What We Know About 'Microchip,' the FBI’s Far-Right Judas
8 years after he repeatedly hijacked Twitter’s algorithm to hustle disinformation in service of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the pseudonymous radical-right poster known as “Microchip” emerged as a key source for the FBI
...part of the online “alt-right” coalition that helped boost Donald Trump to the presidency in 2016
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Although Microchip’s identity remains secret, he showed up in court on 2023-03-22 unmasked.
Everyone in court that day, including Douglass Mackey, Mackey’s family, the jury and the reporters present, saw Microchip’s face.
Online, Microchip favored an avatar featuring an impish young man wearing a MAGA hat and raising an ice cream cone.
The real Microchip is a middle-aged man.
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Microchip entered court wearing a hoodie, and carried himself with a vague swagger that matched his reputation as an online troll.
That trolling attitude crept into his testimony, like when he defined the hateful and pro-fascist imageboard website 4chan to the jury as “a place where ‘internet intellectuals’ get together to discuss current events.”
When not trafficking in disinformation and hate, Microchip liked to post about cryptocurrency ...
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