POPPING THE RED PILL MY WEEK IN ALT-TECH

摘要

Scroll with me here. Somebody named BeatlesBaby makes "a very badass chicken curry." Look, there's a nice sepia-tinted pencil drawing of Ned Stark from Game of Thrones. Apparently, "Walking is the new smoking #Health #Fitness," and some guy's wife loves her treadmill desk. Read this: A Marine gives his beloved bomb-sniffing dog a hero's farewell. You could find these posts anywhere, on Facebook or Instagram or some homey subreddit. But that's not how they ended up on my screen. I saw them on Gab, a Twitterlike social media platform catering to the so-called alt-right, the web-incubated white-nationalist movement that shot to prominence during the last election and made international headlines for its violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this year. I was on Gab because, not long ago, I spent a week of my online life exclusively in the alt-right's domain, a network of copycat sites collectively known as Alt-Tech.