Posted on 10/27/2018 9:47:40 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Until 2016, Cesar Altieri Sayoc Jr.’s life on social media looked unremarkable. On his Facebook page, he posted photos of decadent meals, gym workouts, scantily clad women and sports games — the stereotypical trappings of middle-age masculinity.
But that year, Mr. Sayoc’s social media presence took on a darker and more partisan tone. He opened a new Twitter account and began posting links to sensational right-wing news stories, adding captions like “Clinton busted exposed rigging entire election.” On Facebook, his anodyne posts gave way to a feed overflowing with pro-Donald Trump images, news stories about Muslims and the Islamic State, far-fetched conspiracy theories and clips from Fox News broadcasts.
By the time he was arrested in Florida on Friday, charged with sending pipe bombs to at least a dozen of President Trump’s critics, Mr. Sayoc appeared to fit the all-too-familiar profile of a modern extremist, radicalized online and sucked into a vortex of partisan furor. In recent weeks, he had posted violent fantasies and threats against several people to whom pipe bombs were addressed, including Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. His vehicle, a white van plastered with right-wing slogans, came to resemble a Facebook feed on wheels.
“He went from posting pictures of women, real estate, dining and cars to posting pictures of ISIS, guns and people in jail,” said Jonathan Albright, the research director for Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. “It’s a remarkable change.”
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But before Mr. Sayoc’s accounts were taken down, The New York Times archived their contents. And a closer study of his online activity reveals the evolution of a political identity built on a foundation of false news and misinformation, and steeped in the insular culture of the right-wing media.
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Of course Ballsey-Ford’s social media was all wiped.
Someone who knows him verified he voted for Obummer.
Sounds like a sleeper agent.
The NY Times left out the part about Sayoc being charged with making bomb threats years before Trump ran for President. So the idea that Sayoc was radicalized by Trump is nonsense.
No he’s a crazy man who has a history of roid rage
Sounds like a sleeper agent.
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2016. Crossfire Hurricane.
Insurance Policy
Did he meet up with the deep state in 2015 or 2016?
This kind of crap doesn’t just happen overnight.
Who did he make those threats to?
Until 2016..... Oh Bull@!#t! It’s Trump’s fault.
Why would anyone be silly enough to accept the version authored by the NYT? It appears equally likely, that that this was a well orchestrated plan well above Sayoc’s pay grade. I’ll wait until people from his “circle of friends” are interviewed and their histories examined. (never going to happen.)
The FB1 hasn’t solved Hillary of Las Vegas. Nothing makes me think that they are doing more than following a script here.
I’m interested in the details of the criminal fraud conviction as well as the prior bomb threat.
And this won’t swing ONE vote ONE way.
Not wishful thinking.
NO Rs or Ds are gonna change over this.
And Independents aren’t basing their vote on ONE nut out of 350,000,000 people.
Rs could politely bring up the GUNNING down of our paesan last year, I think.
I’m gonna take a wild stab at this and suggest Cesar was using Animal steroids.
Seen this crap plenty of times.
A nut is a nut. But, you can understand why people are apprehensive about this case because of the way the Democrats and the media have behaved?
There is a total breakdown of trust. This is not the fault of the right.
Thanks for the obvious.
You have eyes.
The lying NYTs is at it again. Other, more reputable organizations say just the opposite, that his pre 2016 posts on social media were very “remarrkabel”. The reason the NYTs says they were unremarkable is because his posts were anti GOP, identified Bush and Cheney as war criminals and very Leftist. So, again the NYT proves Trump accurate when he calls them fake news. Trump should probably start calling them a Democrat propaganda outlet.
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