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deleted more than a hundred Brown, “Discord Was Once the Alt-Right’s Favorite Chat App.”
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Jason Kessler experienced Zack Beauchamp, “The Organizer of the Charlottesville Rally Just Got Humiliated by His Own Father,” Vox, Aug. 15, 2018, www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/15/17692552/charlottesville-unite-the-right-jason-kessler-father.
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“I think there is blame” “Full Text: Trump’s Comments on White Supremacists, ‘Alt-Left’ in Charlottesville,” Politico, Aug. 15, 2017, www.politico.com/story/2017/08/15/full-text-trump-comments-white-supremacists-alt-left-transcript-241662.
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Chapter 9: The Virus—New York City, 2020
She loves algorithms Lee, interviews with author, Nov. 12 and Dec. 4, 2020.
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“Red Dawn” Matthew Mosk, Kaitlyn Folmer, and Josh Margolin, “As Coronavirus Threatened Invasion, a New ‘Red Dawn’ Team Tried to Save America,” ABC News, July 28, 2020.
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“opportunity to provide thoughts” Email from Caneva, Feb. 16, 2020. The leaked text of the “Red Dawn” emails, covering January 28 to March 17, 2020, was shared by The New York Times, int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6879-2020-covid-19-red-dawn-rising/66f590d5cd41e11bea0f/optimized/full.pdf#page=1.
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“a large group of friends” Email from Gerald W. Parker Jr., March 12, 2020.
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“Am going through an interesting” Email from Richard Hatchett, Jan. 28, 2020.
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“a bad flu year” Email from Matthew Hepburn, Jan. 28, 2020.
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“certainly no public health expert” Email from Mecher, Jan. 28, 2020.
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“I wish there was” Email from Mecher, Jan. 29, 2020.
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“a proxy for a young” Email from Mecher, Feb. 20, 2020.
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“the worst form of social gathering” Email from Lee, Feb. 18, 2020.
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“Looks like by April” Shannon K. Crawford, “What President Trump Said About the Coronavirus Versus What Bob Woodward Reported in Interviews: Timeline,” ABC News, Sept. 10, 2020.
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“So spreading and its wide scope” Email from Lee, Feb. 23, 2020.
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“Eva is this true?!” Email from Kadlec, Feb. 23, 2020.
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“We cannot prepare for the future” Email from Lee, Feb. 10, 2020.
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in a briefing to journalists Transcript for the CDC Telebriefing Update on COVID-19, Feb. 25, 2020, www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/t0225-cdc-telebriefing-covid-19.html.
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“My feeling is that” Email from Lee, Feb. 7, 2020.
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“It might be eye opening” Email from Mecher, March 3, 2020.
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“The unknown is what” Email from Lee, Feb. 28, 2020.
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“As a state public health official” Email from Gruber, March 10, 2020.
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“Frustrating doesn’t capture it” Email from McDonald, March 7, 2020.
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“Maybe we should use” Email from Gerald W. Parker Jr., March 11, 2020.
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“We should be treating” Email from Redacted, March 5, 2020.
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“I think a tree” Email from Lee, March 5, 2020.
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“I ran a few models” Email from Lee, March 3, 2020.
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“I really learn a lot” Email from Lee, March 12, 2020.
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“I notice a lot” Email from Redacted, March 11, 2020.
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“I don’t think it would be prudent” Email from Mecher, March 13, 2020.
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“to take action before the storm” Email from Mecher, March 17, 2020.
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“We all used to be” Lawler, interview with author, Nov. 15, 2020.
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“I was like, I totally see” Choo, interview with author, Nov. 10, 2020.
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“a hotbed of activity” Spencer, interview with author, Sept. 17, 2020.
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“The bright fluorescent lights” Craig Spencer (@Craig_A_Spencer), Twitter, March 23, 2020, 12:09 a.m., twitter.com/craig_a_spencer/status/1242302403338219520.
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It began for her Samantha Swindler, “Portland Doctor Esther Choo Responds to Racism in the Emergency Room,” The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.), Aug. 15, 2017.
