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Will Carless

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Will Carless

@willcarless

National Correspondent, Extremism & Emerging Issues @USAToday. Priors @Reveal, @PRI. Wcarless@usatoday.com seedisclaimer.com I delete my tweets regularly

United States

Joined April 2009

Will Carless
@willcarless
Oct 30, 2023
#BREAKING A trove of documents from the Sagadahoc Sheriff's Office in Maine reveals a few bombshells about Robert Card, who shot and killed 18 people last week. Including that deputies were contacted by Card's ex-wife and son in MAY and told he was a threat. Story coming.
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Will Carless
@willcarless
May 1, 2024
The scenes at #UCLA last night were some of the wildest I’ve ever seen on American soil. Police stood by and watched for hours as literally hundreds of felony assaults took place. It was all captured by dozens of photographers. Shocking.
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Will Carless
@willcarless
Nov 2, 2023
When @libsoftiktok tweets, death threats, bomb threats & harassment increasingly follow. Threats & harassment followed the account's targets dozens of times, in at least 21 states, I confirmed from an exclusive @mmfa analysis: And it's getting worse:
usatoday.com
When Libs of TikTok tweets, threats increasingly follow
The pattern – Libs of TikTok tweets, then a bomb threat arrives – is more pervasive than previously known. And it has ratcheted up in the past two months.
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Will Carless
@willcarless
Apr 5, 2023
Replying to @IwriteOK
He clearly was all out of Fs to give, too
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Will Carless
@willcarless
May 2, 2024
1/ .@UCLA just put out a statement about clearing the #UCLA protest and, wow Leaders say they *had to shut the protest down because there was too much violence between the camp and counter-protesters. But the camp was *attacked by a violent mob And law enforcement watched it
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Will Carless
@willcarless
Apr 4, 2023
We need to do better as an industry. No disrespect to Ben, who is awesome, but when more media show up to rallies than participants, we need to take a long, hard look at what we’re covering and why.
follow @bencollins on bluesky
@oneunderscore__
Apr 4, 2023
At the Marjorie Taylor Greene protest. Total circus. Number of reporters still dwarfing protesters but the vibe is… weirder.
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Will Carless
@willcarless
Nov 7, 2023
Post the unedited recording of the whole interview, Chaya. Be my guest!
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Will Carless
@willcarless
Nov 2, 2023
Fun fact: @ChayaRaichik10 only agreed to an interview if she could record (and publish) the whole transcript. She has not done so, AFAIK
Ari Drennen
@AriDrennen
Nov 2, 2023
Unbelievably revealing (and rare) interview of Chaya Raichik in this fantastic USA Today piece from @willcarless detailing the full impact of Libs of TikTok's campaign against schools, libraries, hospitals, and more.
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Will Carless
@willcarless
Jan 20, 2024
How to make a local story a national one 101:
NBC News
@NBCNews
Jan 20, 2024
Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day it published a story about rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house, the owner and publisher say. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…
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Will Carless
@willcarless
May 1, 2024
This post needs context: The violence was directed *at* campus protestors, by a group of counter-protesters who showed up to antagonize the protest/presumably try to break it up. They attacked the camp repeatedly for hours. Police/leaders took hours to respond to this.
Mayor Karen Bass
@MayorOfLA
May 1, 2024
The violence unfolding this evening at UCLA is absolutely abhorrent and inexcusable. LAPD has arrived on campus.
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Will Carless
@willcarless
Nov 6, 2023
My story last week was about how @LibsofTikTok tweets have led to harassment, bomb threats & death threats dozens of times. Chaya Raichik told me she condemned any threats. Here's her post from today:
follow @bencollins on bluesky
@oneunderscore__
Nov 6, 2023
About as despicable as it gets.
usatoday.com
When Libs of TikTok tweets, threats increasingly follow
The pattern – Libs of TikTok tweets, then a bomb threat arrives – is more pervasive than previously known. And it has ratcheted up in the past two months.
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Will Carless
@willcarless
Nov 3, 2023
As I told Chaya in our interview, I absolutely condemn any threats to the subjects of my stories. If anyone has evidence that dozens of people I’ve written about in the last 2 yrs received threats PLEASE let me know. Because I would fundamentally change what I’m doing if so …
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Will Carless
@willcarless
Feb 26, 2024
Having interviewed Chaya, the simple fact is she’s not very bright.
Ari Drennen
@AriDrennen
Feb 24, 2024
"Sounds like you do want to tell people what to do in their house": Taylor Lorenz presses Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik to explain her issue with trans adults.
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Will Carless
@willcarless
Apr 25, 2024
1/ I’ve spent the last 3 years getting endless emails from people obsessed with the idea that the BLM movement/Antifa are the real threat to America People need to understand how this is ingrained in like half the country. The campus protests will be used in the same way …
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