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You know someone is a nasty piece of work when SPLC Hatewatch has an entire section devoted to them.
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Dove Kent, the senior strategy officer for Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, said OANN’s hire of Posobiec puts Jewish people at risk:
In 2020 it must be said: no news network seeking any kind of credibility should employ someone who traffics in antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracy theories, with ties to white nationalist groups, like Jack Posobiec. Posobiec has a track record of harassing Jewish journalists, on multiple occasions employing antisemitic symbols used by white nationalists and neo-Nazis to call attention to a person’s Jewish identity, resulting in online targeting, threats of death, rape, and other violence against them and their families. Posobiec's hire at One America News Network reflects their willingness to mainstream and even embrace antisemitism, and demonstrates their utter negligence for the safety of the American Jewish community.
Jack Posobiec, a correspondent for One America News Network (OANN), brought a pseudonymous disinformation poster onto the air without providing context of that person’s hateful and terroristic beliefs, Hatewatch found.

Posobiec produced a segment for OANN in September 2018 in which he interviewed “Microchip,” who was at that time a pseudonymous contributor to the white-supremacist-friendly website Gab. Microchip achieved notoriety during Trump’s 2016 run for president for his involvement in a number of high-profile disinformation campaigns. Posobiec also linked his Twitter followers to Microchip’s Gab feed at least five times after the interview was aired, archives show. Microchip posted statements to Gab prior to being interviewed on OANN that celebrated Hitler, and alluded to terrorism and murder.

“I wish [Atomwaffen Division] had survived. They did great work in scaring the living shit out of everyone,” the person behind the Microchip Gab account wrote on July 24, 2018, across two posts. “We need more hatred and fear. Everyone needs to stop being such f------ p------.”

Atomwaffen Division is a terroristic neo-Nazi group responsible for at least five murders in the U.S. since 2017. On July 14, John Cameron Denton of Atomwaffen Division, who goes by the online moniker “Rape,” pled guilty to charges related to “swatting” journalists, which means calling police on false grounds to the homes of people in an effort to provoke accidental violence against them.

Hatewatch documented Microchip’s Gab posts extensively at the time Posobiec brought him onto the air, and they are virulently hateful. In addition to writing “Hitler 2.0 is coming and it is glorious,” he called black Congresswoman Maxine Waters a “Bush n----r ,” in response to President Trump saying she had a “low IQ.” In another Gab post, Microchip expressed hatred for LGBTQ people, Jews and people of color by employing a litany of slurs. Hatewatch has chosen not to reproduce the hatred and profanity in this post, but readers can view a screenshot of the full content. He also wrote on Gab that “racism and hatred is the future.” OANN noted to Hatewatch that their segment featuring Microchip is “active.” It can be found on their YouTube page. Posobiec, however, appears to have deleted a tweet promoting it to his followers.
From white supremacist websites to Posobiec’s Twitter followers

Posobiec’s promotion of Microchip’s Gab account is one of many instances Hatewatch found of the OANN correspondent boosting content from fringe websites that are heavily frequented by white supremacists to his substantial Twitter following.

On May 9, 2017, roughly one year before he started with OANN, Posobiec directed his followers to a link on 8chan’s “pol,” a forum that was at that time dominated by antisemitic, racist and terroristic users. Two months later, on July 4, 2017, Posobiec referenced 8chan again, announcing that the forum had published the personal information of CNN reporters. Far-right terrorists posted apparent manifestos to 8chan, making the forum globally infamous. Cloudflare, a hosting service, ultimately terminated the site after the El Paso Wal-Mart terror attack, in which one of its users was suspected of killing 23 people in a shooting spree.

In the Posobiec post alerting his followers to the publication of private information about CNN reporters, a Twitter user replied with the name and address of CNN employees such as Wolf Blitzer, Don Lemon and Brian Stelter. (Hatewatch is linking to a screen shot of Posobiec’s tweet rather than the archive of it to avoid republishing that private information.) Someone with the handle @DarkTriadMan wrote, “#DoxCNN” and “#CNNKarma” underneath Posobiec’s tweet. “8chan is so ruthless Google delisted them,” a Twitter user with the handle @SonofLiberty54 wrote in the replies to Posobiec’s tweet.

As recently as May 15, Posobiec promoted to his Twitter followers an article about antifa from an obscure website operated by “Eric Striker.” Eric Striker is the pseudonym of Joseph Jordan, a neo-Nazi from Queens, New York, who attended the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and once wrote hundreds of posts for the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. Jordan once wrote that Jews “need to be driven out of America.” Like Posobiec, Jordan promoted #Pizzagate. At the time Posobiec tweeted out the post linking to Jordan’s website, only a handful of other, much smaller Twitter accounts had done so, Hatewatch determined through a review of timestamps. Posobiec’s link to Jordan’s website was ultimately retweeted hundreds of times, causing the article to spread.