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“one of the biggest game changers” Libby Cathey, “Timeline: Tracking Trump Alongside Scientific Developments on Hydroxychloroquine,” ABC News, Aug. 8, 2020.
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one man in Arizona Neil Vigdor, “Man Fatally Poisons Himself While Self-Medicating for Coronavirus, Doctor Says,” The New York Times, March 24, 2020.
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one survey revealed Lisa Singh et al., “A First Look at COVID-19 Information and Misinformation Sharing on Twitter,” arXiv, April 1, 2020.
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Another analysis examined 200 million Virginia Alvino Young, “Nearly Half of the Twitter Accounts Discussing ‘Re-opening America’ May Be Bots,” Carnegie Mellon University, press release, May 20, 2020.
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“a long-term project” Kass, interview with author, Nov. 17, 2020.
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“It’s a remarkable mismatch” Bergstrom, interview with author, Sept. 11, 2020.
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“There’s been a ton” Rasmussen, interview with author, July 3, 2020.
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Americans stayed home Kevin Schaul, Brittany Renee Mayes, and Bonnie Berkowitz, “Where Americans Are Still Staying Home the Most,” The Washington Post, May 6, 2020.
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When a large-scale survey David Lazer et al., “The State of the Nation: A 50-State Covid-19 Survey,” Northeastern University, April 20, 2020.
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she had just been convicted Bill Rankin, “Georgia Tech Continues to Deny Professor Lee Access to Fight COVID-19,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 23, 2020.
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In one article Jeffrey Mervis, “Georgia Tech Researcher Pays a High Price for Mismanaging an NSF Grant,” Science, April 29, 2020.
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“Do you have any additional” Email from Lee, March 23, 2020. This batch of Red Dawn emails was given to me by Lee, including selections of the group’s communication from March 19 to July 24, 2020. Lee redacted many of the names of other participants.
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“Eva makes a very good point” Email from RH, March 19, 2020.
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“We also now have” Email from CMH, April 15, 2020.
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“The 4-max model per table” Email from Lee, April 16, 2020.
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“One question I have” Email from WL, April 17, 2020.
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“I don’t know what” Email from Lee, May 4, 2020.
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“would never see the light of day” Jason Dearen and Mike Stobbe, “Trump Administration Buries Detailed CDC Advice on Reopening,” Associated Press, May 6, 2020.
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“Every time that the science” Noah Weiland, “How the C.D.C. Lost Its Voice Under Trump,” The New York Times, Dec. 17, 2020.
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“If asking for a national strategy” Email from Lee, July 18, 2020.
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“a disgruntled employee” Morgan Chalfant, “Trump Attacks Whistleblower Bright as ‘Disgruntled Employee,’ ” The Hill, May 14, 2020.
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Lee pleaded with the judge Bill Rankin, “Judge Thanks and Sentences Acclaimed GA Tech Coronavirus Researcher,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Aug. 12, 2020.
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“From what I’ve read” Ibid.
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“an ad hoc consortium” Rankin, “Georgia Tech Continues to Deny Professor Lee Access to Fight COVID-19.”
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I had a conversation with William Foege Foege, interview with author, Nov. 12, 2020.
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“The biggest challenge in a century” Brett Murphy and Letitia Stein, “ ‘It Is a Slaughter’: Public Health Champion Asks CDC Director to Expose White House, Orchestrate His Own Firing,” USA Today, Oct. 6, 2020.
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Chapter 10: The Names—Minneapolis, 2020
Miski Noor didn’t need Noor, interview with author, Oct. 22, 2020.
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On June 6 alone Larry Buchanan, Quoctrung Bui, and Jugal K. Patel, “Black Lives Matter May Be the Biggest Movement in U.S. History,” The New York Times, July 3, 2020, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html.
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“the largest movement in U.S. history” Ibid.
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a company like Lululemon Noah Manskar, “Lululemon Slammed for Promoting Event to ‘Resist Capitalism,’ ” New York Post, Sept. 11, 2020.
