Mr Erdogan regularly brands the opposition as terrorists and provocateurs.
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The provocateurs at Auburn weren't the destitute or the uneducated.
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Foreign provocateurs have been meddling in American politics for decades.
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Berkeley's already paid at least $1.4 million protecting provocateurs since February.
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You believe that Trump might have agents provocateurs at his rallies?
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Naturally, the mob bosses were alleged to be the chief provocateurs.
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Provocateurs who attacked police officers and looted stores made headlines. Gov.
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He called us despicable provocateurs and accused us of money laundering.
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Hollomon's provocateurs rest placidly under the lofty words of fortune cookie messages.
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They convince themselves that celebrity provocateurs will make America's campuses more conservative.
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Over the previous year, the moderators had banished thousands of obvious provocateurs.
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For political provocateurs at home and propagandists abroad, this vacuum is inviting.
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Along with Ms. De Woody, a few provocateurs are shaking things up.
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He did not identify which groups he considered to be extremists and provocateurs.
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Like anyone with a political mission, she is surrounded by provocateurs and flatterers.
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Is it a name for right-wing political provocateurs in the internet era?
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"I saw one of the professional provocateurs at a holiday party," Rosenstein said.
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And those pop stars had not yet grown comfortable acting as political provocateurs.
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China, meanwhile, has accused Western provocateurs of being behind growing protests in Hong Kong.
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Pope Francis called the magazine "provocateurs" and suggested that it got what it deserved.
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Civil Rights icon Bob Woodson has little respect for the Black Lives Matter provocateurs.
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TROLLS, bots, hackers, propagandists and provocateurs of Russian origin have lately descended on Western democracies.
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Left-wing provocateurs on Twitter certainly seem to fare better than their right-wing counterparts.
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Yet cultural interaction also induces friction, whether spontaneously generated or instigated by demagogues and provocateurs.
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The purpose of these provocateurs is not to educate, but to disrupt the status-quo.
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Late-night hosts have traditionally been equal-opportunity provocateurs, digging in when there's an opening.
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At any rate, the consequences that befall provocateurs in America today are not terribly grave.
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The violent video, concocted by right-wing provocateurs, was later disavowed by the White House.
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There are whole channels dedicated to showing "social justice warriors" getting "owned" by various conservative provocateurs.
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First state-run media called the land-reform protesters "provocateurs" financed by Western conspirators plotting revolution.
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And he blames the provocateurs on the right as well, although he did not name names.
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She noted that some provocateurs demand forums on campus in hopes that universities will deny them.
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The campaigns will be a battle between alleged peace lovers versus alleged irresponsible Putin warmonger provocateurs.
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Sure, fashion is no stranger to being an arena for provocateurs looking to make a statement.
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The two are labeled simply as nonpartisan "provocateurs" looking to take just any position for attention.
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And those provocateurs, in Beijing's view, didn't have the broad support of the Hong Kong public.
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Donald Trump's critics were disappointed by a lack of evidence tying him to the Russian provocateurs.
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"Our job changed last night, from being provocateurs to being healers," Mr. Bayes said that morning.
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But among midcentury publishing figures and sexual provocateurs, Brown's legacy may be more enduring than Hefner's.
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People are irate and balkanized, and provocateurs, itching to make them more so, keep stirring the pot.
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Hyperrealistic Oil Paintings Highlight Blossoming Young Women Generations of Artist-Provocateurs Join Forces in 'Piss and Vinegar'
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This is a place for makers, thinkers, and provocateurs to collaborate and work in partnership with YBCA.
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His cartoons have been shared by provocateurs like Mike Cernovich, Wikileaks' Julian Assange, and (once, briefly) Kylie Jenner.
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These are not friends Facebook handed Congress 0003,000 ads produced by Russian provocateurs that it had unwittingly hosted.
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Far from being agitprop provocateurs, their ingenuity was driven strictly by the artistic need to resolve dramatic problems.
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Iran's Intelligence Ministry says so-called provocateurs will be targeted if anti-government protesters return to the streets.
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The Juggalos ignored the chaos and took off, leaving provocateurs behind them, and sped around the Washington Mall.
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You will learn from and be energized by the most notable business visionaries and provocateurs of our time.
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Others threw bottles and rocks at riot police, who said groups of "provocateurs" were present in the square.
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One moderator told me she was embarrassed to mistakenly remove a video from the conservative provocateurs Diamond and Silk.
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The internet has already given partisans and provocateurs a cheap and effective way to spread written rumours and untruths.
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His Republican colleagues were sick of provocateurs, had been burned by scandal and wanted a reprieve — an antidote, even.
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Talk radio in its current format, with its heavy tilt toward conservative provocateurs, did not develop until the 1990s.
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"You have full-time, almost professional agent-provocateurs that attempt to create public disorder," insisted State Senator John Kavanagh.
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Then there are the more daring — typically younger — provocateurs, who incorporate demanding tricks and lifts frowned upon by traditionalists.
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Obviously, students can read, watch, and hear professional provocateurs like Coulter without an institution of higher education hosting her speech.
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If not, the Democrats risk another four years of Donald J. Trump and his right-wing provocateurs at the helm.
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But, just like Walter White, it's foolish for the establishment provocateurs to continue carrying the burden of an obvious lie.
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It turns out the late 22019 algorithm *DESTROYS* conspiracy theorists, provocateurs and white identitarians*Helps* partisans*Hurts* almost everyone else.
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Right wing provocateurs such as Milo Yiannopoulos seized on the survey to portray Muslims as a threat to gays and lesbians.
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The lion's share of blame would rest on elected officials, political parties, pundits, corporations, CEOs, activists, provocateurs and a disinterested citizenry.
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Paul and other popular provocateurs have dabbled in conspiracy theories in the past since they tend to perform well on the platform.
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Mic correspondents on this new, twice-weekly show go beyond the headlines to profile the underrepresented, the problem-solvers and the provocateurs.
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The Cold-War-era methods of undercover agents, informants living in your neighborhood and agents provocateurs is too labor-intensive and inefficient.
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The statement went on to say that officials "vowed to mercilessly wipe out the provocateurs making desperate efforts to stifle" North Korea.
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His friends were legion, an endless roll call of the geniuses, provocateurs and poseurs who gave the decade its distinctive cultural tang.
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Those on the left have criticized the platform for not being tough enough on right-wing provocateurs like conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
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Trust Mr. Bradshaw, one of contemporary theater's most impish provocateurs, to give it the old college try — and more or less succeed.
