1. Anonymous infiltrated the KKK by friending Blue Lives Matter supporters on Facebook

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    The Anonymous activists behind “OpKKK” – which infiltrated and unmasked Klan members, including many in US military and police departments – began by creating thin-but-plausible fake identities on Facebook that signalled support for “Blue Lives Matter.” By friending other accounts that indicated support for Blue Lives Matter, they found themselves being auto-suggested friendships with KKK members.

    The more Klan accounts they friended, the more the Facebook algorithm located new ones for them to solicit for mutual friending, and the more plausible they seemed to anyone contemplating friending them.

    They were greatly aided by the Klan’s primitive recognition loop: a Klansman asks “AYAK” (“Are you a Klansman”) and listens for the response “AKIA” (A Klansman I am) – the KKK has a long history of dopey, D&D-inflected wordplay.

    As the Grugq points out, closeted gay people had better tradecraft than this with the whole, “friend of Dorothy” thing. The KKK, by contrast “aren’t really good at handling insider threats or figuring out how to keep threats outside.” That means “When you want to punch a Nazi in the face, they’ll be easier to find and hunt down.”

    https://boingboing.net/2017/02/13/anonymous-infiltrated-the-kkk.html

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