"The #grifters that make up the #troll-industrial complex are not okay.

"One can see the sheen of #desperation in the #world of self-identified #conservatives who make a living by "triggering" the #liberals. The usual dose of outrage bait isn't working as well any longer, so the #rightwingers are escalating the provocations. Tucker #Carlson, for example, gave a glow-up interview with manosphere "influencer" Andrew #Tate, who is being held in #Romania on charges of sex #trafficking and #rape. #DailyWire anti-trans provocateur Matt #Walsh is selling plushies of himself clad only in a diaper, which he encourages #people to give to #children. Daily Wire founder Ben #Shapiro, on the other hand, made a nearly hour-long video #tantrum about "#Barbie," complete with setting the dolls on fire. The clawing need to get attention from #progressives seems to be driving these engagement farmers a little nuts, as they up the weird-and-evil ante, hoping to get those precious clicks and plays.

[...]

"The escalation of shock value tactics, on both the right and the pretending-not-to-be-right political classes, are likely rooted in the same cause: The slow motion collapse of #Twitter, now rebranded "#X," under the leadership of #Tesla CEO Elon #Musk. While these folks have various outlets, both in the #media and #socialmedia, ultimately their #business model of #trolling depends heavily on Twitter.

"Grifters need people to harass and a mainstream discourse to counter. As traffic takes a nosedive and Twitter becomes less a part of the conversation, it's going to be harder for these folks to make #money," Melissa #Ryan, a strategist who helps counter online #disinformation, told #Salon.

"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters #desperate"

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/01/they-need-us-we-dont-need-them-the-fall-of-twitter-is-making-the-and-grifters-desperate/

The clawing need to get attention from progressives seems to be driving these engagement farmers a little nuts, as they up the weird-and-evil ante, hoping to get those precious clicks and plays.

"What Musk has proven through his actions and his statements is that he's committed to serving the trolls and the #fraudsters first and the ordinary good faith users second," explained Brian Hughes of American #University, who is the co-founder of the Polarization and #Extremism #Research and Innovation Lab (#PERIL). But, he noted, Musk is "blinded by his own #ideology" and can't see how this is backfiring. "As normal people, for lack of a better term, continue to leave Twitter, that's actually going to cause probably a reduction in the use of the platform by these trolls and these fraudsters. They don't have their audience of targets that they need," he continued.

https://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/bhughes.cfm

HAHAHAHAHAHA die mad about it, trolls. Full offense."

https://www.tumblr.com/wilwheaton/724472830135353344/the-grifters-that-make-up-the-troll-industrial?source=share

by #SarahVogelsong in #VirginiaMercury:

"After an inquiry from the right-wing media outlet Daily Wire this May about two websites listed on a Virginia Department of Health webpage offering resources for LGBTQ youth, internal agency emails indicate Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration took the entire page down, leaving agency employees who oversaw it bewildered."

https://www.virginiamercury.com/2023/07/06/youngkin-administration-removes-webpage-on-lgbtq-resources-for-youth/

#Virginia #GlenYoungkin #DepartmentOfHealth #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #AntiLGBTQ #AntiTrans #DailyWire #RightWing

TIL Matt Walsh from DW sells baby plushies with bearded heads

https://streamable.com/8yptwd

#usa #dailywire

#fascism #neofeudalism #dailywire #michaelknowles https://youtu.be/4o_F_VQqC2k

#dailywire #TimPool people's lives and rights are not a debate. You weird creepy debate perverts

What Is A Woman?

Undeniably one of the greatest documentaries of all time.

#whatisawoman? #mattwalsh #twitter #dailywire #pridemonth

https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1664424891372941312

Pink News: Daily Wire trolls admit Bud Light and Target attacks are designed to make Pride ‘toxic’ to brands https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/31/michael-knowles-matt-walsh-boycott-pride-toxic/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #Michaelknowles #DailyWire #mattwalsh #Business #Pride #News

#DailyWire liar and admitted #Fascist, Matt Walsh, is making some concerning comments about #PrideMonth

Reminder to #Nashville people, this guy lives here, his company works here, and his plans for #trans #genocide are based here.

