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🇺🇸 Prominent US conservative activist Christopher Rufo is claiming that he spoke with a whistleblower in the National Security Agency who says that there is a “cult” of Marxist transgender women in the organization.
The supposed whistleblower asserts that members of the “cult” are so focused on applying gender ideology that they are unable to do their jobs effectively, and that is “going to get people killed in the field.”
Rufo is almost certainly lying, but he was a prominent player behind the recent push by Republicans to claim that “critical race theory” was controlling US public institutions. He has simply shifted from claiming that non-white people are secretly undermining the government, to a new target: trans people.
The tactics used in both cases are similar to McCarthyists in the 1950s, when conservatives attempted to claim that communists were under the control of the Soviet Union, and they were able to use the moral panic to drive left wingers out of public life.
🇺🇸 Prominent US conservative activist Christopher Rufo is claiming that he spoke with a whistleblower in the National Security Agency who says that there is a “cult” of Marxist transgender women in the organization.
The supposed whistleblower asserts that members of the “cult” are so focused on applying gender ideology that they are unable to do their jobs effectively, and that is “going to get people killed in the field.”
Rufo is almost certainly lying, but he was a prominent player behind the recent push by Republicans to claim that “critical race theory” was controlling US public institutions. He has simply shifted from claiming that non-white people are secretly undermining the government, to a new target: trans people.
The tactics used in both cases are similar to McCarthyists in the 1950s, when conservatives attempted to claim that communists were under the control of the Soviet Union, and they were able to use the moral panic to drive left wingers out of public life.
This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. Apparently upbeat developments in Russia's discussions with Ukraine helped at least temporarily send investors back into risk assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that there were "certain positive developments" occurring in the talks with Ukraine, according to a transcript of their meeting. Putin added that discussions were happening "almost on a daily basis." On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. But because group chats and the channel features are not end-to-end encrypted, Galperin said user privacy is potentially under threat. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores.
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