Smooth the way she dropped that bomb
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Gab account is one of the most popular, they don't like that.
https://ajcongress.org/press-mentions/rosen-riggleman-we-need-to-stop-marjorie-taylor-greenes-online-extremism-before-it-gets-violent/
The American political system is under attack from far-right extremists and white supremacists. This battle for the democracy and diversity that define America has already spilled into violence and insurrection. It begins not in the streets but in the shadows of online chat rooms and social networking sites that spread lies and disinformation, foment anger and hatred, and coordinate dangerous action.
How our country deals with this challenge will have a direct impact on our political process, as divisive politicians like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are actively leveraging these networks to build their political power.
It’s worth remembering that the FBI says that domestic extremism represents a worse terrorist threat to Americans than ISIS and Al Qaeda, which is why the Biden Administration’s decision to join the “Christchurch call” to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online is a good first step. Among the first targets should be the far-right social networking site called “Gab.”
Gab grew to notoriety in 2018, when the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter posted antisemitic messages there just before committing the worst killing of Jews in the history of our country. Unchecked, this platform still provides space for users to espouse and consume white nationalist, antisemitic, neo-Nazi and other extreme content. For example, law enforcement officials have documented that the planning and rhetoric leading up to the January 6th Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol were massive mobilizing efforts and recruitment campaigns for Gab.
Recently, the American Jewish Congress spotlighted Gab’s activities by releasing a report that documented the platform’s online radicalization efforts and incitement to violence and insurrection. After releasing our report and condemning Gab’s threat to American democracy, we conducted a simple online poll, asking whether politicians should use Gab, considering the site’s extremism. The response from Gab’s users was furious.
Within hours of posting the survey on our website, more than 10,000 Gab users filled out the survey in an effort to “hijack” the results of our poll. Not only did Gab’s distortion create 98 percent approval by their users, the American Jewish Congress’s website and social media channels were bombarded with hate-filled, antisemitic vitriol the likes of which would have been perfectly normal in 1937 Germany.
There are two options for dealing with online platforms that promote hate—and potential violence—in our political system. The first is to ban them. There are precedents in law where exceptions to the First Amendment regarding hate speech exist. These standards could be applied to political campaigns as well, making it clear that hate speech in support of political candidates will not be tolerated and that, by extension, funds raised by politicians on hate-based platforms like Gab will not be permitted.
President of the American Jewish Congress and Chairman of the American Council for World Jewry.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/gordon-chang-dr-fauci-covid-borders-trump-china
GORDON CHANG: There's one thing that is important that I think people are missing, and that is Fauci, as the head of the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was America's top infectious disease official.
He had to know what was going on in December of 2019, that it was ripping through Wuhan and related cities. He should have been saying to the president of the United States, you've got to close the borders to arrivals from China and people who have been in China since December.
He didn't do that. And that's a failure to discharge his most important obligation. And remember, Fauci, he knew that they, or he should have known, that they were engaging in gain of function experiments in Wuhan.
So he should have known that the pathogen that was causing the disease and he should have known about that. He should have known that this was going to be especially transmissible.