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Ms. Davis and Ms. Laubrock are two subtle provocateurs whose respective roles in New York's avant-garde music community continue to grow.
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As you said, for all the positive voices Twitter has elevated, it's also empowered racists and trolls and provocateurs and authoritarian governments.
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But a free speech movement that has elevated expensive provocateurs over conservative intellectuals has only undermined the cause of campus intellectual diversity.
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When we think of provocateurs now, it's easy to immediately leap to tedious fascist fence walkers like Douglas P. of Death In June.
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In a column for Germany's Die Welt newspaper, Heiko Maas said that "right-wing populist provocateurs" were relativizing the crimes of the Holocaust.
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Online provocateurs are suggesting that the public should boycott Cadbury because the photo, by their argument, shows that the company supports Muslim values.
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When not intended to criticize the powerful, it becomes the weapon of anarchic provocateurs and the sycophants who take their agenda too far.
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Other nonfiction writers have come up concurrently or followed suit: Jay Caspian Kang, Hua Hsu, even provocateurs like Eddie Huang and Amy Chua.
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Citizens struggle to make sense of confusing messages entering the public sphere from propagandists, provocateurs, corporatists, political activists and other self-serving sources.
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For one, the activist students assumed that a free speech-themed event by a conservative group was a vehicle for far-right provocateurs.
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A confrontation between right-wing provocateurs and a CNN star (who also happens to be the brother of the governor of New York).
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" He says the main provocateurs are "operating in very powerful institutions -- the military and monastic networks; the two major pillars of Burmese society.
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Read more " _____ • Noah Rothman in Commentary: "Responsible conservatives have ceded the latitude to shape conservative positions to disreputable provocateurs, thus repulsing persuadable voters.
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But in these politically polarized days, the billion-dollar brands are skittish about being trolled online by provocateurs on the right and left.
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Unchecked free speech, including the freedom to do a Hitler salute, was integral to how they presented themselves: as sexy, transgressive agent provocateurs.
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Then, a few years later, the famous riot at Attica broke out (some argue that its provocateurs were the same crew from the Tombs).
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Fresh off announcing a new book, English rave provocateurs the KLF today shared news of a mysterious five-day event in Liverpool this summer.
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One of the detectives' tasks is to ferret out information about Jimmy Knight, the leader of the Real Socialist Party, a catchall provocateurs' group.
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His cause has been taken up and amplified by right-wing U.S. provocateurs such as Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Ann Coulter and Mike Cernovich.
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There is good reason for journalists to expose the creators of fake web content, and it's not just the glee of watching provocateurs squirm.
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And as befitting its birth, its boundary-pushing, slightly odd wares have become a go-to for downtown denizens and celebrity provocateurs like Rihanna.
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CARAMANICA Stephen Mallinder of the English post-punk provocateurs Cabaret Voltaire will release his first solo album in 35 years, "Um Dada," in October.
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CARAMANICA Stephen Mallinder of the English post-punk provocateurs Cabaret Voltaire will release his first solo album in 35 years, "Um Dada," in October.
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Provocateurs want to get a rise out of their audience, and Huppert never seems to give a damn about how her audience reacts at all.
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Some suggested that American, Israeli and Saudi provocateurs had stoked the unrest in order to weaken Iran and create divisions with its key regional allies.
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Beside the political risks, they fear that would let provocateurs flirt with the edges of prohibitions, and furnish endless fodder for challenges to their decisions.
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Although he has argued in favour of expansive powers for presidents, Mr Barr promised to allow Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian provocateurs to proceed unhindered.
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The presidency has gone to Donald Trump and the country is a chaotic and unfriendly place in a new video for punk provocateurs Pussy Riot.
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Only by protesting their rights to speak do we give these provocateurs the larger audience they never would have had if they were simply ignored.
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"As of now, police have arrested more than 20 people we thought were the provocateurs and who did other crimes," said police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo.
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It encouraged urban police forces to confront Black Panthers; planted informants and agents provocateurs; and intimidated local community members who were sympathetic to the group.
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It instead beckoned an all-star lineup of right-wing provocateurs, fake news peddlers, pro-Trump lawmakers, political meme artists, and anti-anti-Trump contrarians.
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But in December he will leave that trio of louche provocateurs to focus on his own solo career (as both a musician and a writer).
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Public figures of all types should invest the time now to imagine future scenarios in which they might find themselves accosted by camera-wielding provocateurs.
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The government claims that provocateurs are piggybacking on the movement, but repression is a "trademark" of the governing Awami League, a rights activist told us.
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The commanders' group realizes, as do we, that this will not be easy; provocateurs on both sides would seek to prevent a two-state solution.
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Worst of all, many Communists applauded the execution of tens of thousands of Soviet comrades, denouncing those who were executed as bourgeois spies and provocateurs.
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In an era that celebrates celebrity, vulgar loudmouths, puerile provocateurs, selfie-addicts, and excessive materialists, Merlin James prefers subtlety over din, less rather than more.
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Enforcers and on-ice bodyguards have since been squeezed out of the game, and some of the league's most notorious provocateurs have transformed into playmakers.
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Also keep in mind that masked anonymity shields provocateurs and protects them from identification and subsequent prosecution for criminal acts -- like the assault on Andy Ngo.
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It's an entire vibe that separates preservationists from progressives and squares from subversives, attracting legions of misfits, weirdos, transgressors, and provocateurs who eventually become a community.
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What our country is witnessing is a tidal wave of right-wing provocateurs descending on Berkeley's campus like ants on hot dogs on a picnic table.
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Not just D'Souza but an entire cohort of young right-wingers were formed by the campus wars of the 1980s, a milieu that rewarded prankish provocateurs.
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Chinese state-run media is now actively promoting the idea that the protesters are rioters or "paid provocateurs" and actively misrepresenting footage to denigrate the protesters.
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And toward that end, it will sabotage the bloc, sending provocateurs to represent it in Brussels and penalizing countries that vote to grant another Brexit extension.
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By the end of the decade, against the backdrop of Brexit and Trump's election, it was seen as a playground for Russian bots and political provocateurs.
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Beijing has repeatedly claimed the protesters are paid provocateurs and has accused Western countries like the United States and Britain of helping to foment the unrest.
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Provocateurs like Mr. Yiannopoulos became even more popular the more they rail against the left and its perceived intolerance of their most over-the-line remarks.
