The “lootcrew” trolls pop up on Twitter to make false and racist claims about looting.
When violent unrest broke out in Milwaukee after the fatal police shooting of 23-year-old Sylville Smith, Twitter became filled with tweets using the #MilwaukeeLootCrew hashtag to talk about looting, or to share photos of allegedly stolen goods.
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Tweets using the hashtag often included overtly racist messages from troll accounts:
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"Lootcrew" started in 2012 during Hurricane Sandy, when a group of online trolls called the Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) used #SandyLootCrew for tweets like these:
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The image on the left is from a 2005 post to an online bulletin board; the image on the right has also been online since at least 2005.
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