How the far-right group behind AFPAC is using Twitter to grow its movement
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A group of far-right youth activists looking to capitalize on a recent conference it held in Orlando, Florida, that promoted white nationalistic rhetoric, is recruiting a new round of interns into the movement by turning to one of the last major social media platforms that has yet to ban them: Twitter.
Nicholas Fuentes, a far-right online streamer who founded the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) and the "Groyper" movement -- a loose coalition of mostly young far-right extremists -- has been banned from nearly all major social media platforms, including YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and most recently the new voice chat app Clubhouse, which last weekend suspended Fuentes' account for "hate speech."