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Among dozens of addled tweets from the commander in chief over the past few days, one in particular deserves pausing over because it demonstrates not just the weak-mindedness of our president but also the way his leadership is sabotaging conservatism.

Trump retweeted a post featuring disgraced columnist Michelle Malkin, who complained about being silenced on social media. Trump responded: The radical left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google. The administration is working to remedy this illegal situation. Stay tuned, and send names & events. Thank you Michelle!

In the name of standing up for aggrieved conservatives, Trump soils the brand. First, a detail. The radical left is not in control of those outlets, and even if it were, they are private entities and therefore perfectly free to make their own judgments about content. There is nothing illegal about it. If the administration were working to remedy the situation, that is what would be illegal. Another detail: Trump has 19.7 million followers on Instagram, 26.7 million on Facebook and 80 million on Twitter. Perhaps what keeps him so popular is his audiences inexhaustible appetite for whining.

The woman Trump thanked is a columnist and social media entrepreneur who was a respected member of the conservative commentariat emphasis on the past tense. In the past two years, she has been shunned by respectable conservative outlets. She is no longer welcome at CPAC. The Young Americas Foundation has dropped her, and the Daily Wire and National Review discontinued her syndicated column.

The occasion for the deplatforming was Malkins swan dive into the right-wing fever swamps. In 2017, she endorsed alt-right candidate Paul Nehlen (Paul Nehlen slams ... corporate open-borders elites!), and contributed to the VDARE website which frequently hosts white nationalists, racists and anti-Semites.

Her most grotesque relationship though, and the one that got her booted from the Young Americas Foundation, was with a group calling themselves groypers, led by a 21-year-old YouTube host named Nick Fuentes. To get a sense of just how loathsome this figure is, have a look at this video in which he wonders, grinning, about whether 6 million cookies could really be baked in ovens and how the math doesnt add up. Holocaust jokes. How droll. Fuentes, you will not be shocked to learn, is one of the very fine people who marched with neo-Nazis at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Remember Pepe the Frog? Hes their mascot. He described the mass murder in an El Paso Walmart as an act of desperation. Turning Point USA is too tame for his tastes, and his group has lately been heckling speakers like Ben Shapiro, Dan Crenshaw and even Donald Trump Jr.

Yet, Malkin has declared herself the mother of groypers and called them good kids. When she was rebuked by mainstream conservatives, she declared her allegiances proudly:

They want me to disavow Nick Fuentes and VDARE and Peter Brimelow and Faith Goldy and Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys and Steve King and Laura Loomer and on and on.

They did want that, but now Trump has vitiated that work by praising Malkin. The thing Trump retweeted was not actually a Malkin post, but a tweet of Malkin speaking to a Fuentes event. America First Clips is a feed for one of Fuentes outlets. Naturally, Fuentes is gloating.

Trump defenders will no doubt protest that Trump knew nothing of Malkins descent into neo-Nazi land. But thats no excuse. In fact, Trump probably did not know much about those he praised, either Malkin or, by extension, Fuentes. But he has a duty to know. Yes, hes an indolent ignoramus, but guess what, the taxpayers are paying for a huge staff. He has people who can check. He doesnt use them because he doesnt care. His moral reasoning is primitive. If you are pro-Trump, no matter what else you are (a murderous dictator, a racist troll), youre fine in his book. Loutish protesters harass a TV journalist using the F words (fake news and, you know, the other one), and Trump proclaims them great people. He has no objective moral standards. Everything is about him. On a scale of moral reasoning, he is subzero. But the world of conservative opinion-shapers does still attempt, however weakly, to maintain some guard rails. With every passing day of Donald Trumps leadership, those standards crumble a bit more.

Mona Charen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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KKK hood inside Vons

On Saturday, May 2nd, a man wearing a KKK hood made his way among fruit stands inside the Vons store in Santee, CA. In the era of social media, his picture went viral and made the international news.

On May 7th, Dustin Hart and his wife Brittany Hart went shopping at Food 4 Less in Santee pushing a stroller while wearing velcro swastikas attached to their masks. The woman wore a T-shirt with Pepe The Frog and the word Honk on it, which are white supremacists symbols used by the alt-right.

The hooded man was not charged and his name was not published, although he was identified by the Santee Sheriffs department.

Hart posted a 14 minutes video recording on BitChute (preferred for hate speech content) showing the altercation with the store clerk and the deputies who asked him to remove the Nazi decals. On May 18, Hart removed the video from BitChute, leaving on another recording showing him yelling homophobic slur and profanities at an unidentified man who confronted Hart about his swastika on May 8th in front of a post office building.

Hart is operating under several aliases. He has at least two Facebook accounts as Dusty Shekel and Dusty Shekel III. Hart signs as reichard_nixon on IG and uBeartron on Twitter and BitChute. On one of his Facebook pages, Hart posted his donation to Planned Parenthood followed by a meme stating When you realize Planned Parenthood might be a good thing - Abortion is the leading killer of black lives in America.

