The Shadow Web Cesspool of Demented Sociopathy

The MeWe user posted several messages over months threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, saying he should be shot, and “die allready (sic).” Photo by Tony Caldwell/Postmedia/File

"If we Canadians do not go in force and march to Ottowa [sic] and storm the government, physically take out and down the government, we are all slaves of China, socialism, and Communist Canada."

"[Facebook overreacts] all because I said, kill Trudeau war is war freedom of speech freedom of expressed opinion. Nothing more."

"Civil war arm up and delete the deep state… this is a f*cking war."

"Find seek and kill this asshole along with Biden, Clinton, [G]Bates, Fauci… Kill them all."

"[Canadians], take off your mask, there is no such thing as a virus that is spreadable."

Canadian user, alternate social media platform MeWe

"MeWe's terms of service prohibits inciting violence, hate, harassment, bullying, illegal activity, etc."

"Due to recent rapid membership growth, the company is currently expanding its Trust and Safety Team and adding new tools to help moderators find and remove TOS(terms of service)-violators [to] stop known bad actors at the door and find them if they've gotten inside."

"This prevents any information or opinions -- false or true -- from being broadly promoted. Members need to deliberately seek out information for themselves and cannot be targeted by others who wish to reach and manipulate their thoughts, purchase decisions, or votes."

David Westreich, company spokesman

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) flagged posts by a user of MeWe, identifying the user as a supporter of domestic terror-related activity. MEMRI is well known for its function of tracking and documenting extremist and terrorist communications, bringing their messages to the public eye; essentially 'outing' them and their agendas in a bid to educate the wider public, while alerting public authorities to their poisonous online presence.

Following the violent siege that took place in Washington, D.C. where a rioting swarm of far-right protesters flooded and entered the Capitol, making a mockery of their government and trashing the building, the Canadian user began posting on an alternate platform -- a diversion used by many hard-right types once Facebook and Twitter began seriously moderating misinformation -- with the intention of mustering an attack on the Canadian capital, ostensibly for the purpose of overthrowing the Canadian government.

At the same time the user began posting assassination threats against both politicians and public health figures in Canada. Targeting among others, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, and the chief medical officer of health of Alberta, Dr.Deena Hinshaw. And nor were Americans overlooked, with President Joe Biden, Dr.Anthony Fauci as head of the U.S.medical response to the pandemic, Microsoft's Bill Gates, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg were also included.

Alerted to these postings by MEMRI, the platform declared it has banned the user. Before all this, however, months of angry, violent posts naming a list of people to be killed were on show, a list that included health officials, posts targeting political decision-making, and social restrictions relating to COVID-19 avoidance precautions. Inspired by the events in Washington, where a core group of Canadians had migrated to take part in the frenzied protests, the user had thought to incite a similar siege on Canada's Parliament.

The MeWe poster made liberal use of handgun emojis to emphasize his urging toward violence; a sentiment of "hate beyond hate", as he put it. Several messages were posted that Trudeau should be shot, and "die allready [sic]", handgun emojis at the ready. Both Trudeau and Singh were characterized as the "2 most wanted DEAD people in Canada". The man posted under the username DAVil1 OSCP, location Canada, as an "OSCP consultant". 

An educated guess for OSCP is offered as "Offensive Security Certified Professional" in ethical hacking, or "white hat" computer security searching for routes in computer systems to block off from malicious attacks. According to the spokesperson for MeWe, its corporate model was meant to support privacy and opposing surveillance capitalism, and cannot obviously be linked to offensive postings by social degenerates.

"[MeWe] stands head and shoulders above the current social media giants [with no newsfeed manipulation or method that messages are amplified beyond those selecting them to read]."

In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 photo, supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Jose Luis Magana)