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Tommy Robinson accidentally exposed himself again

Tommy Robinson enjoys a wide range of support from users on X/Twitter.

Or does he?

The problem is we’re not sure how many of Tommy Robinson’s supporters are actually just Tommy Robinson:

As Mukhtar suggests, Robinson has seemingly exposed himself again.

Dear Tommy, love Tommy

To be fair to Robinson, he may not have written the letter to himself. In fact, he may not have written a lot of his social media posts. As Mukhtar highlights, there are posts firing off from the Robinson account which seem to have been ghost written:

At this point, it’s increasingly clear that many online accounts are not who they claim to be. Following a recent Twitter update, it’s possible to see which country each user is based in (with an exclamation point showing up wherever someone is using a VPN to ghost their location). The result is we discovered that a lot of supposed nationalists are international scammers who are pushing right-wing talking points to profit from X’s monetisation scheme:

Most shockingly, we discovered that a US Homeland Security account was being operated from Tel Aviv, Israel:

Some say that Robinson himself is also being operated from Tel Aviv, Israel — a situation which has created a rift between Robinson and other right wingers:

Another issue is the number of bot accounts on X, despite Musk having vowed to rid the site of bots entirely. As ABC reported, the number of bots is at least the same (if not higher than before). At the same time, a laxer approach to moderation means hate speech has ramped up considerably:

Hate speech on the platform X spiked by 50 per cent in the months after the billionaire tech mogul bought it, according to analysis by researchers at the University of California and the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute.

Robinson also enjoys significant attention and financial support from site owner Elon Musk:

Some suspect Musk has artificially boosted Robinson’s account. Whether he did that by tweaking his algorithm or not, it’s certainly the case that Musk has created an online environment where far-right bullshit merchants like Robinson can thrive.

Musk himself is openly engaging in far-right conspiracies and politics now:

‘Remigration’ is the forced deportation of all non-white people from European nations. Robinson knows all about it, because prominent Remigration proponents spoke at his Unite the Kingdom rally.

Shameless Tommy Robinson

While it’s embarrassing for Robinson to expose himself like this, it’s arguably only as embarrassing as his other activities:

According to Musk’s AI Grok, Robinson is just another shameless grifter:

Given the above post, Grok is the one account that we don’t suspect is actually just Tommy Robinson in disguise.

Featured image via YouTube

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.