Left-Wing Activists Are Bringing Back MAGA Twitter

Over the past year, a noticeable portion of MAGA world has been removed from mainstream social-media platforms or inspired to decamp to newer, more permissive sites such as Parler, Gab, MeWe, and Rumble. These alternative platforms are not known for their tough content moderation or for providing a great user experience; however, they are not exactly the dark web, either. You or I can easily look at them anytime we like.

But what if we don’t like? What if we don’t have the time or motivation to scroll through spam links and the confusing shorthand of the more extreme factions of the Trumpist right? In theory, this is where , an anonymously run Twitter account with more than 400,000 followers, comes in. The account’s is to “research, monitor, and expose the extremism and radicalization of the far right across the darkest parts of the internet.” In practice the account shares screenshots with snarky captions, all day and every day, of conversations from social-media sites that an ostensibly mainstream liberal audience might never see. Sometimes they’re of conversations that no one really to see: “I’m going to pass,” read one recent post, above a photo of a man whose T-shirt advertised his . “Major cringe,” said another, referring to an image of a child’s .