Thread by @bradheath

Confirming @Reuters' reporting on the damage The Gateway Pundit caused, the site re-upped false claims that two GA workers had rigging the 2020 election. They've been in hiding over numerous threats.

"The Gateway Pundit NEVER condones threats or violence but ..."

The election-rigging claims against the two GA election workers are false. The Gateway Pundit has aired them repeatedly anyway, prompting death threats. Even now, a year later, people are still repeating these false claims online.

reuters.com/investigates/s…

Gateway Pundit pushed many other false claims. It alleged that a Wis. clerk had created fake ballots. (She hadn't.) Its bogus claims prompted one reader to recommend a specific bullet for killing her – a 7.62 millimeter round for an AK-47 assault rifle.
reuters.com/investigates/s…

The Gateway Pundit isn't one fringe website. The stuff it chooses to post trickles into the rest of right-wing media. Here, for example, is a 2021 memo from One America News suggesting producers check the site as it's "very helpful to find good OAN content."

And, not for nothing, Gateway Pundit's claim quoted at the top of this 🧵 that the FBI never investigated video of the election Georgia workers is false.

The U.S. attorney testified that both he and the FBI investigated and found "there was no substance to the allegations."