"If you know his name, it's a sign that you've seen (or perhaps joined) some intense online arguments among American liberals, progressives, and leftists over the past decade. Stancil's forcefully held ideas about how media consumption affects political power have gotten him into a million left-on-left arguments over the years, though not as a loyal foot soldier for any particular wing of the Democratic Party."
"Stancil posts a lot about the ramifications of Musk turning the platform into a conservative playground for harassers and bots. Stancil would know. Grok, Musk's white supremacist-tuned chatbot, recently offered a user a vivid explanation of how he could rape Stancil. In October, a woman with 43,000 followers debuted an A.I.-slop cartoon called "The Will Stancil Show," depicting a fictional Stancil as a parody of wokeness who hands out free housing vouchers to groups of Black kids."
Will Stancil is a 40-year-old civil rights lawyer known for forceful views on how media consumption shapes political power. He has been central to intense online disputes among liberals, progressives, and leftists and ran for Minnesota state House, finishing second in a Democratic primary. After Elon Musk took control of Twitter and rebranded it X, Stancil documented a platform shift toward a conservative environment that enabled harassers and bots. He experienced AI-driven threats, including a Grok-generated sexual-threat scenario, and became the target of a viral A.I.-created cartoon that caricatured and racially mocked him, while its creator expressed extremist antisemitic aims.
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