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Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America.

Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges. The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

Brazil's former President Bolsonaro arrested days before starting his 27-year prison sentence Brazil’s federal police have arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro preemptively, days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested a few days before he is due to begin serving a 27-year prison sentence.

Brazil ex-president Bolsonaro detained by police, lawyer says Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday, his lawyer told Reuters, ending months of house arrest as he appealed a Supreme Court conviction for attacks on Brazil's democracy.

Brazil ex-president Bolsonaro detained by police, lawyer says reut.rs/4poEdku

High-profile Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene to quit Congress after Trump feud The Georgia representative will leave office in the New Year.

Marjorie Taylor Greene to quit Congress after Trump feud

Senators Launch Inquiry After a White House Official Intervened on Behalf of Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation In letters to the White House and DHS, Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Gary Peters called the intervention a “brazen interference with a federal investigation.”

NEW: After ProPublica reported that the White House intervened on behalf of Andrew Tate, two senators say the behavior “raises grave questions regarding the independence and impartiality of federal law enforcement operations.

By Avi Asher-Schapiro and @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

Nathan Gill - judge’s sentencing remarks

After outrage, Coast Guard says it will continue to define swastikas as hate symbols - Jewish Telegraphic Agency New regulations had said swastikas and nooses, symbols of antisemitism and racism, were merely "potentially divisive."

After outrage, Coast Guard says it will continue to define swastikas as hate symbols. New regulations had said swastikas and nooses, symbols of antisemitism and racism, were merely “potentially divisive.”

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russia bribes

Reform UK's former Wales leader Nathan Gill is being sentenced over pro-Russia bribes Nathan Gill, who led Reform UK in Wales, has pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery.

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill is being sentenced for taking bribes as part of a pro-Russian influence campaign

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.

The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

Exposed: New Far-Right Research Unit Targeting Progressive Activists – HOPE not hate A group of far-right activists have formed a new information gathering unit and have progressive activists in their sights, HOPE not hate (HNH) can reveal. ...

Exposed: New Far-Right Research Unit Targeting Progressive Activists. Important new piece from @hopenothate.org.uk. More to follow soon! hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/20/e...

Reform UK receives millions from crypto investors - then champions crypto – HOPE not hate Reform UK, which has received funding from crypto investors Christopher Harborne and Simon William Smith, has been singing crypto’s praises. Imitating Donald Trump’s MAGA playbook,...

Reform UK receives millions from crypto investors – then champions crypto. Imitating Donald Trump’s MAGA playbook, Nigel Farage and his party Reform UK have spent this year cosying up to the crypto industry. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/19/r...

New Reform UK youth wing leader attended Tommy Robinson rally Earlier this week, 21-year-old Jack Eccles announced that he has been chosen as president of Reform UK’s new youth wing. Eccles wrote that the new group, called Students for Reform, will “combat woke ...

New Reform UK youth wing leader attended Tommy Robinson rally.
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/13/n...

Active Club Midlands: Fascist Fight Club Exposed – HOPE not hate A new generation of fascists are fusing combat training with extremist ideology. HOPE not hate investigates the Midlands chapter of the secretive Active Club network,...

A new generation of fascists are fusing combat training with extremist ideology. HOPE not hate investigates the Midlands chapter of the secretive Active Club network, and exposes the figures driving its expansion. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/30/a...

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Exposed: New Far-Right Research Unit Targeting Progressive Activists – HOPE not hate A group of far-right activists have formed a new information gathering unit and have progressive activists in their sights, HOPE not hate (HNH) can reveal. ...

🚨 NEW: HOPE not hate can today reveal that a group of far- right activists has set up a covert research unit to gather data on thousands of progressives. Our team has gone inside their chat group to discover more about their plans. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/20/e...

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

French conservatives are inching towards a pact with Le Pen that could enable a far-right takeover of the country | Paul Taylor In trying to woo Le Pen’s voters, Les Républicains risk destroying France’s Gaullist legacy and putting Paris on a collision course with the EU, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre

Strongly suspect that this is what will happen here in 28/9. Tories will replace Badenoch with a leader prepared to try it and Farage (as per 2019 but this time as the senior partner) will continue to deny he'll do a stand-down deal - right up until the point he does one.

Influencer Says 'Alt-Right' Label In Review Defamed Him - Law360 A conservative American author urged a London judge on Wednesday to rule that a review of a Mumford & Sons album in The Observer newspaper had defamed him by referring to him as an "alt-right agit...

This hasn't received much coverage so far, but Andy Ngo has sued @observeruk for an article (a review of a Mumford and Sons album) that called him an "alt-right agitator"
www.law360.com/articles/241...

‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour

Two more former Dulwich College pupils have come forward, on the record, to say they heard Farage racially abusing Peter Ettedgui,

Latest story with Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social

This $4 billion industry profits off of America’s school shooting epidemic.

“Every time there is a shooting, we see an uptick in business,” says one, featured in the new HBO documentary Thoughts and Prayers.

Read Julianne McShane's full Q&A with the filmmakers here: http://bit.ly/43CZte2

Trump fan and financier named over Tube ‘racist abuse’ police appeal Philip Ostermann and Melissa Rein Lively have been named as the subjects of the British Transport Police appeal

Trump fan and financier named over Tube “racist abuse” police appeal

PhD: AHRC Studentship | University of Exeter Project descriptionThe University of Exeter is offering up to three fully funded AHRC doctoral studentships and training and development opportunities across a range of the AHRC’s disciplines for cand...

Here at Exeter we are offering three fully funded AHRC PhD places in humanities subjects. Please get in touch if you are keen to come and do research with us! Closing date 23 February 2026: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:

"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...

Pardoned Capitol rioter tried to bribe child sex victim with promise of Jan. 6 payout, officials say Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, faces multiple charges in Florida, including lewd/lascivious molestation, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.

"A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for storming the Capitol was arrested on child molestation charges, according to Florida officials, who said he tried to use an anticipated Jan. 6 payout to silence the victim."

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

One official who was involved said they were disgusted by the request’s “brazenness and the high-handed expectation of complicity.” It is highly unusual for the White House to demand authorities give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation.

News of the White House intervention on behalf of the accused sex traffickers comes as Trump is under fire over his ties to notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his administration’s recent efforts to stop the public release of the so-called Epstein files.