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Surprise, Surprise: The 'Alt-Right' Claims Credit For ‘Last Jedi’ Backlash

An angry fanboy told HuffPost he used bots to flood Rotten Tomatoes with negative reviews of the new "Star Wars" movie.

date: December 21, 2017

author(s): Bill Bradley and Matthew Jacobs

description: The authors of the article were contacted by self-proclaimed members of alt-right who claim to have artificially lowered the Star Wars: The Last Jedi "audience score" on Rotten Tomatoes by employing bots. Authors admit they do not know if their informant was telling the truth, and, if he was, whether the false reviews had a visible impact on the overall score. The article also mentions a petition on change.org, that asks for removing Star Wars: The Last Jedi from Star Wars canon.

More on the petition here.

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Sign the Petition

The Walt Disney Company: Have Disney strike Star Wars Episode VIII from the official canon.

date: December 2017, ongoing

author(s): Henry Walsh

description: A petition to The Walt Disney Company. Its creator wants the company to issue a statement that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is not an official Star Wars film. The description under the petition states that the way the film treated Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) is unacceptable, ant that it destroyed everything the fans liked about the franchise. Currently (June 2018) the petition has more than 100,000 signatures out of the expected 150,000.