Barely making the news cycle but the Trump DOJ has deleted a National Institute of Justice study showing that “white supremacist and far-right violence in the United States outpaces all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”😳 Per the Wayback Machine it was there on 9/12/25.
TAKE NOTE: Fascists erase violent history for one main reason—to repeat that history.
(Credit to Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, who first noticed the deletion.)
@tartley @QasimRashid
Facts don't stop flowing where someone doesn't want them any more than viruses stop at borders. Here you go — easier to retrieve than Wayback in this case. Remember, nothing ever disappears from the Internet. Maybe we should call this Samizdat 2.0! 😉
Have a great day!
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Winston Smith cannot erase history, but he can keep the record from the eyes of a low information voter.
Shameless... let us not forget it...
It would be a nice move if someone in congress, maybe on whatever committee oversees justice and/or security, were to ask why they removed it and then submit a printout of it to be entered into the records.
@QasimRashid
> Fascists erase violent history for one main reason—to repeat that history
This is why the 'right to archive' trumps both copyright and the 'right to be forgotten'. If it doesn't, we're enabling fascists to use copyright and right to be forgotten trolling to push inconvenient truths down the Memory Hole.
@QasimRashid Cato Institute Political Violence study:
Right 54%
Left 17%
Other/Muslim 28%
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