Asked to comment about his recent public actions, Hart said, I cant talk about anything until the hate crime investigation is over. He added there are no charges against him at this moment, but apparently there is still an investigation. They called me, but havent informed me that the investigation is closed. Hart wrote on his Facebook page that he is a TransJew and therefore cannot be anti-semitic.

In the video of the incident now removed, Hart claimed he wore the swastika as a peaceful protest against governor Newsom mandate to shelter at home during the covid pandemic and that it was not intended as a Nazi speech. However, both him and his wife wore t-shirts adorned with white supremacist symbols.

Before the public incidents, Hart used Threadless and Weebly to sell these t-shirts. A local group of activists succeeded to have his stores removed from the two platforms. Hart is now using http://www.wix.com and one of the activists who intends to remain anonymous said, Our efforts with web hosting site Wix were unsuccessful though. The activist said one of the people who worked to have the stores removed had to go to the police after Hart retaliated. Hate should not be profitable and companies have the power and authority to remove it from their platforms. Therefore we need to demand accountability. Dustin makes a profit, and the online platforms make a profit from the sale of hate-related items and speech. They are not government entities. It isnt a free speech issue, the activist said.

The activist took action because white supremacists are a direct threat to me and my family and silence is compliance. Members of our family were murdered at the hands of Nazi. Jewish people were murdered last year in Poway. The activist said their child was a victim of hate at school when another child started going up to Jewish kids and telling them that he should put a plastic bag over their head, to do like Nazi did to the Jews.

Cati Marie lives in Santee and went to school with Dustin Hart. The kid was always looking for attention. My strongest memory of him was doing gross things in front of as many people as possible. It was like he got off on it. I dont believe he is a racist, but I do believe he was seeking attention.

Hart changed the name of his Wix store on May 18 and deleted the Facebook post where he advertised it. As of today, May 19, the store is still operational under a different name. On the main page, Hart writes, We are proud to offer censorship-free service. The website is not certified, nor registered for e-commerce, has no company name listed or if it is licenced for business in the state of California and no tax ID number. Hart has no contact info posted, but has a link for donations.

Hart sent the reporter an invoice for $30 for a t-shirt ordered with the design of a pink Pepe the Frog and a black and white hat inscripted with the word Honk in big fonts surrounded by Nazi SS symbols and several swastikas in red. Hart demanded the amount to be paid upfront by sharing credit card information via email.

Screaming match during the Santee city council meeting

Hart is an Alpine resident and many people questioned his choice to come shop in Santee while wearing Nazi and alt-right paraphernalia. Santee city council member Stephen Houlahan said, This individual lives in Alpine but grew up in Santee, so its a failure of our community to reach out to this individual and theres probably more like him. He did not choose to go to Barrio Logan or to an area that is predominantly minority. He felt a great degree of safety to bring a baby with them - they had a level of comfort.

Houlahan faced a heated argument with council member (R) Rob McNelis during the last virtual board meeting on May 13 after local residents accused McNelis of denying there is racism in Santee.

Moreover, several of the public comments singled out McNelis as complicit when his supporters led racist attacks against a woman of color, Evlyn Andrade-Heymsfield, who was his opponent during the 2018 elections.

Andrade-Heymsfield wrote to the council and her words were read out loud during the meeting along with other 31 public letters. She wrote, I lived in Santee for one short year and during that time I was constantly told I didnt belong there, I was not one of them. Out of fear of safety for my family, we had to instal a security system for our home. When I ran for office, people suggested I look in the mirror because people who look like me cannot win in Santee.

There is racism in Santee and it is offensive to people like me to claim this is not who we are anymore, so please stop saying it. Do something to change this current reality. Denying racism exists in Santee when many of us have experienced it is insulting.

McNelis was the first to request the microphone to say few of these comments are super disturbing to me because they have no idea who the heck I am. The council member said he is the first generation of Hispanics who does not pick fruit. Thats how I was raised.

McNelis said his moms real first name was Guadalupe. She was ashamed by that and changed her name to Marie. He said he wanted to change his last name to match his moms, but his wife said she will not take my name if I did that when we got married because I was so proud of my Hispanic culture.

McNelis claimed there were no Hispanics in Santee when he moved here in 1994 and he became best friends with one of the few he met at his daughters kindergarten. He then added that the majority of people in Santee are thriving here regardless of their background.

McNelis claimed people who are looking for trouble in Santee, find trouble. He takes personal offense when people say Santee is a racist community because of everything Santee provided for himself and his family. None of these incidents were racist in any way, shape or form, because the people involved protested governor Newsom. He blamed the media for looking for opportunities to call Santee, Klantee because thats what the media does.

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Users in Thailand are losing faith in Twitter after a spate of company updates look to imperil privacy. Now, due to fears over losing anonymity, Thai dissidents are migrating en mass to Ethereum-based platform Minds.

