In the two days since his calamitous appearance in New York, memes mocking Robert De Niro have flooded social media, with some drawing inspiration from the actor’s filmography, including “Mean Streets,” “The Irishman,” “Joker,” and even Comedy Central’s Roast of Alec Baldwin.
FBI documents obtained by the Heritage Foundation through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show the Bureau associating a wide variety of internet slang with “extremism.” According to the FBI, words like “based” and “Chad” are signs of violent extremism.
White people posting memes featuring black people may be guilty of “digital blackface,” according to a CNN senior writer who warned against the phenomenon, which he describes as one of the “most insidious forms of contemporary racism.”
Sweden’s Agency for Psychological Defence has launched a campaign warning Swedes about memes they say spread misleading information.
