Feels Like Kevin☘️🇮🇪🌎💚

The Irish Times's Conor Gallagher uses Mark Malone of H&CC as a source for his reporting on political extremism. Mark Malone is an open anarchist who has no professional qualifications to qualify as an extremism expert. He employs no methodology that can provide reliable data to develop any useful models of extremism for the Irish scene and when challenged by me, he was unable to identify basic social network analysis methods employed by extremism experts. He is a radically-partisan activist posing as an expert whose 'methods' amount to guilt by association of people he dislikes - and spends an inordinate amount of time fighting with and abusing - on social media. In other words, Conor Gallagher is coming to bat for a lecturer who faked his credentials below because he platforms another guy who also pretends to be an expert in the field of extremism and misinformation - that is, he's hip-deep in the "culture war battles" he speaks of. Felle was a darling of the national media because he gave partisan and activist journalists a sheen of credibility for their agenda-driven pieces. The only thing "exhausting" is Conor Gallagher trying to pretend legitimate dismay about academic credential fraud is a "culture war" issue. Very poor deflection. 👇👇👇