#MattWalsh #Pride #Transphobia #Antifa #Solidarity #Defense #Tennessee

https://protspoliticalcommentaries.substack.com/p/the-daily-wire-gets-it-wrong-again?sd=pf

#politics #budlight #DailyWire #media #manipulation #weaslewords #NoAgendaBannedCamp

#DailyWire accidentally made the most #woke chocolate bars ever. Each one says either HeHim or SheHer, and no matter who you are, you can order either one. To be clear, no one should order any, but if you were born with a penis, they won’t stop you from ordering all the SheHer chocolate you want. Now we need TheyThem chocolate.

may 6

Well Prager was caught out falsifying a scientific study. Now Ben Shapiro turns out to be in line with Satanists.

Societies do need a belief in the trustworthiness of their members. They also need honest dealing.

These guys are doing nobody favors.
😶

Agents Of Apocalypse

https://youtu.be/4Lg_Gh3-KUs

#conservatives #BenShapiro #DailyWire #PragerU #videoessay
#religion

“#Crowder is in a big, public fight with #BenShapiro of the #DailyWire, over a contract negotiation that went south. Sadly, that's a likely explanation for his current defenestration. After all, the stories coming out suggest this abuse was going on without exposure for years. The safe conclusion […] is that this behavior is very normal in conservative media, and only comes to light when there are ulterior motives for ending the career of a right-wing talking head.”
https://www.salon.com/2023/05/04/when-the-hate-comes-home-tucker-carlson-crowder/

apr 24

OneMoreThing | A few thoughts after viewing Prager being debunked yet again

The folks over at DailyWire and PragerU winge constantly about the centrality of religiosity to civilization itself. Their case would be stronger if they demonstrated it.

https://youtu.be/0il9nRlW7I4

#Prager #DailyWire #religion #conservatism
#RationalityRules
#videoessay

#Twitter permanently suspended #journalist who interviewed Matt Walsh’s hacker

This week, The #DailyWire podcast host #MattWalsh got #hacked leading a hacker called Doomed to gain unfettered access to his Twitter, Google, and Microsoft accounts.
#privacy

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1933486

I don’t know who Matt Walsh is but #YouTube demonetized his channel.
Purportedly, #SocialBlade estimates #Walsh earns - or was earning, I should say - as much as $1.7m a year from #YT

Bullying #Transgender people! Ouch! Hope it was worth it.

#budlite #DylanMulvaney #dailywire

The Hacker Who Hijacked Matt Walsh's Twitter Was Just ‘Bored’

"The breach of the right-wing provocateur was simply a way of “stirring up some drama,” the attacker tells WIRED. But the damage could have been much worse."

https://www.wired.com/story/matt-walsh-twitter-hack-doomed/

#Twitter #MattWalsh #News #Hack #Hacking #InfoSec #SIMCardHacking #Wired #Politics #Conservatives #DailyWire

Walsh, a superstar of the right-wing outrage machine, has threatened to execute doctors who provide healthcare to trans people and called the Pride flag a “hate symbol.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wdxw/matt-walsh-twitter-hacked
#News #mattwalsh #Anti-LGBT #Homophobia #Twitter #DailyWire #BenShapiro

How does the Daily Wire have its offices in Nashville and not have protests outside every day?

Are their offices hidden or something? These pieces of shit should even have protests outside their houses; this city should not be a comfortable home for them.

#BenShapiro, #MattWalsh, #MichaelKnowles, and #CandaceOwens are all some of the biggest anti-trans voices. They are engineering a genocide, and they are all here.

#Nashville #DailyWire #Fascists #ProtectTransKids #Tennessee #Antifa

Rationality Rules: The poisonous pen of the Daily Wire

20 min video

Methodical dismantling of the hate being spread by DailyWire. Here just on the kind of “reporting” being done.

https://youtu.be/SGBSsRJMqNg

#dailywire #transphobia #hate

Reminder to people in the Nashville area:

The Daily Wire fucks who are calling for the eradication of trans people are based out of Nashville. Many of them live here.

Michael Knowles. Matt Walsh. Candace Owens. Ben Shapiro.

Nashville is currently ground zero for this. These people are part of why Tennessee is passing such abhorrent laws. They will be part of worse to come.

#Nashville #Tennessee #DailyWire #Trans #LGBTQ #TransRights #Defense #Solidarity