Posobiec responded to a request for comment on this series in April by claiming to have called the FBI on Hatewatch. In the first three stories in this series, Hatewatch detailed Posobiec’s connections to the white supremacist movement, his embrace of internet slang used by white supremacists to target Jews with harassment, and his connections to and promotion of Poland’s neo-fascist movement. He did not reply to a voice message Hatewatch left on July 8 offering him an additional opportunity to comment on the stories in this series.

Robert Herring, the CEO of OANN, portrayed Hatewatch’s effort to report on Posobiec’s ties to the white supremacist movement as “a guilt by association fallacy” and “a typical smear tactic” in April. Herring did not respond to a follow-up email Hatewatch sent on July 22 after the publication of the first three stories in this series.
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Posobiec contacted Richard Spencer after museum stunt

Richard Spencer, who did not respond to a request for comment from Hatewatch about Posobiec, published to Twitter in February 2019 screenshots of what he claimed were text messages Posobiec sent him. Hatewatch authenticated the messages through a third party who is in contact with Spencer but asked not to be named in this story. Hatewatch also matched timestamps of the messages Spencer published with the timing of events as they happened in order to further corroborate them. Posobiec sent the messages to Spencer in the two months after Posobiec first stepped out from behind his @AngryGotFan persona, timestamps show.

Posobiec contacted Spencer on Sept. 25, 2016, one day after he staged a racist, one-man, anti-Hillary Clinton demonstration outside of the opening ceremony for the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Outside of the first opening of that museum on Sept. 24, 2016, a then-unknown Posobiec appeared at the National Mall wearing a mask, blonde wig and an orange jumpsuit. He carried a sign that read “BLACKS ARE SUPERPREDATORS -H,” misquoting a statement made by Hillary Clinton. The event was memorialized by the far-right blog Gateway Pundit. Police detained Posobiec during his stunt, the blog noted.

Posobiec started a conversation with Spencer on Sept. 25, 2016 at 8:58 p.m., according to the screenshots. He shared three pictures of a black officer appearing to detain him and sit him down on a curb, the text messages show. Posobiec also sent Spencer the Gateway Pundit post.
Posobiec: It begins

Spencer: Very interesting.

Spencer: The crackdown might be too late and it’s counter-productive

Posobiec: Judicial Watch tells me they think 100% it’s bc I was a white protester and black cop. DC political demonstration laws are extremely lenient

Spencer: Doesn’t surprise me at all

Posobiec: Reminded me of the fatties in Covington’s novels

Spencer: Lol. I haven’t read a lot of Convington tbh
The “Covington” Posobiec referenced here is Harold Covington. Covington was a white supremacist who died in 2018. Toward the end of a long career in the white power movement, Covington started writing racist science fiction. Hatewatch found references to the “Fatties” Posobiec mentioned to Spencer in an internet archive of Covington’s book "Northwest Quintet." “Fatties” was used a derogatory term for a federal anti-terrorist law enforcement group in the book. In the same text Posobiec referenced, a protagonist detailed his plan for eliminating minorities on land he believes should belong only to white, heterosexual, non-Jews:
 …all non-whites and homosexuals [are] to leave the three basic Homeland states and anywhere else we’re operating. Henceforth all non-whites, especially Jews, are considered to be legitimate military targets and are to be destroyed on sight, in theory. In practice, your job will not be to run around slaughtering blacks and Mexicans en masse. Your task is to drive them out, if you see the difference. Dead or vamanos doesn’t matter, we want them gone.
Covington’s name popped up in the news in 2015 when he spoke admiringly of the white supremacist who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. It is worth noting that Posobiec selected a target for his protest that was important to the black community. Rep. John R. Lewis of Georgia and Rep. Mickey Leland of Texas first introduced legislation related to creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 1988 and it faced staunch political opposition. “It is real. It is real,” Lewis said at the groundbreaking of the museum’s construction in 2012, after fighting over a quarter of a century to see it built.
Posobiec promoted Richard Spencer event at the Willard Hotel

On Sept. 7, 2016, Posobiec posted on Twitter about his desire to attend an event hosted by white nationalist Richard Spencer to the over 10,000 followers he had accrued as a pseudonymous "Game of Thrones" fan. The Spencer event also featured speeches by VDARE’s Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor of the white nationalist group American Renaissance. It was initially scheduled to be held at the National Press Club. When the venue pulled out, Spencer held it at the Willard Hotel. Posobiec ultimately attended it there on Sept. 9, 2016.

