...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

...with #Trump campaign officials again privately coordinating with meme teams, giving them credentials, and making "specific requests for content."

#Wheeler does have documented access to the complete chatroom evidence. It's public record from the #Mackey trial, but the analytical work she did connecting them to #DonJr. and showing the 2016 coordination is in her recent archive.

emptywheel.net/2024/05/23/nata…

The key passage (May 23, @skykiss

Natalie Harp: Gatekeeper to the Reich - emptywheel

Marc Caputo describes the woman who posted the Reich meme to Trump's Truth Social account as his digital gatekeeper.

^emptywheel

#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

#USpol #EpsteinFiles #DonJr #Weev

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I think I can point you in that direction:

#MarcyWheeler #EmptyWheel has documented this in her May 2024 article "#NatalieHarp: Gatekeeper to the Reich."

What #Wheeler Documents About #DonJr., #Weev, and 2016 Coordination

Wheeler explicitly states: "#DouglassMackey, #Microchip, and Don Jr collaborated to hijack mainstream news narratives together in 2016." emptywheel.net

The Chain of Operation

**#Weev →

#TwitterTakeover for #NS-style #MediaAlignnent"

"It is undoubtedly the case that Musk persisted in buying Xitter (cheered on by people who might include Stephen Miller) so he could own a machine for fascism."

That has been evident since at least 2023:

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1102…

That's New:

"We have the literal chat rooms where then #DailyStormer webmaster #Weev trained #DonJr's buddies how 2 exploit Xitter's algorithms 2dictate what the press would cover