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By Kevin Roose
This week, protests erupted around the nation after a Louisville grand jury did not charge any police officers in the killing of Breonna Taylor. And on social media, false and exaggerated claims about Ms. Taylor began recirculating, using a years-old format that was popularized years ago by far-right YouTube personalities. …
This playbook is not new. Years ago, Stefan Molyneux, a right-wing podcaster and YouTube personality, got millions of views with a series of videos claiming to tell “the truth about” various prominent news stories, including the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed Black man whose killing by police in Ferguson, Mo., set off the original Black Lives Matter protests.
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It’s been a few weeks since our last edition of Hellfeed, and in the meantime, things on the feed have gotten somewhat closer to baseline dispiriting: While the president’s efforts to overturn the election results have degenerated from coup attempt to dangerous levels of cringe, social media firms are eager to return to pretending everything is totally back to normal.
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Former Australian deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce said he had ‘economically and politically fallen in love with’ Sky News contributor Lauren Southern. Photograph: Bradley Kanaris/EPA
Former Australian deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce said he had ‘economically and politically fallen in love with’ Sky News contributor Lauren Southern. Photograph: Bradley Kanaris/EPA
Thu 10 Dec 2020 21.27 EST
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Barnaby Joyce, for one, is delighted that alt-right commentator Lauren Southern has joined Sky News Australia as a regular contributor. “I don’t know who that person is but I’ve economically and politically fallen in love with her,” Joyce gushed when Southern finished talking about how Australia and the west is “capitulating at every turn” to