Much of the group, which refers to itself as Trump’s Online War Machine, operates anonymously, adopting the cartoonish aesthetic and unrelenting cruelty of internet trolls.

Cheered on by Mr. Trump, the group traffics freely in misinformation, artificial intelligence and digital forgeries known as deepfakes. Its memes are riddled with racist stereotypes, demeaning tropes about L.G.B.T.Q. people and broad scatological humor.

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      11 months ago

      No, we need to aggressively stamp out fascism, but you won’t do that by arguing with xitter memes or amplifying their message by making it a news story.

      Read the metaphor again. I didn’t say don’t treat the wound. I said stop poking at it with your dirty fingers.