Racist Pro-Trump Troll Doxed By Pro-Trump Nazis

April 5, 2018 Extremists, Infighting Is Funny

The New York Daily News reports:

Infighting among white supremacists led to a major development this week: one of the most notorious pro-Trump internet trolls was outed as a Middlebury College grad who lives in Manhattan. Ricky Vaughn, an alt-right troll who was banned from Twitter for spreading anti-Semitic and racist content, got into a toxic back-and-forth with other far-right sympathizers on the encrypted social media site Gab earlier this week.

Some adherents — including white supremacist Christopher Cantwell and longshot Wisconsin congressional candidate Paul Nehlen — argued that the far-right needs to keep taking to the streets. But others, including Vaughn, contended that right-wingers should stick to infiltrating mainstream U.S. politics by spreading divisive propaganda online.

The debate focused on the future of the far-right in the aftermath of the deadly violence that broke out at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last summer. In the heated war of words that ensued, Nehlen revealed Vaughn’s real name: Douglass Mackey, a 28-year-old Vermont native who lives on the Upper East Side, according to voter registration records. Nehlen’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Heavy.com reports:

It’s been argued that Ricky Vaughn, a Twitter troll, white nationalist and anti-Semite, did more to get Donald Trump elected than any entity on social media. And maybe beyond that. Named for the Charlie Sheen character in ‘Major League,’ Ricky Vaughn was among the top influencers promoting the alt-right in the lead up to the the 2016 election.

An MIT study conducted during the 2016 presidential election primaries found that his Twitter was more significant and persuasive than NBC News, the Democratic Party, even Stephen Colbert.

The Southern Poverty Law Center said Vaughn was “one of the first alt-right users to fully seize the potential in strategic, mainstream social media use. His rapid ascension as an influencer earned him instant celebrity on the far right.”

The Huffington Post reports:

Ricky Vaughn also played an important role in amplifying disinformation injected into American politics by the Russian government. HuffPost and a team of data scientists known as Susan Bourbaki Anthony that tracks online propaganda analyzed who was retweeting the now infamous Kremlin-controlled Twitter account @TEN_GOP, which consistently praised Trump, attacked Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and churned out a vile medley of racism, Islamophobia and “fake news.”

In the data set of significant accounts we looked at, Ricky Vaughn retweeted @TEN_GOP the most, by far. Although Twitter shut down his @Ricky_Vaughn99 handle in October 2016, another handle he used, @RapinBill, took over and retweeted @TEN_GOP at least 162 times between early March and late August 2017. (@RapinBill also retweeted @Pamela_Moore13, another Kremlin-controlled account, at least 37 times during this period.)

Mackey’s photo was posted on Gab by the infamous Weeping Nazi, Christopher Cantwell. The @RapinBill Twitter account was suspended this afternoon.



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