Thread by @DonovanFarley

Any effort by @TwitterSafety seeking to offset reprehensible disinformation that flourishes here and the carnage that disinformation has wrought should absolutely include banning @MrAndyNgo. Few on this platform have purposefully trafficked in deceit that results in violence 1/

to the degree Ngo has. Over and over he willfully deceives his followers into a frenzy that results in death and rape threats for journalists and anyone else Mr. Ngo decides is worthy of his scorn. He knowingly collaborates with neo-fascists & knowingly helps them spread 2/

dangerous disinformation that riles up his large audience. @MrAndyNgo knows full well his followers engage in repugnant harassment of anyone he mentions yet he never rebukes their behavior. These are the actions of a propagandist, @TwitterSafety, the type of propagandist 3/

responsible for yesterday's insurrection. Outside of Donald Trump's circle, it's difficult to think of an American who has done more harm with their Twitter account these last four years than Andy Ngo. @TwitterSafety

In this same thread in which 4 Chan was openly discussing ways to harass my family they were also discussing @MrAndyNgo’s tweets about as he posted them.

https://twitter.com/donovanfarley/status/1308493219315945472

Ngo steals actual journalists’ work from the frontlines and then presents an edited version stripped of context to his followers so often it’s become his signature move. @TwitterSafety, your check mark legitimizes this blight on journalism and endangers countless Americans.

.@TwitterSafety when a Proud Boy associate went on a felonious rampage in Portland and was later arrested it was @MrAndyNgo who quickly came to the hate group's defense saying he reached out to the "organization" in order to clear things up. How nice.

Consider that when @TwitterSafety began banning accounts who traffic in dangerous disinformation Ngo’s response was to have a contingency plan ready. The man is essentially acknowledging his misdeeds and guilt.

This is the end game of @MrAndyNgo's rhetoric. He lies about protests and antifascists and then lies about actual journalists who don't share his worldview. This is the result: open discussions about going after me *and* my family. I'm a straight white guy—it's much 1/2

worse for others. Also, I have some very large media outlets looking out for me and a sizable following—some random protester who the cops happen to arrest doesn't have those protections when Ngo doxes them and the torrent of hate begins. @TwitterSafety

Ngo’s constant lies and exaggerations about the deviousness and tactics of antifascists have undoubtedly added to the preposterous assertion that antifa was behind the attack on the Capital. That discourse distracts from the investigation and delays justice. @TwitterSafety He 1/2

https://twitter.com/knownothingtv/status/1347767106100748289

sows the seeds of disinformation that grow into the lies that Trump Co. and their sycophants on Capitol Hill regurgitate to the American people as sacred fact. And Ngo has enriched himself to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars on @Twitter while doing so. @TwitterSafety

There is a 100% chance @MrAndyNgo’s deeply deceitful rhetoric has also influenced and informed the seismic difference between the way law enforcement reacts to BLM protesters vs. the far-right groups, who are in fact much more dangerous. @TwitterSafety

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1347740163582152705

🧵cont: I stepped away from this thread for 24-hours so Ngo's legion of terribles could amass and begin spewing their bile, & they did not disappoint. Note the 2nd pic is aimed at the marginalized, not me. @TwitterSafety I'm sure you can explore the comments, but for now...

... let's discuss the many easily disprovable ways Andy Ngo uses @Twitter to purposefully sow violent discord during protests. On 8/17/19 hundreds of far-right people flew to Portland to wreak havoc on the city. As usual Ngo used the opportunity to disinform (@TwitterSafety)

to a repugnant degree—fortunately, his lies are easily invalidated thanks to hard-working *actual* journalists (and activists) who were actually on the ground that day (Ngo was not). Mr. Ngo began his parade of misrepresentations by saying the below. But I was (@TwitterSafety)

there when this incident occurred. I encountered this group—who were so obviously high on some sort of crank you can even see it in my photos—on the outskirts of the Leftist side and I immediately clocked them as serious trouble. (@TwitterSafety)

