#onlineextremism — Public Fediverse posts

CNN: Romanian prosecutors indict Andrew Tate for trafficking minors, money laundering. “Romanian prosecutors officially indicted social media influencer Andrew Tate on Friday for trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor and witness tampering and his brother Tristan for complicity, years after they began investigating them.”

ABC News (Australia): Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content. “An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer. Content produced by these creators appears to be, at times, in direct violation of […]