Megan Squire

Megan Squire

@megansquire.bsky.social

Cyber threat intelligence, investigations. CompSci PhD. Currently at F-Secure. Former @elonuniversity @splcenter

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Megan Squire
@megansquire.bsky.social

Here's a little story my colleague Creede Newton and I wrote about some shenanigans going on at The Babylon Bee and sister site "Not the Bee" - Seth Dillon has a shady past and a poorly programmed website www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

splcenter.orgInside the BeehiveAn SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple controversial businesses formerly run by owner Seth...
Megan Squire
@megansquire.bsky.social

There are mercifully few overlaps between my current remit to study scams/fraud and my prior work studying extremism. Leave it to GiveSendGo to fill that gap, enabling one "Mike Smith" to solicit for a Kirk fundraiser from bustling "Singapore, IN" - a metro so busy it needs a 6 digit zip code

Megan Squire
@megansquire.bsky.social

"The CAO listed ... Wickr ... as acceptable substitutes for WhatsApp, recommending that staff pick one of these instead." If you ever suspected the government has time travel tech, here is the proof you've been waiting for. (Wickr was discontinued in 2023) www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

bleepingcomputer.comUS House bans WhatsApp on staff devices over security concernsThe U.S. House of Representatives has banned the installation and use of WhatsApp on government-issued devices belonging to congressional staff, citing concerns over how the app encrypts and secures d...

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism
@globalextremism.bsky.social

Job Opportunity: GPAHE is seeking a Research Analyst to help monitor far-right extremism worldwide. This fully remote role involves in-depth research, writing, and data work on global hate movements. Applicants outside the U.S. are encouraged to apply. Apply here:

globalextremism.orgGPAHE Research AnalystThe research analyst plays an important role in our efforts to combat far-right, transnational extremism that undermines democracies, developing and producing impactful content and other in-depth publ...
Megan Squire
@megansquire.bsky.social

This is the guy whose Dlive platform was used by hundreds of extremists in the 2020-2021 timeframe to fundraise and plan in the run-up to J6.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

popular.infoBREAKING: SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millionsIn December, Popular Information reported that Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun purchased $30 million in crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial (WLF), a new venture backed by President Donal...

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David S. Levine
@davidslevine.bsky.social

@megansquire.bsky.social's heroic work analyzing online hate group data is a must-follow for anyone interested in social media, hate speech, online organization, and data analytics. I'll put this BBC One podcast in queue now, wherein Megan discusses her Telegram work. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

bbc.co.ukPanorama - Telegram and the Russian BillionaireReporter Bronagh Munro investigates how the Telegram app, owned by Russian billionaire Pavel Durov, can be used to spread harmful and dangerous content.

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WhiteRoseAFA
@whiteroseafa.bsky.social

The most shocking info from this is neither the Babylon Bee nor it's authors answered the request for comment with one of the three jokes they know. Fantastic work from the SPLC.

Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social

NEW: my colleagues investigated the history of Seth Dillon, owner of the Babylon Bee, and identified several of his anon authors who circulate anti-trans and anti-migrant bigotry on his Not the Bee website. www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

splcenter.orgInside the BeehiveAn SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple controversial businesses formerly run by owner Seth...
Megan Squire
@megansquire.bsky.social

The result is we discovered Dillon apparently used to run two paper mills, selling papers to college kids. Also, the website leaked the identities of 14 of his writers, who hid behind pseudonyms to mock and denigrate immigrants and LGBTQ folks.

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Michael Edison Hayden
@michaelehayden.bsky.social

NEW: The bigoted right often enlists anti-trans activist Quentin Van Meter as an expert on trans healthcare. In court docs, Van Meter appears to have misrepresented his credentials, claiming active faculty status to schools that no longer staff him: www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

splcenter.orgAnti-Trans Doctor Misrepresents Credentials to CourtQuentin Van Meter, a prominent anti-trans activist, appears to have repeatedly misrepresented his credentials in court while providing expert testimony about research on gender-affirming health care

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