Twitter permanently banned @gatewaypundit yesterday. With it gone, here's what the retweet network for thegatewaypundit(dot)com looks like: two main clusters (English and Japanese), and the main nodes are @mei98862477, @kirstiealley, and @CassandraRules.
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Japanese-language accounts have been turning up prominently in US-centric right wing Twitter content for a while. Back in January 2020, 23.3% of tweets linking now-defunct QAnon site qmap(dot)pub were in Japanese. https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1214697714610556929
Around the time of the November 2020 US election, Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and Rudy Giuliani all experienced a large influx of Japanese-language followers. #KrakenWorldTour2020 https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1333940501091901440
Japanese-language Twitter accounts also turn up prominently in tweets linking to right-wing alternative social media site Gab. #AltWankers https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1349366256831504387