<nettime> Stop the Steal

[Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>]

Turns out, not only is Stop the Steal a pure creation of Republican operatives, but it DOES go back to the criminally convicted and Trump-pardoned granddaddy of all right-wing goons: Roger Stone, he of the Brooks Brothers Riot, who invented the slogan in 2016 and is pandering it today along with a phalanx of loosely aligned haters:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/13/business/stop-the-steal-disinformation-campaign-invs/index.html

Those who want to agonize about the role of the Internet in undermining democracy and sparking civil conflict, well, I think you should investigate this. It's ripe for journalistic exposure, activist counter-efforts, and some quantitative social science too.

We're not out of the woods yet.

Brian

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