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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by larrywright on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:13PM (#23852856)
If someone were to take over that account an issue a call to arms for the QAnon crowd, it could be disastrous.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by RIMR on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:19PM (#23852948)
You aren't wrong. If Trump suddenly tweeted that QAnon followers should murder as many leftists as they can and that he'd personally commute their sentences, I think we'd see at least a few people respond by doing what they are told.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by jacquesm on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:20PM (#23852962)
I can think of much, much worse. The USA is a tinderbox all it takes is the right match.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by larrywright on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:12PM (#23853560)
There are any number of really bad scenarios. The militias and the QAnon folks scare me the most at the moment.
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