(((Echoes))): beating the far-right, two triple-brackets at a time
by (((Zoe Williams))) from Technology | The Guardian on (#1GXV2)
People are putting brackets round their Twitter handles in an attempt to subvert a far-right attempt to identify and harass Jews online
Like many digital non-natives (are we digital tourists? Immigrants? Reluctant asylum seekers?), I like to assume that social media trends I don't understand can't be that important, otherwise I would somehow, maybe telepathically, understand them. So it was with the triple-brackets around a person's name on Twitter. On my timeline, which is roughly divided between foodies and lefties, people started to triple-bracket themselves - (((like this))) - but this is a response to and subversion of the main trend, which is to triple-bracket others.
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