, owner of the Babylon Bee, and identified several of his anon authors who circulate anti-trans and anti-migrant bigotry on his Not the Bee website. www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...
Babylon Bee Authors Exposed: An SPLC investigation into the Babylon Bee and its sister sites has unmasked the names of 14 pseudonymous authors responsible for anti-LGTBQ+, racist, and anti-immigrant articles on the Bee sites, as well as several scam businesses formerly run by Bee owner, Seth Dillon.
Inside the Beehive
An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple controversial businesses formerly run by owner Seth...
splcenter.org
Here's a little story my colleague Creede Newton and I wrote about some shenanigans going on at The Babylon Bee and sister site "Not the Bee" - Seth Dillon has a shady past and a poorly programmed website www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...
Inside the Beehive
An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple controversial businesses formerly run by owner Seth...
splcenter.org
Here’s a little ditty we wrote about what our new Project 2025 overlords have been getting up to www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...
Heritage Foundation staffer RSVP’d to white nationalist’s wedding
A contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025 governance plan intended to attend a white nationalist’s wedding, according to publicly accessible information the Data Lab review...
splcenter.org
NEW: The bigoted right often enlists anti-trans activist Quentin Van Meter as an expert on trans healthcare. In court docs, Van Meter appears to have misrepresented his credentials, claiming active faculty status to schools that no longer staff him: www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...
Anti-Trans Doctor Misrepresents Credentials to Court
Quentin Van Meter, a prominent anti-trans activist, appears to have repeatedly misrepresented his credentials in court while providing expert testimony about research on gender-affirming health care
splcenter.org
My 3Q crypto and finance report - $23m in money funneled from Vanguard, Fidelity, other "donor advised funds" to hate & extremist groups, $76k in BTC from a megadonor to an unlikely Cville-era recipient, and a Nazi clown rakes it in while in federal custody. Enjoy! www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...
we have another SPLC-er on this platform now. please welcome @megansquire.bsky.social
Here's our report on another coordinated cryptocurrency donation campaign - someone sent over $200k to several extremist groups including Ammon Bundy's People's Rights Network. With Jason Wilson https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/05/10/extremists-receive-large-ethereum-cryptocurrency-donations
Extremists Receive Large Ethereum Cryptocurrency Donations
A single benefactor made cryptocurrency donations worth more than $216,000 to extremists and hate groups between September 2021 and April 2022, according to an analysis provided to Hatewatch by the
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