"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

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"acolyte"

Fair and balanced journalism 🙄

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