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>>/11863/ thx anon, added to the database of anti-Q/8chan articles. How Telegram Became White Nationalists' Go-To Messaging Platform 10-7-19 by Tess Owen VICE News analyzed 150 public-facing far-right Telegram channels and found that more than two-thirds were created in the first eight months of 2019. And not only do white nationalists have a much more robust presence on Telegram than they did two years ago, but their channels have grown more sophisticated, violent and terroristic over time.... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nk3a/how-telegram-became-white-nationalists-go-to-messaging-platform ---------- This article is yet another example of pseudo-scientific methodology used to whip us the masses, where the author throws around some scary numbers but provides no real scientific sauce. Like for this quote here: "White nationalist extremists were responsible for at least 50 deaths in the U.S. in 2018, up 35% over the previous year." 50 deaths? Well, I guess they must mean murders. But what kind of murders--just those done by mass shooters? And how did they operationalize their definition of "white supremicist"? What were the figures for the previous 5 years? Is there a trend or what? 50 is a TINY number compared to total deaths (say, from murder) in either the US or the world. But they never give the base rates (i.e., total number of murder deaths). So I looked it up: 17,284 murders in 2018 acc to the FBI. 50/17284 = .00289. Seems that only a miniscule proportion of murders were linked to white supremicism, however VICE defines it. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/murder But it gets worse. Turns out that the rate of violent crimes has, on the average, been steadily dropping since 1998, see cap. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/table-1 Conclusion: The small blip upwards in 2018 of an already tiny % of murders is not even worth talking about. Total distortion, they lie like rugs..... Took me 10 mins to find get the facts. D'ya think Vice couldn't look it up, too? Or just didn't want to?