Mack Lamoureux
@macklamoureux
Investigative reporter. Comms Manager at @ISDGlobal. Writing a book on QAnon cults for @PenguinCanada. Formerly @VICENews. Mediocre Grappler. [email protected]
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1. Canadian ISIS: Multiple sources have told Globalnews.ca the father and son arrested for an alleged terror plot recorded a video of themselves holding weapons in front of an ISIS flag. globalnews.ca/news/10673534/…
If you want to understand the role that social media companies played in facilitating, and some cases promoting, misinformation that led to this week's far-right violence, I'd thoroughly recommend reading Institute for Strategic Dialogue's brilliant analysis published today👇 isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…
On the UK's far-right riots: Maria Ressa, Jacob Davey and I spoke to Carole Cadwalladr for her excellent piece in The Guardian. Here it is - highly recommended reading: theguardian.com/media/article/…
I helped The Economist analyse the UK riots and the evolution of Britain's far-right. Read the piece here: economist.com/britain/2024/0…
A new report from Institute for Strategic Dialogue. “Online Gendered Abuse and Disinformation During the 2024 South African Elections.” A must-read. isdglobal.org/isd-publicatio…
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue gave me an exclusive look at some of their research and a report about how Terrorgram (designated terror group) is using a Steve Bannon acct with 63k subscribers on Telegram to seed violence. An admin also claims Bannon is “involved.” theguardian.com/us-news/articl…
"How Telegram fosters online extremism: The under-regulated platform lacks transparency. The Southport riots remind us why this matters." For The New Statesman my Institute for Strategic Dialogue colleague Jacob Davey and I co-wrote a piece on Telegram, its exploitation by extremists, dangerous group
Hey folks, we're hiring for a role on our comms team at Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Come work with me and some of the best analysts researching extremism and disinformation around. isdglobal.recruitee.com/o/communicatio…
This is big news: Terrorgram has been a major fixture of my reporting, along with Mack Lamoureux when we were at VICE together, going back to 2019. The DOJ looks like it’s increasingly busy going after the far-right/Natsec threats as November looms.
holy shit - over a year after reports from HuffPost & LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH unmasked a leader of the Terrorgram Collective as Dallas Humber, the DOJ has announced she’s been arrested on 15 counts, including for soliciting hate crimes / the murder of federal officials justice.gov/opa/pr/leaders…