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01) Let& #39;s have a nice thread about Proud Boys.
First, I am glad the FBI interdicted a plot by their former leader, Jason Lee Van Dyke, to assassinate my attorney in Texas. https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-proud-boys-lawyer-jason-lee-van-dyke-allegedly-plotted-assassination-of-rival-court-docs-say">https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-pr...
First, I am glad the FBI interdicted a plot by their former leader, Jason Lee Van Dyke, to assassinate my attorney in Texas. https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-proud-boys-lawyer-jason-lee-van-dyke-allegedly-plotted-assassination-of-rival-court-docs-say">https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-pr...
02) I& #39;d also like to congratulate James McGibney on his return to relevance - he& #39;s been acting as an informant for the FBI, and this time there are receipts to prove it. https://www.slideshare.net/NealRauhauser/2018-0612walkerwicevichaffidavit">https://www.slideshare.net/NealRauha...
03) We just published a snapshot of the Proud Boys Twitter network from right before the 2018 purge and one of the survivors of last week. These go out on the @SocNetAnalysts mailing list as citable data on @figshare
https://figshare.com/projects/Proud_Boys_Twitter_mid-2018_and_Sep_2020_/90158">https://figshare.com/projects/...
https://figshare.com/projects/Proud_Boys_Twitter_mid-2018_and_Sep_2020_/90158">https://figshare.com/projects/...
04) The 2018 network is quite dense, 132 accounts with nearly 43,000 friends and followers. Our GML file has been enriched with some composite metrics that facilitate layout in @Gephi.
05) The 2020 network is much easier to visualize - just sixteen survivors from Twitter& #39;s purge on 2020-08-10. We added @enrique_tarrio to illuminate key accounts.
06) Curiously, Tarrio& #39;s account has no relationship with any of the sixteen survivors.
07) But if we focus on the accounts linking Tarrio to the survivors, we get a manageable set of just 81 total to examine.
08) Here is a text list of those 81 accounts. https://gist.github.com/NetwarSystem/9243f3f9d1722b91e39f80f6a19b150d">https://gist.github.com/NetwarSys...
09) Took some time with those 81 core accounts. There are three main hubs and a number of smaller ones. Text name size shows which ones are important.
