I know some people have gotten really upset about Tumblr apparently banning a bunch of black social justice blogs in their Russian foreign agent account purge. So I want to make sure y’all know what’s going on.
The IRA has a history (x) of making seemingly socially conscious activist accounts, operating them as legit activist accounts, and then once they’ve established their credentials they make occasional posts advocating serious violence or calling for ‘white genocide’ or the like. This is so that they can then post links to these seemingly real ‘violent SJW posts’ on alt-right or conservative forums, to inflame and justify their hatred.
So if it looks like Tumblr just used this whole thing as an excuse to delete black activist blogs, that’s not what happened. Tumblr is not the IRA’s primary focus for operating accounts designed to inflame the alt-right. I mean, they’re not not operating that stuff on Tumblr, but they get much better return on investment on Reddit, Facebook, 4-Chan, etc. What Tumblr is, however, is a very effective place for them to create sockpuppet strawmen accounts to hate on.
So yeah. That’s what happened.
On Tumblr Deleting IRA “Social Justice Blogs”
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