Big Tech Admits Security Teams Politically Directed and Intentionally Blind to Hate Groups

My head hurt when I read a new “insider” article on detecting and preventing hate on big data platforms. It’s awful on many, many levels. It’s like seeing a story on airplane safety in hostile territory where former staff reveal they couldn’t agree politically on how to measure gravity in a way that appeased a … Continue reading Big Tech Admits Security Teams Politically Directed and Intentionally Blind to Hate Groups

Was Woodrow Wilson’s Administration a Blueprint for Nazi Germany?

I’m definitely not the first to ask this. James Whitman a couple years ago published a whole book at Princeton Press called “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law” Whitman tells us of Nazi efforts to use American racist laws to help draft their Nuremberg Laws. It makes sense. … Continue reading Was Woodrow Wilson’s Administration a Blueprint for Nazi Germany?

Dumb as Rocks: How California Caught a WWI German Spymaster

History really does repeat. Just this week a story broke of a man arrested near San Francisco who was inspired by “America First” speeches of foreign-backed agents to plot domestic terror attacks. Napa resident Ian Benjamin Rogers, 44, was taken into custody by federal agents earlier this month following a tip that he was in … Continue reading Dumb as Rocks: How California Caught a WWI German Spymaster

Finding and Filtering Nazi Assaults on Language

A very popular post here has been my examination of white nationalism messaging through T-Shirt designs, followed by the use of Q in modern communications. Nothing I’ve written so far, however, can hold a candle to this new article (How subtle changes in language helped erode U.S. democracy — and mirrored the Nazi era) that … Continue reading Finding and Filtering Nazi Assaults on Language