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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:
emptywheel.net/tag/douglass-ma…
Notable pieces in that series include trial-based documentation of the actual chatroom coordination.
...2024):
👉"What we're seeing is the #WarRoom in which #DouglassMackey, #Microchip, and #DonJr collaborated to hijack mainstream news narratives together in 2016, integrated more closely with the campaign.👈
It's not surprising #Trump did that. Even in 2016, #BakedAlaska described 👉a Trump HQ Slack that was "coordinat[ing] efforts."👈
Remember: 👉#AndrewAuernheimer, @skykiss
#Mackey/#Microchip → #DonJr.'s Team**
The structure was:
👉**#AndrewAuernheimer (#weev)** — described by #Wheeler as **"a key early player in professionalizing that effort"** — trained #DouglassMackey and #Microchip starting in 2015.👈
**Mackey and Microchip** — who had been "groomed" by weev in hashtag hijacking, virality manipulation, and "psychological warfare" techniques — then **coordinated directly with Don Jr.** in a **#Trump HQ Slack** (per her citation of the campaign's own @skykiss
