Inside a Conservative Operation to Hijack Your Social-Media Feed
A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Shutterstock. An Unsettling Glimpse Into the GOP’s Future
James Fishback lost badly in Florida but showed that there’s support for bigotry among the young.
Dave Decker / ZUMA Press / Reuters What Is the Point of Patriot Front?
The masked men who were in Washington on July 4 are both unserious and threatening.
Cheney Orr / Reuters The Glorification of Mass Murder
The San Diego mosque killings were part ideological, part performance for an audience on Discord.
Zoë Meyers / AFP / Getty The Era of Normie Extremism Is Here
What the alleged Washington hotel attacker has in common with Luigi Mangione
Robbin Goddard / Los Angeles Times / Getty Iran Out-Trolled the Troller in Chief
The war sparked an epic social-media-trolling contest.
Illustration by The Atlantic The Intellectual Right Is Mad at the Mess It’s Made
Conservatives are criticizing influencers for going too far.
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic Dubai’s Army of Influencers Gets Back in Line
After briefly playing war correspondents, their tune changed.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. ‘We Need to Do McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’
Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic* The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race
The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: The Print Collector / Getty; Rick Friedman / Corbis / Getty.