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Or the vision of Jamie Dimon Thornton McEnery, “Jamie Dimon Drops into Mt. Kisco Chase Branch, Takes a Knee with Staff,” New York Post, June 5, 2020.
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Americans said they supported Kim Parker, Juliana Menasce Horowitz, and Monica Anderson, “Amid Protests, Majorities Across Racial and Ethnic Groups Express Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement,” Pew Research Center, June 2020.
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Still, the hashtag barely registered Statistics on Twitter usage from Monica Anderson and Paul Hitlin, “Social Media Conversations About Race,” Pew Research Center, Aug. 2016, www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/08/15/social-media-conversations-about-race/; Niraj Chokshi, “How Twitter Hashtag Came to Define Black Lives Matter Movement,” The New York Times, Aug. 23, 2016.
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“I think what people” Cullors, interview with author, Oct. 25, 2019.
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not having “copyrighted” Cullors used this term in her interview with me though I believe she was thinking of a “trademark,” which one would use to claim ownership over a logo or phrase.
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“extremely well-suited to internet-based” Deen Freelon, Charlton D. McIlwain, and Meredith D. Clark, “Beyond the Hashtag,” Center for Media & Social Impact, School of Communications, American University, Washington, D.C., Feb. 2016, cmsimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/beyond_the_hashtags_2016.pdf.
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“If there was not a death” McIlwain, interview with author, Dec. 11, 2019.
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Even Obama, at the end Michael D. Shear and Liam Stack, “Obama Urges Activists to Do More Than ‘Yelling,’ ” The New York Times, April 24, 2016.
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By the fifth anniversary John Eligon, “There Were Changes, but for Black Drivers, Life Is Much the Same,” The New York Times, Aug. 7, 2019.
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she found a group Gilmer, interviews with author, Dec. 20, 2019, and Oct. 2, 2020.
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“Social media is constantly” Kate Aronoff, “Inside the Dream Defenders’ Social Media Blackout,” Waging Nonviolence, Sept. 30, 2015, wagingnonviolence.org/2015/09/inside-dream-defenders-social-media-blackout/.
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Even Darnell Moore, an activist Moore, interview with author, Jan. 10, 2020.
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DeRay Mckesson was a case in point Jay Caspian Kang, “ ‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us,’ ” The New York Times Magazine, May 10, 2015.
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The blue vest worked Ibid.
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Garza wrote a long screed Alicia Garza, “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement,” The Feminist Wire, Oct. 7, 2014, thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/.
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“I’ve always thought of Twitter” DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope (New York: Viking, 2018), 168.
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There was no need Noah Berlatsky, “Hashtag Activism Isn’t a Copout,” The Atlantic, Jan. 7, 2015, www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/not-just-hashtag-activism-why-social-media-matters-to-protestors/384215/.
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“We must re-embrace” Agnew spoke at a conference, “The Black Radical Tradition in Our Time,” Jan. 7, 2016, Temple University, blackcommentator.com/637/637_up_you_mighty_race_selah_guest.html.
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They were trying to solve Taylor, interview with author, Dec. 20, 2019.
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Miski and six friends Jenna Worthem, “The Vision Forward,” The New York Times Magazine, Aug. 30, 2020.
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In one of their earliest wins Jon Collins, “Mpls. Council Moves to Shift $1.1 Million from Police Department,” MPR News, Dec. 1, 2018, www.mprnews.org/story/2018/11/30/mpls-budget-amendment-removes-million-dollars-police.
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Black Visions also staged a sit-in “Minneapolis Mayor Booed out of Rally,” The New York Times, June 6, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007178355/minneapolis-mayor-booed-out-of-rally.html.
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“Our commitment is to end” Brandt Williams, “Veto-Proof Majority of Minneapolis Council Members Supports Dismantling Police Department,” MPR News, June 7, 2020, www.mprnews.org/story/2020/06/07/vetoproof-majority-minneapolis-council-members-gives-support-dismantling-police-department.
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“Black Lives Matter means something” Leach, interview with author, Nov. 3, 2020.
