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Michael Edison Hayden
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A U.S. State Department official oversaw the Washington D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization, @Hatewatch has determined.

Read my investigation here: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
@Hatewatch Matthew Q. Gebert, operating as "Coach Finstock" worked with Michael "Enoch" Peinovich's organization The Right Stuff (TRS).

Peinovich's emails to a source helped corroborate his identity. Gebert and his wife are the third and fourth of TRS affiliates I've IDd this year.
@Hatewatch Gebert's wife, Anna Vuckovic, blogged as "Wolfie James" for TRS's website and another white nationalist site.

Her opsec was floppy and sloppy just like Peinovich's. Here she is giving away her location.

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
@Hatewatch .@Twitter has served as a radicalization engine for many extremists. I have seen it firsthand.

Gebert, as "Coach Finstock," manned at least 10 handles that I could find.

We have a very serious problem with radicalization in America and social media execs play a role in it.
.@UR_Ninja followed up and found Gebert posting as “Coach Finstock” in leaked Discord chats relating to Charlottesville and Unite the Right.

Great work:
unicornriot.ninja/2019/exposed-s…
This is wild but not surprising given Trump's history on @Twitter.

Apparently, he quote tweeted Gebert in October 2015.

This would be around the time Gebert was radicalizing, according to his own account.

Reminds me of when Trump thanked Paul Nehlen:
@Twitter The State Department has put Gebert on leave, per @politico:

“It is inconceivable he got security clearance twice.”

politico.com/story/2019/08/…
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Michael Edison Hayden
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NEW: Gab's *own web host* tells @Hatewatch that CEO Andrew Torba is misleading the Federal Government in SEC filings and likely has just "a few thousand or a few tens of thousands" of users: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
Torba blames his website's struggle to perform basic tasks on bots. He has insinuated the bots came from government workers or leftists.

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Michael Edison Hayden
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Gab still brims with hate, celebrations of domestic terrorism, and extremist organizing.

The website is bleeding money but survives thanks to an Obama-era law and the crowdfunding company @StartEngineLA.

@Hatewatch went deep into the site's financials:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
There's a lot in here, so I'm going to pull out some specifics. We now know what was already assumed about Gab: Alleged Tree of Life killer Robert Bowers used the websites internal messaging service to plot with other extremists: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
We also have confirmed Gab's host. That's Sibyl Systems LTD.

Sibyl is doing the work of preserving those posts that celebrate Timothy McVeigh, Anders Behring Breivik, and Dylann Roof and helping to give Gab its basic infrastructure right now: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
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Michael Edison Hayden
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Spectre, one of Twitter’s most notorious trolls and a white nationalist podcaster who has stalked and harassed reporters, women and minorities for years... is actually a journalist himself @Hatewatch has learned splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
You may say ay yo Hayden... where do I know Spectre from again?

Well, during the Capital Gazette newspaper attack on June 28 that left five dead... he was bullying those victims *while the mass shooting was still taking place*
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