"acolyte"
Fair and balanced journalism 🙄
"follower" is a lazy category error
"[fiatjaf] told Forbes that his political views were shaped by the laissez-faire Austrian school of economics"
The article could have cited Wikipedia
"Carvalho's political views were summed up in one of his tweets: "Capitalism is the godfather and protector of communism.""
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olavo_de_Carvalho
But complexity doesn't suit a hit piece
Discussion
One may wonder why Katherine Long thinks that an "acolyte" of an "authoritarian" would develop a decentralized messaging protocol to enable censorship resistant communication for everyone
If you post links to someone's website or attend a course run by them you are now their "acolyte"
The standard of modern journalism
/ thought policing