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UC Berkeley, then, bears the brunt of the cost of protecting its speakers and students, while the student group inviting provocateurs onto campus holds no financial obligation.
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That's the kind of reaction on which right-wing provocateurs thrive, and now Yiannopoulos is set to bait the mob again in an attempted return to relevance.
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His impulsive tweets and taunts in response to even the smallest provocation -- and provocateurs -- have regularly sidetracked the messages he and his team had hoped to deliver.
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But as Jacobsson finished addressing the crowd, a few "provocateurs"—as local papers referred to them at the time—among the demonstrators began scuffling with the police.
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Propagandists can then manually craft messages to influence them, deploying covert provocateurs, either humans or automated computer programs known as bots, in hopes of altering their behavior.
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Repeated efforts to plant agents provocateurs who endorse violent flanks should send a clear signal: The authorities want movements to play the game the state knows best.
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Brazil had become a military dictatorship in 1964, and the generals quickly tightened their grip on critics, writers, poets and provocateurs such as Messrs Veloso and Gil.
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I don't know if I buy that notion, but I do hope one day America will be able to ignore the provocateurs instead of violently fighting them.
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" One of the most outspoken Stoneman Douglas High students, David Hogg, has been attacked by right-wing provocateurs pushing conspiracies, including that he is a "crisis actor.
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Our highly limited discourse on the topic means that Nazis and white supremacists are put in the same category with sacrilegious art exhibits and provocateurs like Flynt.
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So in the late 1960s along came a group of provocateurs like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and the rest of the counterculture to upend the Protestant establishment.
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When his teammates arrive in the aftermath, the charnel-house hellscape they discover recalls the hyperviolent dioramas of the Young British Artist provocateurs Jake and Dinos Chapman.
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As tension around Trump rallies has shifted outside the arenas, and protesters have become more numerous and more aggressive, some of the people protesting are simply provocateurs.
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But in the days before Kelly took over, staffers would sneak stories onto his desk — including reports from internet provocateurs like Charles C. Johnson — according to Politico.
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Official reports and comments also were slim in Iran&aposs state-controlled media, though Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said the "main provocateurs" of Monday&aposs protests were arrested.
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" Other speakers included gun-rights celebrities and right-wing provocateurs who railed against socialism, political correctness, and Hillary Clinton, prompting a faint, fleeting chant of "Lock her up!
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Longtime Trump political adviser Roger Stone and far-right provocateurs such as Milo Yiannopoulos and InfoWars' Alex Jones were among those featured at the group's convention-week rally.
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A series of speakers, from national candidates to conservative provocateurs, made the case for loyalty to Trump -- and the prosecution of his likely Democratic presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton.
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But it's an entirely new field, the rules are ill-defined and constantly changing, and the systems reward provocateurs over creators who carefully consider and moderate their impact.
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Google said it was investigating "attempts to abuse our systems", after it was reported that it, too, had been targeted by Russian provocateurs during last year's presidential election.
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This power trio of provocateurs presents an ongoing project at the intersection between human nature and that of the 'groupthink' stream of ideas flowing through the digital world.
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However, it is difficult to believe that Mueller has expended all of this effort simply to bag two notorious provocateurs like Corsi and Stone for making false statements.
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The art-club theme comes alive in the backroom, where the Barn-Gruin Gallery opens May 27 with a photo exhibition, "Punks, Poets and Provocateurs," by Marcia Resnick.
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Some bones have been found at an excavation; political provocateurs are demonstrating on a bridge; a pair of idealistic new zookeepers have liberated two bears from their cages.
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Yes, a few dozen provocateurs did damage property and throw objects at the police, after being provoked by the officers' tear gas, rubber bullets and military-style maneuvers.
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Some of these police operatives were also provocateurs urging our organization, a nonviolent group, to commit dangerous and illegal acts, which we had the good sense to avoid.
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Considering the frenzied psychedelic circus it might have been, "Gimme Danger," Jim Jarmusch's reverent documentary portrait of Iggy Pop, one of rock's ultimate daredevil provocateurs, is downright prim.
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How long will it take before the pro-Trump black provocateurs realize that funhouse mirrors can't hide them from the scorn of people who judge their true reflection?
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Part of that has involved demonizing aid groups with foreign funding that are portrayed in pro-state news media as unpatriotic provocateurs that seek to destabilize the country.
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After Suharto, the authoritarian president, fell in 1998, anti-Chinese riots swept cities throughout Sumatra and Java Island, after provocateurs blamed Chinese business interests for Indonesia's economic crisis.
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In July, it permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos, a Breitbart editor and one of the internet's leading provocateurs, who had come to use Twitter as his personal goon squad.
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Two far-right provocateurs, Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, threw a spotlight on the comments — written between 2009 and 2012 — after Mr. Gunn harshly criticized President Trump online.
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The term "alt-right" probably makes you think of Twitter or a dark subreddit, or 4chan, or some social medium occupied by meme-slinging, Trump-supporting, unapologetically bigoted provocateurs.
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But, arguably, in recent years, they've made the public street coarser, angrier, more outrage-prone, less constructive, as algorithms have rewarded trolls and provocateurs who best played their games.
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But she simply doesn't believe in bending to the will of conservative provocateurs, "giving them the podium to just make pronouncements about the world without any checks," she said.
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Yet he's now at risk of facing a similar fate as those two provocateurs, being locked out of mainstream media and cut off from key sources of personal revenue.
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Now, in response to Congressional anger and pressure for community censorship from cyber mobs, the executives at Facebook, YouTube and Twitter want to act all righteous by deplatforming provocateurs.
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The shooting at Stoneman Douglas High, along with the student survivors who have since led impassioned rallies for restrictions on guns, quickly attracted the attention of far-right provocateurs.
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It's a scene that recalls episodes of "no-platforming" on college campuses that have arisen in response to visits by far-right provocateurs like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos.
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Right-wing provocateurs like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos, and more traditional conservatives like Charles Murray, have been met with protests on campus, some of which have turned violent.
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Proud Boys, including their founder Gavin McInnes plus other right-wing provocateurs, also hosted a "Defend Free Speech" rally in D.C. on Saturday, days after Trump's July 4 extravaganza.
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But I read somewhere 'Trolls don't mean it, provocateurs do' [Ian] shows that things can change by being a romantic, and railing against the boredom of the way we exist.
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It's a PR war—and one that right-wing provocateurs like Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter, who staged her own costly feint of appearing at Free Speech Week are winning. Handily.
