Our press really noticed Posobiec for the first time days after Unite the Right when Trump retweeted his effort to divert attention to Chicago violence.
Russia Insider founder Charles Bausman involved himself in Pennsylvania-based Stop the Steal activism and then took his act to Washington D.C. on Jan 6.
Then he disappeared, leaving the Christmas lights still hanging from his home.
.@Twitter gave far-right extremists the platform they needed to plan an attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, and the website will enable politically motivated violence again in the future if it isn't reformed.
This was a hard one to put together because of the size. There is more to report from here.
Among other things, @Twitter verified and promoted the extremists who abused their platform to hype Pizzagate.
The fifth anniversary is looming and so I also spoke to James Alefantis of Comet Ping Pong about how they marketed them at his expense: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
They dispatched goons to DC last summer during the George Floyd protests. The goons pretended to be VICE Canada reporters and told demonstrators to ID themselves on their stream.
NEW: The U.S. named an obscure website called "SouthFront" as being the product of Russian military intelligence.
Jack Posobiec linked to it 28 times in 10 months during the runup to the election, serving as a central source of its spread to Americans: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
You would be forgiven for sensing a pattern here. Jack Posobiec has been involved now in multiple schemes linked to Russian military intelligence operations:
Let's start with the extremist front and ignore Russia for a minute. The most prominent extremists to involve themselves in this stunt other than Posobiec: a Daily Stormer neo-Nazi and a Holocaust denier.