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US administration social media posts echo white supremacist messaging
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In the past month, the Trump administration and US government agencies have made dozens more social-media posts that include iconography associated with far-right extremist groups.
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Evan Gorelick
WASHINGTON - The posts have referred to neo-Nazi literature, ethnic cleansing and QAnon conspiracies, mused about deporting nearly a third of the US population, and promoted lyrics from an anthem bellowed by the far-right militants of the Proud Boys.
Their authors are not on society’s fringe. They are in the offices of the White House and the departments of Homeland Security and Labor, using official government accounts.
