developing was already being executed by #Auernheimer aka #Weev, reportedly funded by #Thiel:

**'I've heard rumors that Thiel (who I believe you know) was bankrolling this dude ... to do similar things.'**"

Weev's Confirmation (May 2014 - Six Months Earlier)

Brown documents #Auernheimer's own statements confirming the #Thiel relationship:

"Auernheimer had effectively confirmed his relationship with Thiel six months earlier in what he believed to be a private @skykiss @emptywheel

... 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.

@skykiss

Douglass Mackey Archives - emptywheel

^emptywheel

#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 →

HPsKommentar

#HateSpeech #SozialeMedien
#Legal #FediLaw

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..."„Der verstorbene #DavidGolumbia sah in 👉 #Weev (mit bürgerlichem Namen: #AndrewAuernheimer) eine Schlüsselfigur bei der Hinwendung des# SiliconValley zum Faschismus.👈

In seinem Buch „Cyberlibertarianism: The Right Wing Politics of Digital Technology“ widmet er Weev fast ein ganzes Kapitel.

justice.gov/epstein/files/Data"

sfba.social/@skykiss/117095130…

5) *The #TwitterTakeover) is part of something bigger: *

...

♾️🇺🇦 Skykiss will Vote (@skykiss@sfba.social)

Attached: 1 image Weev would play a significant role in professionalizing the trolls who became influential in Trump’s #election "A strange find from the Epstein files: A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with #Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel wa…

^SFBA.social

#HPsKommentar

#HateSpeech #SozialeMedien
#Legal #FediLaw

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...Original-Chaträume, in denen #Weev, der Webmaster des „#DailyStormer“, den Freunden von [#Trump-Sohn] Don Jr. beigebracht hat, wie man die Algorithmen von #Xitter [#Twitter] ausnutzt, um täglich zu bestimmen, worüber die Presse berichten soll.

👉Und dann haben sie diese Methode im Jahr 2020 in großem Umfang angewendet.👈"

fed.brid.gy/r/bsky.app/profile…

Jemand fügt aus den #EpsteinFiles hinzu:

...

emptywheel

2026-08-14 14:32:09

This is not vibes, either.

We have the literal chat rooms where then Daily Stormer webmaster Weev trained Don Jr's buddies how to exploit Xitter's algorithms to dictate what the press would cover on a daily basis.

And then they used it at scale in 2020.

#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