An example of the strategies members are aiming to mobilise. The source compared the operation’s tactic of posing their mock accounts as “liberal” in a way akin to the neo-Nazi movement self-describing using terms such as “paleoconservative” or “identitarian” to camouflage their fascist views. Many of the accounts hope to create radicalising pathways by sanitising their discrimination. “Radicalising people works a lot better when people don’t associate you with hate and extremism,” the source laid-out, “so they create these accounts and masquerade as LGBT-critical liberals”. The anonymous source captioned their comments. Chat logs from the fringe alt-right users. Members explained their aim is to create sham social media accounts to clog pro-LGBT+ content shared by corporations with, the source explained, “homophobic propaganda”. Homophobic alt-right groups target PinkNews with vile anti-semitism. The source told us over e-mail that a faction of the group are planning to pummel PinkNews, specifically targeting our Jewish CEO Benjamin Cohen. They shared dozens of screenshots of chat logs, memes and a list of users stretching dozens-long. However, PinkNews spoke to someone deep in the encrypted chat forum used by one wing of the group, who wished to remain anonymous. An astroturf counterprotest to Pride Month where members spew poisonous propaganda on social media and threatening LGBT+ users using fake accounts. The coronavirus pandemic has pad-locked Pride marches, while the history of Pride gains a new, harried urgency as Black Lives Matter riots rumble and show little signs of petering out as police increase violent tactics to disband marchers.īut 4chan users seek to ratchet tension further with a wave of cyber attacks under the umbrella of Operation Pridefall. Pride Month this year was bound to be different in 2020.