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A third Saturday of anti-fuel-tax demonstrations, infiltrated by violent provocateurs from the hard left and the extreme right, saw windows smashed, cars ablaze and monuments defiled in Paris.
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Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter were grilled in Congress about why they had not spotted the political ads from Russian provocateurs placed on their websites during last year's election.
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" Early Friday morning, North Korea issued a new statement in response to Trump's threat from Wednesday, vowing to "mercilessly wipe out the provocateurs making desperate attempts to stifle socialist country.
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Though the pint-sized protagonists of our childhood could have definitely presented more in the way of diversity, we're grateful to have grown up with these brainiacs, spitfires, and provocateurs.
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There has been a rise in claims of "fake news" against legitimate news organizations, and also a rise in actual disinformation, created by provocateurs, partisans, foreign nations, and conspiracy theorists.
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Provocateurs may gravitate toward the completely sheer (at Sonia Rykiel) or fringe laden (Calvin Klein); pragmatists will appreciate the abundance of blazers (Balenciaga), anoraks (Public School) and trench coats (Margiela).
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Donald Trump has begun setting up his cabinet and choosing his closest advisors, so far a mix of establishment conservatives and alt-right provocateurs like Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel.
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Satire can be done well at the movies; The Hunt is so pleased with its offensiveness that, like the worst self-proclaimed provocateurs, it just falls flat on its face.
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On a national scale, an ascendant network of anti-Muslim activists and provocateurs has exploited the fears brought on by these changes, finding a platform and a receptive audience online.
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Mixed in with complaints from right-wing provocateurs who have already been shut down are serious conservative fears that the moves will result in censorship for right-leaning political thought.
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Twitter suspended a bunch of white supremacists and prominent provocateurs — including Milo Yiannoppolis, Alex Jones, and Gavin McInnes — but was hesitant to target other alt-right leaders like Richard Spencer.
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An easy one: Why hasn't Twitter punished lefties in the same way it has punished far-right-wing Twitter provocateurs like Milo Yiannopoulos, Richard Spencer, Roger Stone and Alex Jones?
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Aghdam's complaints echoed what a wide range of YouTube posters — from self-described animal rights activists like her to right-wing political provocateurs — have increasingly been protesting over the last year.
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Bad behavior, however, could be tolerated by a permissive admin if it was amusing enough, which is part of the reason provocateurs of all stripes still enjoy outsized reputations online today.
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Facebook, Google and Twitter were hauled in front of Congress after it emerged that a trove of controversial American political ads on their sites had been paid for by Russian provocateurs.
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Journalists who think they are providing comprehensive coverage of Trump have invited various freaks and provocateurs into the news arena, sparking ratings upticks and clicks, but yielding little perspective or substance.
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A leadership council of indigenous provocateurs led the circle discussion at the Ace Hotel, while the audience was invited to contribute to Johnson's "Sewing Bee," an ongoing experiment in public engagement.
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All urged the ensemble not to sugarcoat history: There were accomplishments among the groups, but there were also lows like infighting, sexism and the damage wrought by informers and agents provocateurs.
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One sitting area in the living room mixes a whimsical, 11-legged, bronze-and-glass table by the Paris-based provocateurs Garouste and Bonetti with 19th-century side chairs from Italy.
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The governors share more than a party label: They are, to a man, proud provocateurs who have tried to enact conservative policies in blue states through badgering and political intimidation. Govs.
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Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released their report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election, concluding that provocateurs had interfered, but that there had been no collusion with the Trump campaign.
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"We will take the toughest counteraction against the provocateurs in order to defend ourselves by powerful force of arms and keep to the road chosen by ourselves," an unidentified ministry spokesman said.
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They resurfaced this week, apparently after Mr. Gunn harshly criticized President Trump on Twitter, prompting two far-right provocateurs, Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, to search through Mr. Gunn's social media history.
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Cuban authorities do not comment on police activity such as the detention of dissidents, and dismisses them as a tiny minority of provocateurs financed by the United States to subvert the government.
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Tokayev had earlier blamed the violence on "provocateurs" who used an act of hooliganism to instigate larger-scale violence and said the local authorities would be punished for failing to prevent it.
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From leading 90s DC punk provocateurs Nation of Ulysses, to the garage soul of the Make Up, to the cosmic Weird War, Svenonious has exuded a dapper, debonair, and deeply intelligent awareness.
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A photo of him -- wearing his red shirt -- posing with three young men wearing yellow Bersih t-shirts led local media to believe that he is planning to infiltrate provocateurs into the rally.
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Just think: families across America will be humming songs, in part, about the unstoppability of social progress, and reciting the words, in part, by John Waters, one of America's finest and strangest provocateurs.
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As unoriginal as it may be, the film is bound to be an award-winning smash, because it boasts a likeable, natural performance from Lady Gaga, one of pop music's most talented provocateurs.
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This group would have a lot to say to... The Conservatives: Ivanka also follows Fox News, several mainstream Republican politicians, along with right-wing provocateurs like Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, and Ben Shapiro.
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Normally respectable journalists have become provocateurs, apparently more beholden to the whims of their programming director and potential viral videos than their own history of quality journalism or the good of our country.
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The American people deserve to know how much of the Trump-Russia probe was the result of agent provocateurs and political muckrakers and FISA cheaters, and how much was legitimate law enforcement work.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was revealed that the people doing this were government actors, agent provocateurs, doing this just so that they can claim, look, we can't have people with guns.
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Several faculty and students had already implored Chancellor Carol Christ to revoke the invitations of conservative provocateurs Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter to speak on campus, and their declarations were met with enthusiasm.
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Just as quickly, Mr. Hogg attracted the disdain of right-wing provocateurs like The Gateway Pundit, a fringe website that gained prominence in 2016 for pushing conspiracies about voter fraud and Hillary Clinton.
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Mr. DeSantis later faced questions about speaking at conferences organized by right-wing provocateurs and not returning campaign donations from a supporter who called former President Barack Obama a racist slur on Twitter.
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Two far-right provocateurs, Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, threw a spotlight on the tweets two weeks ago after Mr. Gunn harshly criticized President Trump on Twitter, prompting calls for Mr. Gunn's ouster.
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They also try to make teens look like promiscuous provocateurs by offering the teen's prior consent to sway public opinion and discredit the youth; and jurors may award lower damages in such cases.
