Three years ago, 51 people were murdered by a single gunman at 2 mosques in NZ. Ezra Levant, publisher of Rebel Media, which once employed the Proud Boys’ founder, “sued the author of this column 4 mentioning the terrorist’s donation 2 Rebel on Twitter…1/ theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
… after it appeared in the New Zealand report.” 2/
“None of these lawsuits have been successful. In 2021, three of them were thrown out by Ontario judges, who agreed with the defendants that the suits were simply attempts to silence the media…” 3/
“This January, a judge ruled that, in two suits, Mr. Levant and Rebel Media were ‘using litigation to silence critics’ and ordered the outlet to pay more than $250,000 in costs.” 4/
“In late 2021, Rebel Media dropped its suit against me, too, with an agreement not to pursue its defamation claim against me with respect to my tweets or their contents, and not to pursue any claims against me relating to them.” 5/
“In preparing my defence around the lawsuit, I found a string of articles and videos that were published on Rebel Media’s sites during those key months when the terrorist was gathering influences, shortly before he made his donation to the Canadian organization. “ 4/
“Most have been subsequently deleted from their sites, but can be found on internet archives.” 5/
“The concept of ‘white genocide,’ central to the terrorist’s manifesto, featured prominently on Rebel Media platforms during the time the young man was planning his terrorist attack.” 6/
“On May 31, 2017, Rebel published a much-discussed article, also later deleted, titled ‘White genocide in Canada’ which asked whether ‘diversity is just code for population replacement.’” 7/
Well darn. I used up my free views I’d the article, so I can’t thread the rest. But I recommend reading it. It’s by @DougSaunders. 8/
“Founder Of SPLC-designated Hate Group [the Proud Boys] Rejoins Rebel Media” 2/5/19
9/ canadaland.com/proud-boys-fou…
11/ This pretty much summarizes the far right. They are pro-censorship with an exception for their own hate speech & harassment of those with opposing views. Thread.
12/ Roger Stone protege Jack Posobiec has worked for Rebel Media too.
14/ PS. Saunders did make the point that he is not claiming that Rebel Media is responsible for the actions of the terrorist gunman, but rather that Rebel’s content (along w/ similar content by the Daily Stormer) may have influenced his worldview.
16/ Screenshot from Saunders’ article.

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