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Six months after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter continues to be a major tool for far-right extremists, facilitating and boosting their efforts, and 鈥� if left unchecked 鈥� will likely enable politically motivated violence again, according to a report released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Intelligence Project.

The report, titled, 鈥溾�榃e Make Mistakes:鈥� Twitter鈥檚 Embrace of the Extreme Far Right,鈥� documents the company鈥檚 failure to address the use of its social media platform to spread disinformation and highlights its complicity in the far-right movement by amplifying those voices.听

鈥淧erhaps above any other platform, Twitter enabled the Jan. 6 insurrectionists to organize their attack on the U.S. Capitol,鈥� said the report鈥檚 author, Michael Edison Hayden, a senior investigative reporter for the 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 Intelligence Project. 鈥淭his multibillion-dollar company has clearly made the calculation that enabling and even promoting fascists like Nick Fuentes is good for their bottom line. There is little doubt that we will see similar violence again if they do not correct course immediately or are not forced to do so.鈥�

The analysis also contains several other revelations, including that:

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and his team know that far-right extremists are plotting on the platform because they verified the extremists and watched them do it. Dorsey even actively 鈥渇ollowed鈥� election disinformation spreaders such as Mike Cernovich, Ali Alexander and Tim Pool prior to the November 2020 vote.
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• The 蜜桃传媒 warned Twitter about verified 鈥淪top the Steal鈥� extremists, including Jack Posobiec听and Nick Fuentes, in the runup to Jan. 6. However, Twitter not only ignored those warnings, but also has听. Meanwhile, Fuentes brags openly that Twitter helps him retain his audience.
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• Extremists exploit Twitter鈥檚 algorithm to create chaos by rigging trending topics. The company鈥檚 tools also 鈥渞ecommend鈥� white nationalists and other extremists.
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• Twitter moderators 鈥渁re powerless,鈥� according to a source with inside information about the process. The company鈥檚 top brass is ideologically driven, the source said. This explains why Twitter has enabled so many frauds and extremists to have verified accounts and big followings.
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• 鈥淭witter鈥檚 willingness to amplify extreme far-right voices has been a significant part of the company鈥檚 history,鈥� the report states. 鈥淣ow, those voices are one of the听听of the platform.鈥�

Read the full report here.