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"The office of the president wishes to state unequivocally that these allegations are completely baseless and an unfortunate attempts by agents provocateurs to undermine Liberia's democratic process," Johnson Sirleaf's spokesman, Jerolinmek Piah, told reporters.
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LONDON — If the London men's wear scene resembles a playground of youthful provocateurs intent on blurring boundaries and questioning gender, then Edward Crutchley has emerged in recent years as one of its grown-ups.
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Yet Hungarians who consume only state media, or the private outlets owned by Orban loyalists, will likely be either unaware of the scale of the protests, or consider them the work of foreign provocateurs.
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In his prior job as head of the Breitbart news organization, he published virulent anti-Muslim and anti-woman pieces, and welcomed so-called alt-right provocateurs who exhibit a range of hateful attitudes.
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In the last several years, such pollution has often come from right-wing provocateurs who speak at institutions of higher learning to add credence and energy to racist, homophobic, and sexist attitudes and practices.
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By embracing impeachment as a personal cause during the midterm elections, ignoring the entreaties of Democratic leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Mr. Steyer claimed a role as one of his party's chief provocateurs.
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By embracing impeachment as a personal cause during the midterm elections, ignoring the entreaties of Democratic leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Mr. Steyer claimed a role as one of his party's chief provocateurs.
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The attack, I confess, feels imported: the apparent killer who is Australian, the references in what appears to be his so-called manifesto to right-wing provocateurs and white supremacists in America and elsewhere.
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That is not to suggest that the "original" work is without merit: Bancroft and Nesbett have proven themselves tactically brilliant provocateurs who have consistently challenged contemporary notions of what "art" is and is not.
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His audience at the American Priority Conference, some of them wearing QAnon shirts, had paid between $165 and $1,500 for three days of events with far-right provocateurs and "Make America Great Again" Twitter celebrities.
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But: What this episode shows is that under the right circumstances, the controversial no-platforming tactics — which range from activists noisily disrupting speeches to big tech corporations banning provocateurs from their platforms — really can work.
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"Naturally, in order to do that, you need for order to be imposed, and you need to fight against extremists and provocateurs who don't want the stabilization of the situation," RIA quoted Bogdanov as saying.
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" Even when disinvitation is a product of nonviolent counter-speech or serious safety concerns due to violent protests from both the left and the right, provocateurs like Coulter erroneously claim violation of their "constitutional rights.
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Mr. Moore, one of filmmaking's best-known provocateurs, seems to be decidedly uninterested in provoking anyone with this new offering, which had its hastily arranged premiere Tuesday night at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village.
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This reached new heights over the weekend, when police dressed as protesters were filmed taking part in arrests, and unsubstantiated accusations circulated claiming they acted as agents provocateurs carrying out the worst of the violence.
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The restless career of one of the great provocateurs of early modernism finally gets its due from MoMA, healthfully perturbing that institution's emphasis on linear progress and creative genius with radically shifting styles and tones.
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I'd then check the radio, making musical scat of the syndicated provocateurs before choosing a local station on the inferior AM bandwidth, where every word seems to pass through the filter of an indefinable past.
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More so than any other social network, it's a place where there's no such thing as bad press — at least for a certain breed of reality show-friendly public provocateurs with a flair for the outrageous.
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Being banned from Twitter might feel like the end of the world or the end of your career, but it isn't — unless, like most provocateurs, attention is your livelihood, and your paycheck depends on the spotlight.
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In the same way that a popular green cartoon frog internet meme was declared a hate symbol this year, online culture experts say this is just a case of bigoted provocateurs intent on disrupting the conversation.
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The danger came not from determined anti-Trump groups like Indivisible, or University Republicans, who support our congressman's small government agenda, but rather from outside provocateurs who have sparked violence at several events across the country.
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Why it matters: Experts worry that easily faked but convincing AI impersonations can turn society on its head — running rampant fake news, empowering criminals, and giving political opponents and foreign provocateurs tools to sow electoral chaos.
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Some Republican officials elected even mimicked the language of the conspiracy theory spread by Trump, citing "almost professional-agent provocateurs" who are "encouraged" by mysterious benefactors as their reason for voting in favor of SB 2150.
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Mr. Crimp and Ms. Mitchell, whether working separately or together, are among the British theater's most prominent provocateurs and have gained a considerable following on the Continent, where their maverick sensibilities have found a welcoming home.
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" While Delton stops short of calling for purges of anyone deemed "alt-right," she suggested that, given "the threat posed by the actions of alt-right provocateurs," past censorship and criminalization of speech "may bear revisiting.
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On April 21, 1977, National Food Day, microbiologist Michael Jacobson and his gang of provocateurs at the upstart Center for Science in the Public Interest scored a coup: hosting a vegetarian dinner at trehe White House.
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You have put-on provocateurs like Breitbart "tech editor" Milo Yiannopoulos, who coasted to mini-stardom online by preaching against P.C. culture, deflecting all criticism with his identity as an openly gay man who dresses like Macklemore.
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The Russian state prosecuted Sokolovsky under a relatively new "blasphemy" law that was first levied against the punk-rock provocateurs Pussy Riot, who were arrested in 2012 for an anti-government protest, also held in a cathedral.
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Here's what has happened: 'Alt-Right Delete' rally The Bay Area chapter of the International Socialist Organization invited students and other members of the Berkeley community who oppose "racist provocateurs" to an "Alt-Right Delete" news conference.
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For 12 years, Southern California promoter provocateurs The DoLaB have been the wild sibling of the Coachella festival, sharing the same home on the polo grounds, but doing their own thing, even amidst the festival's massive growth.
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Following revelations that Russian provocateurs had placed divisive ads on American social media during last year's election, Twitter announced changes to make such ads more transparent, and to allow users to see which ones are targeting them.
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Sadly, the few opposition candidates who did run seemed incapable of uniting into a cohesive block, but they also got no television time, their donors were scared off and their campaigns were dogged by hecklers and provocateurs.
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I'd turned my back on the bar and was hunched over my phone, responding to one of the lamebrained provocateurs at #moneymostly who seemed to exist only to spew insults, when suddenly the E.S.P. woman was back.
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But a very important distinction needs to made between those serious, principled conservative thought-leaders and the growing class of black, pro-Trump provocateurs looking to cash in, such as Kanye and video bloggers Diamond and Silk.
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Late on Thursday, the security services accused a Berber separatist movement of planning to disrupt the election by using agents provocateurs among the protesters to incite police violence, saying a student in the banned group had confessed.
