#weev — Public Fediverse posts
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developing was already being executed by #Auernheimer aka #Weev, reportedly funded by #Thiel:
**'I've heard rumors that Thiel (who I believe you know) was bankrolling this dude ... to do similar things.'**"
Weev's Confirmation (May 2014 - Six Months Earlier)
Brown documents #Auernheimer's own statements confirming the #Thiel relationship:
"Auernheimer had effectively confirmed his relationship with Thiel six months earlier in what he believed to be a private @skykiss @emptywheel
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... better known as #Weev, and then still posting under his handle @rabite, was a key early player in professionalizing that effort,👈even as he was serving as Webmaster for the rightwing #DailyStormer."
#Wheeler also has related articles in her #DouglassMackey archive on the trial exhibits and chatroom logs themselves. You can explore those here:
https://emptywheel.net/tag/douglass-mackey/
Notable pieces in that series include trial-based documentation of the actual chatroom coordination.
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#USpol #EpsteinFiles #DonJr #Weev
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I think I can point you in that direction:
#MarcyWheeler #EmptyWheel has documented this in her May 2024 article "#NatalieHarp: Gatekeeper to the Reich."
What #Wheeler Documents About #DonJr., #Weev, and 2016 Coordination
Wheeler explicitly states: "#DouglassMackey, #Microchip, and Don Jr collaborated to hijack mainstream news narratives together in 2016." emptywheel.net
The Chain of Operation
**#Weev →
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HPsKommentar
#HateSpeech #SozialeMedien
#Legal #FediLaw(12/n)
..."„Der verstorbene #DavidGolumbia sah in 👉 #Weev (mit bürgerlichem Namen: #AndrewAuernheimer) eine Schlüsselfigur bei der Hinwendung des# SiliconValley zum Faschismus.👈
In seinem Buch „Cyberlibertarianism: The Right Wing Politics of Digital Technology“ widmet er Weev fast ein ganzes Kapitel.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/Data"
https://sfba.social/@skykiss/117095130699957366
5) *The #TwitterTakeover) is part of something bigger: *
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#HateSpeech #SozialeMedien
#Legal #FediLaw(11/n)
...Original-Chaträume, in denen #Weev, der Webmaster des „#DailyStormer“, den Freunden von [#Trump-Sohn] Don Jr. beigebracht hat, wie man die Algorithmen von #Xitter [#Twitter] ausnutzt, um täglich zu bestimmen, worüber die Presse berichten soll.
👉Und dann haben sie diese Methode im Jahr 2020 in großem Umfang angewendet.👈"
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3mt2erscngk2t
Jemand fügt aus den #EpsteinFiles hinzu:
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#TwitterTakeover for #NS-style #MediaAlignnent"
"It is undoubtedly the case that Musk persisted in buying Xitter (cheered on by people who might include Stephen Miller) so he could own a machine for fascism."
That has been evident since at least 2023:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110284912895853578
That's New:
"We have the literal chat rooms where then #DailyStormer webmaster #Weev trained #DonJr's buddies how 2 exploit Xitter's algorithms 2dictate what the press would cover
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"The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire
New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enemies
General Michael Flynn, Trump’s former National Security advisor, boasted to the Young America Foundation soon after Trump’s first election victory in 2016, that the President’s campaign had been a quasi-military 'insurgency' run by 'digital soldiers'.
That same year the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence’s official journal StratCom, published a paper entitled ‘It’s Time to Embrace Memetic Warfare’.
Its author was Jeff Giesea, an investor and political operative, who had run companies on behalf of pro-Trump billionaire Peter Thiel, co-founder of defence surveillance giant Palantir and business partner of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
At the time Giesea defined memetic warfare, a term he coined, as 'a subset of information operations or psychological warfare tailored to social media'.
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In 2011, hackers breached the servers of HBGary Federal, a private US intelligence contractor, and leaked internal documents revealing a proposed operation – developed with involvement from Thiel’s data company Palantir – to deploy near-identical tactics against trade unions, journalists and left-wing activists on American soil.
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Those tactics had been developed and deployed over years by a loose network of far-right organisations – funded, in part, by figures directly connected to Thiel.
That infrastructure centred on a cluster of white supremacist and hard-right online platforms – among them the neo-Nazi publication Daily Stormer — covertly funded, according to participants, by Giesea. The same platforms served as testing grounds for the harassment campaigns, disinformation operations and memetic tactics that Giesea would later present to a NATO-affiliated journal as a respectable strategic toolkit.
Connecting those platforms to Thiel’s wider network was a single figure: Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker and neo-Nazi provocateur known online as 'Weev'. His ties to Thiel had been rumoured in leaked Epstein correspondence, but had never previously been corroborated. They can now be established — through Auernheimer’s own private statements and a decade of documented network activity — for the first time.
Auernheimer was, in effect, a bridge. He moved between the anarchic image-board subcultures of the early internet and organised white supremacist movements. He connected the PayPal and Palantir milieu around Thiel to the alt-right he helped create and harness. And he linked the first generation of online harassment operations to the contemporary influence networks that today increasingly shape mainstream political discourse.
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In 2016, Jeffrey Epstein wrote to Peter Thiel summarising what he saw as the political opportunity opened by the Brexit vote: 'return to tribalism. counter to globalisation. amazing new alliances.' This, he concluded, was 'just the beginning.'
What the documented record shows across a decade is a consistent pattern.
Tactics developed in far-right corners of internet culture – harassment campaigns, disinformation operations, sockpuppet networks, memetic influence campaigns – were progressively absorbed into elite political and strategic discourse, sometimes through the same operators who first deployed them."
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“The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire”
by Barret Brown in Byline Times on Substack
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@NoPalantirInSouthYorkshire
@UKLabour
@ZackPolanski
@nhsactivistrn“How Neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enemies”
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/the-neo-nazi-enforcer-who-helped
#Press #SocialMedia #Palantir #Thiel #Auernheimer #NeoNazi #MemeticWarfare #UK #NHS #WhiteSupremacy #FarRight #Weev #EpsteinFiles #Giesea
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https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com/post/3mewlwl2tuc27
So, speaking of #Thiel, #palatir, #Persona, and deep espionage on everyone in the West, a discovery in the Epstein files reveals that Thiel was funding #Weev. If you don’t know who that is, you’re a lucky person, and probably weren’t in the first line of attack for #GamerGate.
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