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You can read more about regardless of why, *how* they’re so so studious in targeting Black Americans b/c they use the same tactics all the time on every social platform here:

The IRA CopyPasta Campaign (October 21, 2019), where they basically steal and recycle popular memes, tweets, Facebook posts to gain audience in Americans of all political stripes. 

IRA in Ghana: Double Deceit (March 20, 2020) where Ghanaians are either paid and/or tricked into specifically building a Black American audience, using the same tactics as before. Similar operations of varying success and complexity are being outsourced by Russian intelligence to other African and Southeast Asian countries.

You can also still see most of the exact same tactics still being used by other cluster of shadowy blogs on Tumblr right now, albeit even more insidious.

The same tactics employed in IRA CopyPasta of reposting & recycling screencapped content without providing a source, or not having an account on the platform they’re frequently stealing from still prove true to this day (ala quiteliterallyhotsauce & co.  but more advanced. Not only do they grab content from real American users, esp. targeting Black creators, they also lift conversation on the real Twitter thread from real users and paste that in volleying reblogs with other similar shadowy blogs, to appear like real people. They steal from several twitter users to construct the appearance of a real conversation.

Example: I-hate-chick-fil-a post a series of screenshot tweets from real twitter user himbojoseph. They added the commentary after the screencapped tweets:  White lgbtq people LOVE to forget that black people exist in our community. This line was copy word for word from another user from the original tweet thread.

(there used to be and are still more example if you go to these blogs and look it up. Problem is, since they’ve been inactive for over a month, a lot of the tweets they screencapped or the replies they copied also have been deleted. that’s why I can’t link more atm)

I make this posts and several others which I linked in hope of warning people about these fake people/blogs, I really hope people would pay more attention to how they worked, so you can spot similar blogs like them in the future. There’s already a few suspicious ones being wildly popular right now, krxs100 for example. They’ve been building an massive audience by reblogging just popular posts about anything and everything, none of their posts have low note count. Their only original posts are the troubling, unethical and traumatizing footage of deadly police violence on Black people without trigger warning, and reblogging these posts specifically at a break neck rate several times every day (which is what quiteliterallyhotsauce, i-hate-chick-fil-a etc all used to do daily). They also frequently call for people to follow their blog, which is weird b/c they don’t really present themselves as a news source, but a mish-mash of memes, screencapped tweets (no link to source), art, and then an obsessive, meticulous focus on police violence and anti-Black racism in the US - only these posts are organic, they even have links to legitimate sources and all of them are properly tagged.

a short/skinny woman is not inherently more virtuous than a tall/fat/muscular woman!

think about the implications of how you talk about people and their bodies!!

stop using “tiny” as a shorthand for “harmless”!

trans women who are butch lesbians deserve to be treated as the women they are, trans women who dont use she/her deserve to be treated as the women they are, trans women who do not comform deserve better. we deserve better.

I don't know what the end of all this is, the whole world has let them down and is watching their starvation and displacement

PLEASE DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT GAZA

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Canadian-Palestinian journalist Mansour Shouman’s team has posted that they believe he has been taken by the IDF. He has been missing since 23/1/24.

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Mansour Shouman is a journalist and humanitarian. His team’s most recent humanitarian endeavours include the distribution of 100+ food bags to displaced civilians in Rafah. They have also distributed money to civilians, obtained through Mansour’s GoFundMe.

Here is a statement from Mansour’s mother

UPDATE: Mansour has still not been found. Here are steps you can take to help:

1. Petition needs to get to 1 Million (linked above)

2. Pressurize Govt of Canada. Email them. Call upon them (email template linked above) — Justin Trudeau has said they are working on it and “talking to everyone” but Mansour’s family has not been contacted or asked for infomation, nor has his team been working with the govt officials in a formal manner (link)

3. Speak to your MPs. Visit them. Call them.

4. Mention Mansour at the protests. We need visibility on this.

like yeah sure, YOUR parents could comfortably afford to feed a family of five on a high school degree. mine sure as hell couldnt. a lot of black ppl couldn't. so then we started fighting to go to college to get the same opportunities as whites with high school degrees, and suddenly, not only is a college degree not enough, but getting a college degree costs ten times more than previously.

and we have to start fighting to get into STEM fields but then THATS not enough, now we need ~job experience~ even though most people only get those comfy high paying jobs via nepotism.

which black ppl dont get cuz we've been barred from most social and work spaces for hundreds of years that no one knows us.

A Palestinian man and his daughter pick wild mustard flowers, which grow in open fields across the Gaza Strip, as the official start of spring was marked by the by the Vernal Equinox.