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Today, the movement is a powerful, if controversial, force in conservative politics, championed by right-wing provocateurs, like Ann Coulter and the writers at Breitbart, and reviled by other Republican commentators for sowing discord in the party.
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And on the day after the election, professional provocateurs on talk radio and the internet may be ready to tell them to reject the results of the election and the peaceful transfer of power that comes with it.
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While Google executives rushed to condemn the memo and reaffirm their commitment to an inclusive workplace, alt-right provocateurs were embracing Damore as a political martyr, harassed out of his job by an oppressive and hypocritical liberal machine.
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But like the similar cinematic provocateurs John Waters, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Lars von Trier, the young Jackson mitigates the ugliness he's wallowing in by borrowing liberally from florid Hollywood melodramas with their big colors and bigger emotions.
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Related: Crocheted Cowboys, Nature Nudes, and Elmo Wind Chimes: 9 Highlights from the Dallas Art Fair Nina Simone's "Young, Gifted and Black" Inspires an Exhibition in South Africa Generations of Artist-Provocateurs Join Forces in 'Piss and Vinegar'
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump welcomed prominent conservative social media provocateurs to the White House on Thursday and said that along with himself, they are being treated unfairly by big tech firms, which he says suppress conservative voices.
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Had that exchange happened today, political operatives and Twitter provocateurs surely would have found a way to make it about Mr. Frankel — whose follow-up was actually an attempt to offer Mr. Ford a lifeline, he told me.
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Rather than the typical scenario of the stubborn old clashing with the unorthodox new, each group represents the provocateurs of their respective eras, employing satire, subversion, and intensity to dig into the bellies of their respective subject matters.
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Similarly, when Trump suggested that former adviser Carter Page would "blow away" all allegations of his administration's collaboration with Russian agents provocateurs, the press noted that Trump had denied ever speaking to Page just a few months ago.
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Over the decades, fringe made its way onto the runways of provocateurs including Yves Saint Laurent, who rendered it in raffia and silk, and, in more recent seasons, onto the catwalks of Valentino, Christopher Kane and Louis Vuitton.
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British security officials are also uneasy about the number of American counterterrorism investigations that use undercover agents who often appear to act as agent provocateurs; in the British view, such operations would be regarded as entrapment by courts.
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It stayed uncharacteristically quiet when the University of California, Berkeley, canceled speeches by two right-wing writers and provocateurs, Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter, earlier this year, issuing statements and Twitter messages, mainly after the controversy had passed.
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Kepel has argued that much of France's left-leaning intelligentsia fails to understand the nature of the threat the country faces — not just from foreign terrorists but also from the Islamist provocateurs in its exurban ghettos, the banlieues.
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So many rumors and falsehoods circulate on Taiwanese social media that it can be hard to tell whether they originate in Taiwan or in China, and whether they are the work of private provocateurs or of state agents.
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That activism made them prime targets for the right-wing smear machine: a collection of Fox News hosts, conservative pundits, conspiracy theorists, Twitter provocateurs, and YouTube commentators who piled on the teens in the wake of the shooting.
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"I think there is a renewed effort by provocateurs on the right to claim the mantle of free speech defenders, and position themselves as free speech martyrs," said Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.
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Donald Trump's war against the media reached perhaps its weirdest point on Thursday afternoon when the president hosted a "social media summit" that excluded Facebook and Twitter, but included a number of right-wing conspiracy-mongers, provocateurs, and grifters.
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These right-wing provocateurs want to change the landscape of traditional college campuses, infiltrate the minds of their audience to add to their growing base and bring as much attention and controversy as possible to the right-wing agenda.
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But Spencer is following the tried-and-true model of far-right provocateurs like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos, recognizing that university campuses and 19-year-old activists are easy marks for the snake-oil salespeople of white nationalism.
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Cuban authorities do not comment on police activity such as the detention of dissidents, who have limited support inside the island, and dismisses them as a tiny minority of provocateurs financed by the United States to subvert the government.
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Even before the summit started, it appeared to sow some discord among certain far-right provocateurs who had been banned on social media platforms for spreading hoaxes or inciting violence and then were not invited to the White House.
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Lam and the C.C.P. can then invoke any such deterioration, as well as, say, acts of arson — or even, some fear, crimes by agent provocateurs planted by the police — to call the movement a riot and its participants vandals.
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The group soon disbanded, but its albums became critical texts for provocateurs like David Byrne and Kurt Cobain, and have gained Holy Grail status with collectors—original pressings of early Mutantes records list for upward of a thousand dollars.
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The restless career of one of the great provocateurs of early modernism finally gets its due from the Museum of Modern Art, healthfully perturbing that institution's emphasis on linear progress and creative genius with radically shifting styles and tones.
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As such, the book was published without constraint in Australia (after the UK government failed to block it there), the US, and many other countries—then simply imported into the UK by curious people on vacation and other such provocateurs.
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Suddenly, the two provocateurs will be the caretakers of the "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom that has stood the test of time and underpinned one of the strongest military and diplomatic alliances in the West.
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But the arrival of an enormous new crop of Democratic freshmen — a group that features a handful of outspoken, liberal provocateurs — has only fueled the GOP's appetite for branding the Democrats as out of touch with the voters they serve.
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The Interpreter WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump, reiterating his call to restrict Muslim immigration to the United States, has adopted a tactic that has long been a mainstay of strongmen and sectarian provocateurs: portraying outsiders as a threat to women's safety.
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The protests in Hong Kong give China an opportunity to quell that discontent by redirecting their attention toward a common enemy — the demonstrators, who, according to government accounts broadcast on state television, are violent and often paid provocateurs doing America's bidding.
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We've watched Project Veritas videos where liberal provocateurs plan to incite violence at Trump rallies, gas buildings or trigger sprinkler systems to disrupt pro-Trump gatherings, or commit terrorist acts on subway trains to prevent Trump supporters from assembling in Washington.
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The same month, at Shakespeare in the Park in New York, a set of right-wing provocateurs staged actions during a Trump-themed production of ''Julius Caesar,'' rushing the stage and screaming, ''The blood of Steve Scalise is on your hands!
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The First Amendment safeguard is a major reason that colleges, especially public ones, have become a favored forum for right-leaning speakers, from mainstream conservatives to racial provocateurs of the so-called alt-right, a movement that embraces white nationalism.