“Excellent turn out at Alt Right press conference,” Posobiec wrote in one tweet alongside an image of Spencer speaking to what appears to be a modest crowd. “Peter Brimelow of @VDARE #AltRightConference,” Posobiec wrote in another tweet that featured a picture of Brimelow speaking to attendees of the event.

A New York magazine reporter embedded one of Posobiec’s tweets from that day in an article. Taylor of American Renaissance said in his speech that white and Asian people are genetically predisposed to be more intelligent than black and Hispanic people, the New York article noted.

“The media can’t get enough of @RichardBSpencer,” Posobiec tweeted on Sept. 9, 2016, alongside a picture of the white nationalist speaking to the media.
Posobiec made jokes mocking the Holocaust on a Periscope livestream

On March 31, 2017, Posobiec posted to Twitter a Periscope livestream in which he made jokes mocking the Holocaust. At the time, Posobiec was livestreaming a book launch for white nationalist author Scott Greer from the Washington, D.C., office of the conservative website The Daily Caller. The Daily Caller cut ties with Greer about a year and a half after the event attended by Posobiec, once The Atlantic reported he was writing for Richard Spencer’s publication Radix Journal under the pseudonym “Michael McGregor.” Right Wing Watch noted that in addition to Greer, other white nationalists, including writers for the white supremacist publication American Renaissance, also attended the event with Posobiec.

Posobiec’s livestream of the event, which he published to Twitter, stands out because of comments he made that mock the genocide of Jewish people during World War II. He referred in his video to “Kekistan,” a meme created by white nationalists on the imageboard site 4chan. The meme combined imagery surrounding the cartoon Pepe the Frog with explicit Nazi symbolism. Posobiec referred to himself as being “Kekistani,” which was typically used as a dog whistle to signal solidarity among white supremacists at that time, particularly ones that used the imageboard forum 4chan.

“I heard, someone heard… they turned Kekistanis into soap … [they’re] turning them into lampshades,” Posobiec said on the livestream.

It is common in white supremacist circles to reference Jews being turned into soap and lampshades. The rumor of Nazis turning Jews into soap is part of a war-borne myth that began during the Holocaust, according to scholars. White supremacists sometimes bring it up as a way of trivializing the genocide of the Jews during World War II.
Much more than Pizzagate

Pizzagate reached the height of public attention when a man brought firearms into the Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor and held up the staff and patrons in December, 2016, while he searched for evidence to support accusations from far-right conspiracy peddlers that the restaurant was a hub for child sex trafficking perpetrated by prominent Democrats. Posobiec promoted #Pizzagate on Twitter, but he also used the website for other disinformation campaigns in addition to it. One rather infamous example is the so-called Rape Melania spectacle, referring to First Lady Melania Trump.

Nov. 2016 retweet
@JackPosobiec retweeted a user who bought into in his apparent “Rape Melania” stunt on Nov. 14, 2016.
Buzzfeed reported in January 2017 that Posobiec planned and executed an effort to place a hand-printed sign that read “Rape Melania” in a crowd of anti-Trump protesters outside of the Trump hotel in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election. Twitter users posted video of the protest, amplifying the sign and helping to stir up the impression that a Trump protestor wrote it. The words “Rape Melania” trended on Twitter immediately following the event and Posobiec used the website to mock Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey.
Posobiec promoted Richard Spencer event at the Willard Hotel


On Sept. 7, 2016, Posobiec posted on Twitter about his desire to attend an event hosted by white nationalist Richard Spencer to the over 10,000 followers he had accrued as a pseudonymous "Game of Thrones" fan. The Spencer event also featured speeches by VDARE’s Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor of the white nationalist group American Renaissance. It was initially scheduled to be held at the National Press Club. When the venue pulled out, Spencer held it at the Willard Hotel. Posobiec ultimately attended it there on Sept. 9, 2016.

“Excellent turn out at Alt Right press conference,” Posobiec wrote in one tweet alongside an image of Spencer speaking to what appears to be a modest crowd. “Peter Brimelow of @VDARE #AltRightConference,” Posobiec wrote in another tweet that featured a picture of Brimelow speaking to attendees of the event.

A New York magazine reporter embedded one of Posobiec’s tweets from that day in an article. Taylor of American Renaissance said in his speech that white and Asian people are genetically predisposed to be more intelligent than black and Hispanic people, the New York article noted.