The distributed social networking platformprofessing to protect against data breaches and surveillanceshot to public consciousness as early as 2015, when it gained backing from the anonymous hacktivist group, "Anonymous."

Billed as one of several 'anti-facebook' social networks to spring up in the wake of Facebook's privacy scandals, Minds stands out from the crowd with its crypto-centric approach.

Built upon the Ethereum network, Minds harnesses ERC-20 tokens to reward its community. In turn, users can utilize tokens to promote content or patronize other users' exclusive content.

Now, the platform is finding an entirely new user base. After a mass exodus from Twitter in May, Minds cited as many as 100,000 new Thai users.

Over the years, Twitter has been a bastion for many Thai dissidents rebelling against their country's strict speech laws. While the majority avoid Facebook due to an obligation to use real names, Twitter's acceptance of pseudonymous accounts has kept Thai non-conformists in good relations with the platformuntil now.

Earlier this month Twitter issued a blog post announcing a partnership with the Thai government. Lo and behold, this was followed by an update to Twitter's privacy policy, allowing the platform to share "device-level data" such as IP addresses with business partners. This served as a warning to many Thais, who jumped ship.

However, Minds may not be the flight to safety everyone thinks. Back when the platform first launched in 2015, security consultant Scott Arciszewsk picked apart Mind's encryption protocols, concluding that the platform's provisions were relatively weak.

Additionally, far from a refuge for all, Minds most popular channels are reportedly flooded with hate speech. A similar issue has arisen on another free-speech social network, Gab, where the line between freedom of expression and discrimination is continually crossed.

Nevertheless, for Thai dissidents, the alternatives are either remaining silent or imprisonment. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Minds might be the only way out.

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Facebooks R&D group, NPE Team, is launching a new app for engaging fellow fans around live events, Venue. This is the third new app to launch just this week from Facebooks internal team focused on experimenting with new concepts in social networking. With Venue, the company aims to offer a digital companion for live events, starting with this Sundays NASCAR race.

The new app appears to be a challenge to Twitter, which today serves as the de facto second screen for commenting on live events and engaging with fellow fans. On Twitter, fans often use hashtags to add their commentary to live events that can range from TV show premieres to sports competitions to major political happenings, like live-streamed congressional hearings or the State of the Union presidential address, for example.

Twitters in-house curation team also rounds up the highlights from major events (e.g.), which are quick summaries featuring notable tweets, video clips, photos, comments and more about an event or related news story.

While there are some similarities with Twitter, Facebooks Venue takes a different approach to the second screen.

Instead of having everyone viewing the event constantly chiming in with their own thoughts and reactions, the commentators for a given event hosted in Venue will only include well-known personalities like journalists, current or former athletes, or aspiring fan-analysts. The latter could include popular social media personalities, for example.

These commentators will provide their own takes on the event and pose interactive questions and polls for those watching. The event host may also open up short, constrained chats around specific moments during the event but fan commentary isnt the main focus of the app.

In addition, fans dont stay glued to their phone during the entire event when using Venue. Instead, the app sends out a notification to users when theres a new moment available in the app. These moments arent like Twitters summaries. Theyre one of the short, digital opportunities where fans can participate.

Facebook will first test Venue with NASCARs Food City presents the Supermarket Heroes 500 race on Sunday, May 31, 2020. Social media personality,nascarcasm, will host the in-app venue.

Future NASCAR races will also be hosted in Venue, with commentators includingnascarcasm, FOX Sports NASCAR reporter Alan Cavanna, and NASCAR driver Landon Cassill.

As NASCAR makes its return to action over the coming weeks, Venue will provide users with a unique and exciting way to connect with fellow race fans from around the globe all from the safety and comfort of their own homes, said Tim Clark, NASCAR SVP and Chief Digital Officer, in a statement. NASCAR was built on innovation, and we couldnt be more excited to help a great partner like Facebooks New Product Experimentation team innovate around new platforms, he added.

Facebook believes the new app will give viewers the chance to better engage with live events and fellow fans.

Live broadcasts still offer the rare opportunity for millions of people to consume content simultaneously, Facebook explained in its announcement. Despite drawing large concurrent viewership, live broadcasts are still a mostly solo viewing experience, it noted.

Thats a bit of stretch. Fans certainly engage with one another when chatting about live events on Twitter. And when Twitter streams the video from a live event something Venue doesnt do, by the way Twitter will offer a dedicated space where users can easily see the tweets from fellow viewers. Other live video platforms, including Facebooks own Facebook Live and Instagram Live, also include chat experiences as do YouTube Live and Twitch.

The real difference between Venue and Twitter is that it shifts the balance of power. On Twitter, everyones comments are given equal footing. In Venue, its the expert hosts leading and curating the conversation.

Facebook hasnt announced what future events Venue may host beyond NASCAR but it sounds like it has plans to expand Venue further down the road as it refers to NASCAR as its first sports partner.

The Venue app is live today on iOS and Android.

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