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" Less than two hours earlier, two notorious right-wing provocateurs, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, held a press conference in Arlington, Virginia, with Kelvin Whelly, the self-identified ex-Marine, which was promoted with a sign saying "Elizabeth Warren Cougar?
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Incorrigible doom provocateurs and earnest grunge obsessives Thou played three (!) shows in Brooklyn this past weekend, including two sold-out nights at Saint Vitus Bar and a snowy matinee at the Silent Barn alongside Noisey faves Vile Creature and Cowardice.
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They speak to students and fellow activists, including, in one chapter, a fascinating discussion with an antifa activist who talks in some detail about the laborious and diligent research and outreach antifa attempts in order to avoid physical confrontations with conservative provocateurs.
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Erdogan also said in an interview with French television LCI, broadcast ahead of his visit to Paris on Friday, that foreigners were acting as provocateurs in Iran, echoing comments by Iranian leaders after a week of unrest in towns across the country.
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Through COINTELPRO, the FBI placed informants inside the Panthers, provoked violent internal feuds among Panther leaders through anonymous letters, and planted agent provocateurs in Panthers meetings to stir up talk about armed uprisings that would be used later to justify violent police raids.
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The most likely scenario, however, is that the Wall Street Journal piece was simply the oeuvre of a pair of provocateurs -- two old partisans from the 1990s who are simply seeking to reclaim their space, and relevance -- in the current political environment.
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The schism here is playing out in other Republican primaries, where firebrand candidates, mimicking the president's inflammatory style and focus on immigration and identity-related issues, are unsettling other party leaders who worry that nominating provocateurs could undermine their prospects in November.
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HONG KONG — In the wake of vigilante attacks and brawls that have shaken Yangon, Myanmar's largest and most cosmopolitan city, the country's religious authorities are ramping up a crackdown on hard-line Buddhist monks who have played increasingly public roles as sectarian provocateurs.
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A decade ago, Mr. Lewis, then a merchandising executive at the Gap, and his partner, Hau Nguyen, who owns hair salons, invited the collector Joy Simmons to their home here, where they had art by popular provocateurs like Jeff Koons and Paul McCarthy.
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While there are respected conservative thinkers on issues like tax reform, immigration and health care, they say, provocateurs like Mr. Yiannopoulos suck up most of the oxygen, becoming the public face of the movement and pushing more serious ideas to the sideline.
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The past year has provided several jumpy moments, from a political crisis in Macedonia that, with help from provocateurs in the Russian media, threatened to spill into violence, to tensions between Serbia and Kosovo that terrified European diplomats at the start of the year.
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Twitter relies primarily on its users to report abuses and has a consistent set of policies, but Dorsey personally weighs in on some high-profile content decisions himself, reportedly overruling his staff's decisions to ban content by alt-right provocateurs Alex Jones and Richard Spencer.
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Arguing that Silicon Valley is stifling their speech and suppressing right-wing content, publishers and provocateurs on the right are eyeing a public-relations battle against online giants like Google and Facebook, the same platforms they once relied on to build a national movement.
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It's been some years since Larry Clark's days as one of American cinema's foremost provocateurs, a pioneering photographer who took his fascination with dead-end lives, drug use, and adolescent sexuality and channeled it into controversial, acclaimed films such as "Kids" (1995) and "Bully" (2001).
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Playful and puerile, the current show from the collective Gelatin, "New York Golem," at Greene Naftali, corresponds with the ethos of its earlier work as well as the long history of Austrian art provocateurs like Egon Schiele, the Vienna Actionists, Valie Export and Franz West.
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If the United States does respond militarily, Iran will most likely escalate further; if the United States does nothing, hard-liners in Iran will be emboldened to try new and more outrageous provocations while other global provocateurs — North Korea, Russia, China — watch and learn.
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Arguing that Silicon Valley is stifling their speech and suppressing right-wing content, publishers and provocateurs on the right are eyeing a public-relations battle against online giants such as Google and Facebook, the same platforms they once relied on to build a national movement.
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As uncomfortably close as these performances may seem, a mental comparison with the lunatic antics of the Viennese Actionists, the all-male band of provocateurs who staged pageants of blood, gore, sex, and death at this same time, attests to their warmth, humor, and relative subtlety.
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In 1973, a year before Nixon resigned in the Watergate scandal, Judge Keith ordered the government to disclose whether it had used sabotage, agents provocateurs and "other espionage activities," including a burglary at a law office, to make its case against militants known as the Weathermen.
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After years of silence, a Senate committee convened by Senator Frank Church of Idaho in 1975 finally revealed how deeply the Cointelpro program degraded American democracy by infiltrating and causing dissension within organizations, stoking rivalries, and even placing agent provocateurs inside protest movements to initiate violence.
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Amanda Gallo, the idealistic heroine of the new novel "Amanda Wakes Up," is a morning anchor at FAIR News, a cable news network that brands itself as "True and Equal," goes easy on right-wing provocateurs and mandates miniskirts and leg bronzer for its blond female hosts.
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Police officers charged with solving a series of baffling crimes, or government provocateurs and buffoons, or the authoritarian figure who needs to impose himself upon external events in order to plumb the secrets of his own identity—I've been able to exposit the lonely beating heart of those guys.
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There is a danger that the only people who are prepared to go into public life will be a weird collection of ideologues who are willing to sacrifice everything for the cause, provocateurs who make a living out of outrage, and bland functionaries who have nothing interesting to say.
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The undercover videos showed various Democratic operatives claiming they had hired provocateurs and mobs to incite violence and disrupt Trump rallies, including one who said she had organized the massive protest that turned physical and led to the cancellation of a Trump rally in Chicago this past March.
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Always accompanied by two bodyguards after men he called provocateurs tried to draw him into fights at election meetings, he tells voters he wants a change in Russia's leadership and a return to genuine political debate, with less money spent on defense and more on health and education.
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In the aftermath of the 2016 election, a new cast of political characters popped up on the national media's radar: right-wing provocateurs who had built previously ignored followings on the internet and who seemed suddenly relevant as establishment journalists and politicians tried to understand Donald Trump's surprising victory.
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At the top end — the mouth, let's call it — enter the raw materials of propaganda: the memes cooked up by anyone who wants to manipulate what the media covers, whether political campaigns, terrorist groups, state-sponsored trolls or the homegrown provocateurs who hang out at extremist online communities.
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While there are legitimate questions about how representative those voices are -- and indeed, what role Russian trolls and political provocateurs played in dragging the comments into the sewer -- the cacophony from social media has at times made it easier to simply tune out those voices rather than engage them.
