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Feb 17 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
In part 4, an Infowars employee warns Alex Jones about Nick Fuentes.

Specifically, they warn that Fuentes’ associate “Millennial Matt” Colligan confessed to being an FBI informant.

Me & @MeganSquire0 again:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
For those unaware, Matt Colligan aka “Millennial Matt” showed up at Charlottesville as part of a cluster of racist, Pro-Trump influencers, like Baked Alaska.

By 2020, he allegedly confessed to becoming an FBI informant tasked with monitoring Nick Fuentes:
masslive.com/news/boston/20…
Alleged informant Millennial Matt has mostly limited his online presence recently. We learned that he turned up in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. That's the same place where cops arrested all the Patriot Front members who tried to disrupt Pride in June 2022.

Assist from @danielwinlander:
As for Alex Jones, he wound up broadcasting Fuentes and Kanye West's praise of Adolf Hitler.

He can act surprised by that but he either knew what he was getting into or chose not to listen.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
I did my best to define what a cat boy is in this story. I sincerely hope that all good natured, non-racist cat boys feel well represented by this definition.

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
Wrote about a time in 2017 when I lost my shit in the Newsweek offices while talking with Matt Colligan and started yelling over the phone. (Not my best moment as a reporter.)

Free, under the title "Cat Boy Summer." (h/t @EyesOnTheRight for that one.)

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Feb 7
In Part 3 of our Alex Jones series, we go inside his longstanding friendship with Joe Rogan and how he tried to help accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate get a guest spot on Joe Rogan Experience.

Once again by me & @MeganSquire0 splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
Once again, misogyny plays a big role in the series.

Joe Rogan called Andrew Tate "a very smart guy" in January -- after more details about his alleged crimes became public. I texted him to ask what was so smart about Tate but didn't hear back: splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023… Image
This is one of my favorite texts in the whole cache.

Rogan to Jones: "I didn’t say anything bad about you, in fact I gave you credit for being right about a lot of shit including these Chinese monkey pig hybrids."

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023… Image
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Feb 1
In part 1 of our Alex Jones series, we reveal who he really is behind his Infowars performance.

CW: Descriptions of sex and suggestions of domestic violence.

Me and @MeganSquire0:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
Here's the landing page where we will be adding future stories. Rachel Janik is the editor. She is a dear friend, a fellow steward with @SPLCUnion, and provided so much depth to the male supremacy coverage in this series.

(She's not on Twitter. )
splcenter.org/alex-jones-tex…
Here is the intro or "Part Zero," which explains how we came to write the series and lays out important research from @MeganSquire0 about Jones's texts on the whole.

Soon enough, any reporter will be able to access them:
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023…
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Jan 24
Elon Musk restored the verified account of white nationalist and antisemite Nick Fuentes.

No other mainstream website allows this guy to have an account.
After YouTube pulled the plug on Nick, he told his audience that he retained 80% of his audience through Twitter referrals. Then Twitter suspended him too. Musk restoring his account will drive significant traffic to Fuentes’ hate site:

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
If you want an idea of what the Twitter Blue service is doing as it relates to the "For You" section, Unite the Right organizer and white supremacist Jason Kessler pulled in nearly 800,000 views on one recent Tweet. This guy is a rummy. Barely any audience.

That's all Elon Musk.
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Dec 17, 2022
I don’t know, man. Jack Posobiec looks exactly as I remember him. Stressed out.

Love that these guys are still crying about this one week later.

Take the L and move on. Image
I kept the questions to things related to Jack Posobiec's radical right activism.

If I really wanted to run up the score on him I would have asked:

Why did you claim to go to Wharton in your book when you never did?

Why did you pretend to work for CBS News?

I'm too nice.
Jack and down-and-out grifter Raheem Kassam whining about @hannahgais and me

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Dec 16, 2022
If you missed my appearance on @allinwithchris, I broke down the current state of the Republican Party as reflected by the NYYRC event.

References here to @hannahgais and Korn.
Here we talk about @Santos4Congress and his willingness to appear next to bigoted, ultranationalist groups like AfD and FPÖ.

Queens/Long Island people pay attention to this guy:
I'm not paying for Elon's longer video package. For anyone who wants to watch until the end, here's part 3 of the segment with part 4 below it:
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Dec 16, 2022
I recommend that reporters block Elon Musk. If you need to read his tweets for work, do it another way.

Dude never logs off and he’s less likely to get mad online and suspend you if you’re not in his face.

I’m a big fan of blocking in general.
Block Andy Ngo. Block Ian Miles Cheong. Just block these clowns. As my five-year-old son would say, they are dumb.

If you need to figure out how to monitor these and other accounts in real time without violating ToS manipulation policy, I can advise over signal.
Correct. Thanks for plugging this for me.

Again, if you need help circumventing Twitter's platform manipulation policy to monitor smooth brained bootlickers like Andy Ngo while also blocking them, please let me know. Image
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