Online Alt-Right Accounts Aren’t Always What They Seem

Pro-America conservatives should take a great deal of ‘dissident’ content with a few caviar spoons of salt, so to speak.

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Internet users recently witnessed a very odd phenomenon.

After Israeli warplane strikes caused a day-and-a-half-long internet outage in Iran, during the quick but sharp war between the two Middle Eastern powers, dozens of Twitter and Facebook accounts that back the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom “abruptly” went quiet.

Wilfred Reilly

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Wilfred Reilly

Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University and the author, most recently, of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.

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