“A HuffPost investigation in 2017 revealed that @TEN_GOP, a pro-Trump Twitter account run by the Kremlin’s Internet Research Agency, retweeted Posobiec more than any account in a large data set of significant conservative accounts.” 1/ huffpost.com/entry/the-vast…
“More than Hannity. More than Trump. Even more than Cernovich, with whom Posobiec helped orchestrate Pizzagate.” 2/
“Posobiec put his large Twitter platform to use during a Russian attack on the 2017 French presidential election meant to damage centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and aid nationalist Marine Le Pen.” 3/
“Posobiec was the first real amplifier of forged documents about Macron, according to an investigation by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. He then promoted a cache of Russia-hacked Macron campaign emails.” 4/
“This month, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted six Russian government hackers on criminal charges related to the attack.” 5/
“On Twitter, Posobiec has repeatedly promoted ‘Foundations of Geopolitics,’ a book by the Russian neofascist Aleksandr Dugin that explains how to undermine American democracy by inflaming racial tension and chaos through political sabotage and disinformation.” 6/
“Dugin’s book is reportedly assigned as a textbook in the Russian military academy. Since the Macron attack, @Twitter has allowed Posobiec to increase his follower count by at least 1 million, giving him an immense platform from which to spread disinformation.” 7/
This is a fascinating piece by @lukeobrien. Much more than I put in the thread. 8/
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10/ “Infamous Pizzagater Jack Posobiec Pushed Hoax About Pipe Bombs Being Planted at Korean War Memorial” by @willsommer, 6/3/20 thedailybeast.com/infamous-pizza…
12/ “Hard-right disinformation peddlers such as Jack Posobiec, Mike Cernovich and Cassandra Fairbanks, who hyped #Pizzagate on @Twitter, also later used the site to push lies about the 2020 election…” by @splcenter splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
13/ “Twitter has enabled these figures for years and even recommended to readers Posobiec’s misleading content about the trial of Derek Chauvin, despite the sensitivity around the trial and his connections to the white supremacist movement.”
14/ Wow.
15/ I did not know that it was Twitter that facilitated #Pizzagate and that the bad actors behind it still get to have massive Twitter accounts. What a depressing & helpless feeling.
16/ “Jack Posobiec and Laura Loomer Fight for Credit Over Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theory,” 6/27/18 thedailybeast.com/jack-posobiec-…
18/ “Mediaite reported after a gunman opened fire on Comet Ping Pong to check out the conspiracy theory in December, Posobiec tweeted out a false quote from D.C.’s police chief claiming that #Pizzagate had nothing to do with the attempted shooting.” salon.com/2017/08/16/mee…
19/ Per Buzzfeed, a “‘Rape Melania’ sign…at an anti-Trump rally was ‘the culmination of a disinformation campaign by Posobiec & others intended to paint the anti-Trump rallies as violent…,” & per a source, “it is Posobiec…holding the ‘Rape Melania’ sign in the photographs.” 😡
20/ “Jack Posobiec’s Rise Tied to White Supremacist Movement” by @splcenter, 7/8/20 splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
21/ “Posobiec, 34, described himself in his Twitter bio as being “fmr CBS News” during chapters of his life detailed in this story. CBS News told Hatewatch he never worked for them.”
22/ “At the time Posobiec introduced himself to the public on Twitter as ‘fmr CBS News,’ he promoted now-infamous disinformation campaigns such as ‘Pizzagate.’ He built up a larger audience during this time, gaining over 9k followers per month from September 2016 to March 2017.”
23/ Whoa.
24/ Holy sh#t. The use of triple parentheses is used to target Jews.
https://archive.is/2017.12.22-053801/https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/758413748474437636
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32/ BTW, the fake #Pizzagate pedophile story spread by Jack Posobiec led to someone firing an assault rifle into an innocent man’s pizza parlor. The gunman faced consequences. But why hasn’t Posobiec? Why does @jack let him have an @Twitter account? nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/…
33/ Perhaps worst of all, Posobiec has recently joined TPUSA, which seeks to indoctrinate kids into their right-wing “ideology.”
Link to thread: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1439644…
Link to thread: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1439644…
35/ Internet archives also reportedly show Posobiec’s use of variations of “14 88” in tweets as an apparent dog whistle to anti-semites. h/t @splcenter splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
37/ I had never heard of the 14 88 dog whistle. Until today. Why hasn’t @TwitterSafety banned Posobiec? 🥵 adl.org/education/refe…
38/ This is crucial reading about Jack Posobiec & @TwitterSafety’s complicity. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
39/ More crucial reading about Posobiec from @splcenter. The article links to this tweet in the internet archive. Again, triple parentheses are used to target Jews.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
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