Research: ~150 new domain registrations starting with “reopen”, and many ending with US place names, are tied to state GOP orgs and other conservative groups
3 of the largest “against the quarantine” Facebook groups are admin'ed by the Dorr family, right-wing grifters who apparently do this a lot. There's a website ( https://www.dorrbrotherscams.com/) and a Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/...) dedicated to exposing them. h/t …
So, congratulations, Senator Edwards. You're pushing for reopening the NC economy ASAP, you're tagging ‘REOPEN NC’ in your social media posts, and you haven't even done enough homework to know that what you're actually doing is helping some #jerk in Florida sell T-shirts.
This reddit post on “re-open” movement points to domain links - but reopen facebook groups mentioned are more interesting to me - set up by Dorr brothers who run far-right gun websites (they consider the NRA too soft) and their father's career focused on defunding public schools …
Some of y'all are letting yourselves be used. But then there's a long history of this: like the feudal lords and slavers who paid European serfs and poor white Americas to fight the civil war while they stayed in their palatial homes and sipped tea. Fear and hatred are the lure. …
[New Blog] Learn how Senior Security Researcher, @piffey, identified coordinated astroturfing when he came across a Reddit comment with a number of suspect domains such as state-based reopenmn[.]com and reopenmd[.]com: https://www.domaintools.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...