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Though it's less well-known than her Bad Boys series—which was later published as the book Punks, Poets and Provocateurs, NYC Bad Boys 1977-19783 (Insight Editions, 2015)—Resnick's Wild Women series captures the revolutionary spirit and creative power of artists like Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, and Susan Sontag.
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But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and "woke" dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female "Ghostbusters" and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay.
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With so-called alt-right provocateurs like Stephen K. Bannon marching into power, and armies of women in bright pink hats marching in protest, it's a little hard to say where the literate centrist coastal male with a taste for Raymond Carver — that is, the traditional Esquire man — fits in.
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His pictures were inspired by the turn-of-the-century German Jugendstil ("youth style," or Art Nouveau), graphic artist provocateurs who regularly outraged both bourgeois and aristocratic Junker classes by poking holes in their masks and debunking their pretensions in the notorious weekly satirical journal Simplicissimus (also known as Der Simpl in the 1940s).
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"The so-called 'Privilege Grant' promoted by Milo Yiannopoulos is part of a larger pattern by provocateurs and outright haters to create division and sow controversy on campus by asserting that whites are underprivileged due to the gains made by women, minorities and the LGBTQ community," Oren Segal, Director of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism told CNBC.
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A few days before that, Mr. Trump shared on his Instagram account a picture showing the faces of his father, himself and several Trump supporters with Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that has been co-opted as a mascot by the "alt-right," an informal assembly of white nationalists, anti-immigration conservatives and anti-Semitic internet provocateurs.
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During his incarceration, a #FreeTommy street and online protest emerged in support of Robinson, gaining him a new following in the United States that saw his cause taken up by right-wing provocateurs such as Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Ann Coulter and Mike Cernovich and receive tweets of support from Donald Trump Jr. and Roseanne Barr.
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The desire to wink at extremism has remained — witness his Charlottesville response — but it's been somewhat kept in check by staff and aides, and the mix of white nationalists and alt-right provocateurs who fastened onto him in 2016 have seen their stars dim and a much more conventional group of right-wing grifters take their place.
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He said social media giants like Facebook and Twitter need to do more to combat the spread of extremist material on their services, pushed out by provocateurs like Tommy Robinson, founder of the English Defence League, and Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, who circulated anti-Muslim videos that were controversially retweeted by Donald Trump.
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During the infamous COINTELPRO era revealed by those committees' investigations, the FBI actively worked to suppress the movement for equal rights for women, directed violence toward the civil rights movement, placed provocateurs in the movement to end the war in Vietnam, and conducted a character assassination campaign targeting a world-historic leader we now appropriately honor as a national hero.
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When the Anti-Defamation League, a century-old institution founded to combat anti-Semitism, released its guide to the "Alt Right and Alt Lite" last year, Ohio's Republican state treasurer, Josh Mandel, who is Jewish, actually expressed support for two of the people on the list: Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, conservative provocateurs who have found notoriety in the Trump era.
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During this time, her New York contemporaries, feminist artists like the sculptor Lynda Benglis (famous for her nude 1974 Artforum ad — inspired by Chicago — in which she posed with a dildo) or Judith Bernstein (who outraged critics and gallery-goers alike with her large-scale phallic drawings) were establishing themselves as deliberate provocateurs: Their goal was to make men uncomfortable.
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Tucker Carlson, currently facing some advertiser boycotts over a segment in which he accused immigrants of making America "poorer and dirtier and more divided," resorted earlier this week to a favorite tactic of right-wing provocateurs — playing the victim and insisting on his right to speak his mind rather than engaging in an actual debate on the issue at hand.
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There was also Breitbart News, where provocateurs like Milo Yiannopoulos fed raw meat to a rabid anti-Clinton, anti-globalist, anti-SJW, and Islamophobic base; Glittering Steel, where Bannon made Leni Riefenstahl-ish movies about the corruption of the Clintons and the need for populist outsiders; and Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that helped bring us Brexit and that could provide sophisticated analysis and targeting to campaigns like Trump's.
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So it's no surprise that the rise of social media has coincided with calls for restrictions on speech, both online and off, from narrow campaigns to strip Steve Bannon of speaking gigs or get sites to evict alt-right trolls and provocateurs like Alex Jones — who was banned permanently last week by Twitter — and Steve Bannon to more broad-based pushes to regulate big tech platforms at the federal level.
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Peddlers of Medical Misinformation Are Using Social Media &aposCensorship&apos as a Selling PointNo one has ever accused Mike Adams, the self-proclaimed Health Ranger, of being an understated guy, …Read more ReadAll were gathered for the president's White House Social Media Summit, a megaphone gifted by the nation's chief executive to a host of right-wing provocateurs who'd gathered to moan and sob over being supposedly "censored" by websites like Twitter.
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Late last year, the high-fashion radical pranksters of Vetements released what would become one of the brand's signature pieces: a misshapen hoodie with a logo on the chest that played off the traditional Champion script logo, rotating the oversize C 90 degrees to make a V. Ava Nirui, a writer, artist and part of a loose group of bootleg-influenced design provocateurs who use corporate identities as raw material, thought the price, around $700, was outrageous.
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Never have we been so suspicious or more ready to expose and accuse, and yet daily we accept fictions as the basis of reality, from the posturings of bots and provocateurs on Twitter to the radiantly lit, commercially sponsored posts of Instagram influencers for whom there is no distinction between the personal and the corporate, to the seemingly innocuous deceptions of friends who obsessively filter photos and curate their feeds to present a better version of themselves.
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Populists may be authoritarians, ethnonationalists, nativists, leftists, rightists, xenophobes, proto-Fascists, Fascists, autocrats, losers from globalization, moneyed provocateurs, conservatives, socialists, and just plain unhappy or frustrated or bored people — anyone, from the crazed to the rational, from the racist to the tolerant, energized by social media to declare the liberal democratic rules-based consensus that has broadly prevailed since the end of the Cold War is not for them for the simple reason that it has not delivered for them, whether economically or socially or culturally.
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The 103-year-old artist is hitting his mid-career stride in a full sprint—he won a Macarthur Foundation "genius" grant last year and the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize this year, and he has a major retrospective currently up at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in DC. Paglen has emerged as one of the most incisive and relevant provocateurs of our heavily surveiled age, a producer of timely and often tech-infused work, much of which has focused on the security state and the increasingly quaint notion of privacy.
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