https://twitter.com/DonovanFarley/status/1162833681125261312?s=20

They ceased calling every passerby "bitch" and "faggot" when they noted my press pass, and as I fell back a bit to better observe them they crossed the street they went directly to a group of people in black bloc and (@TwitterSafety)

https://twitter.com/DonovanFarley/status/1162836208294060032?s=20

immediately found the fight they were clearly trying to instigate. They were unequivocally the aggressors and continued looking for fights after myself and some antifa medics broke things up. (@TwitterSafety)

https://twitter.com/DonovanFarley/status/1162837525674639360?s=20

Here are the far-right aggressors a short time later. (@TwitterSafety)

https://twitter.com/DonovanFarley/status/1162843227243741184?s=20

As for Ngo's "no police" claim? Another lie easily disproved. "Why would @MrAndyNgo throw the @PortlandPolice under the bus like this?" The answer is simple—it is essential to his grift. It makes his followers feel the country is out of control, which in turn
(@TwitterSafety)

spurns them into actions like flying to Portland to terrorize and assault and/or flying to DC to "take their country back." (@TwitterSafety)

Ngo's misrepresentations—the type that would cost a legitimate, actual journalist their career—for the day had just begun. In the below Ngo claims a mob ran down a "young girl" and her father. This is a lie. In reality this man (@TwitterSafety)

is a far-right street brawler known as “Based Spartan” (John Turano) who travels the country assaulting people. His daughter Bianca is in her mid-20s. An article I wrote for VICE in 2017 featured Turano as its main image. (@TwitterSafety)
vice.com/en/article/pay…

As for Ngo claiming yet again that @PortlandPolice simply weren't there? That was another lie. Again, he does not support the police or @tedwheeler as they are by definition in opposition to the grift. They are his are pawns. (@TwitterSafety)

https://twitter.com/DonovanFarley/status/1162865387043614720?s=20

Also: note the source of the vid Ngo used for disinformation: @ElijahSchaffer. Schaffer recently spent weeks fomenting the assault on the Capital and in fact, helped lead the seditious insurrection as shown in this since-deleted post. (@TwitterSafety, @SpeakerPelosi)

Ngo was still not finished with disinfo on 8/17/19. When a bus full of violent out-of-town white nationalist Trump supporters drove towards a group of counter-protesters and swung a hammer out of the open door at them, Mr. Ngo lied and claimed the white (@TwitterSafety)

nationalists were victims. Note Ngo is once again collaborating with one of the leaders of the assault on the Capital, Elijah Schaffer. Sadly for Mr. Ngo and Mr. Schaffer, several actual journalists were on the ground able to disprove his lie again by clearly (@TwitterSafety)

showing where the hammer initially came from. The white nationalist had his hammer taken from him after trying to assault a counter-protester and then, to use journalistic parlance, got whooped with it. (@TwitterSafety)

Where indeed, Andy, where indeed. (@TwitterSafety)

https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1162888934898069504?s=20

Again, we actual journalists don't have a hard time bringing Ngo's many lies to light. Again, here we find Ngo lying to protect a white nationalist group who helped storm the Capitol. (@TwitterSafety)

https://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1163511727968923648?s=20

Even your run-of-the-mill skirmish that is so common at these events isn’t safe from Ngo’s propaganda. Again, sadly for him, actual journalists were on scene to report the actual facts.

https://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1163511727968923648?s=20

(@TwitterSafety)

Random bike accident the day of the dueling protests? Antifa did it, according to Mr. Ngo. This is, yet again, a lie. Anything to sow discord as discord is how he makes money. Sadly for Ngo, yet again, there were actual journalists on-scene reporting. (@TwitterSafety)

Again, this is all from one day. Again, any one of these choices would land an actual, professional journalist in a great deal of trouble All of them combined? You are not a journalist. Again, @Twitter is aiding, abetting and profiting these actions. (@TwitterSafety)