“The media can’t get enough of @RichardBSpencer,” Posobiec tweeted on Sept. 9, 2016, alongside a picture of the white nationalist speaking to the media.
Posobiec promoted 'the very symbol of fascism in Poland'

Posobiec used Twitter to amplify the neo-fascist Polish movement National-Radical Camp, or in Polish, Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny (ONR) on April 30, 2017. ONR “is antisemitic, full stop,” according to Polish sociologist Dr. Rafal Pankowski of the “Never Again” Association (in Polish, Nigdy Więcej). Pankowski also described ONR as being “the very symbol of fascism in Poland” in an interview with Hatewatch.

Georgetown University research published in 2017 backs up Pankowski’s depiction of the group. They note that ONR sought a “cleansing” of Polish Jews during Hitler’s rise in neighboring Germany. ONR’s members also perpetrated acts of violence against Jews in Poland including bombings of Jewish homes and shops, according to historians. Poland banned the group around this time, but they were reestablished decades later, according to Pankowski.

“Polish Nationalists March in Support of No Migrant Policy,” Posobiec wrote to his followers about ONR.

Posobiec’s description of ONR excluded important context. Pankowski noted to Hatewatch that the group marched the streets that day to celebrate their founding in 1934. A local newspaper report corroborates Pankowski’s assessment and notes that ONR chanted the slogan “Death to enemies of the homeland” at that march. Posobiec relayed none of these details to his followers.

Posobiec’s post about ONR was retweeted more than a thousand times, according to a screenshot captured by The Atlantic Council. As an example of how Posobiec’s post was interpreted, a Trump supporter replied to him on Twitter that day by writing: “Poland is always out in front. The west should use Poland as the example.”

The U.N. called on Poland to follow through on its initial ban of ONR in September 2019.
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Re: Cunt's new hero, Jack Posobiec

Post by Seabass » Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:32 pm

One America News Network (OANN) correspondent Jack Posobiec taped a segment with Canadian race science pundit Stefan Molyneux in Warsaw and the two men discussed white nationalism, according to a videographer who shared photos of the shoot with Hatewatch.

Posobiec, who also amplified and met with Polish neo-fascists, worked for OANN at the time the two men staged their discussion. Caolan Robertson, the videographer who provided the images, told Hatewatch the men convened in a room at a five-star hotel on the night of Nov. 11, 2018, following a march to celebrate Polish independence. Posobiec and Molyneux, as well as neo-Nazis, gathered in Warsaw that day to attend the event.

Robertson said that while Molyneux and Posobiec met at the hotel, “one guy with a massive pelican case covered in OANN branding set up the shot and filmed Jack [Posobiec] interviewing Stefan [Molyneux].” Robertson described the person carrying the OANN-branded case as “young” and “jittery,” saying he did not appear to want to be there. Hatewatch was unable to determine whether or not OANN ever ran the segment featuring Posobiec and Molyneux.

“Before shooting [the interview segment] they discussed how Stefan [Molyneux] had changed his mind and realized 'white nationalism' was actually an important factor to Poland's success,” Roberston recalled to Hatewatch. “Behind the scenes he and Jack would refer to this often. In this clip I found today while filming the summary, [Molyneux] even called his closing speech in the documentary (I shot for him) the 'white nationalism speech' to me, personally.”

Robertson said during the interview segment the men spoke about “polish identity, the importance of nationalism, the cleanliness and orderliness of Poland, [and] the success of Poland as a country due to its rejection of liberalism.” Robertson traveled to Poland with Molyneux at the time he met with Posobiec to help the Canadian man shoot a propaganda film in which he publicly endorsed white nationalism.

“I’ve always been skeptical of the ideas of white nationalism … However, I am an empiricist and I could not help but notice that I could have peaceful, free, easy, civilized and safe discussions in what is essentially an all-white country,” Molyneux said in the final product of the film Robertson helped him make.

Molyneux, whose accounts on YouTube and Twitter were suspended in recent weeks, gained notoriety for using social media to repeatedly promote his belief that women and non-white people are predisposed to be of lower intelligence than white men. Robertson’s account of Posobiec’s conversation with Molyneux adds credence to a claim made by Polish sociologist Dr. Rafal Pankowski of the “Never Again” Association (in Polish, Nigdy Więcej), who told Hatewatch the OANN correspondent “would have known” about the extreme far-right beliefs of many of the people who marched around him in Warsaw that day.

Evidence of the interview shared with Hatewatch by Robertson also further demonstrates Posobiec’s willingness to work with extremists and far-right propagandists. Posobiec brought the pseudonymous, Pro-Hitler disinformation poster Microchip onto OANN with him in September 2018. Posobiec also filmed two segments with the neo-Nazi Clark brothers for the Canadian far-right website The Rebel Media in 2017, based on photographs, video footage and first-person accounts.

Robertson, who reached out to Hatewatch through Twitter’s direct message service, said he did so after reading the first three parts of the investigative series on Posobiec, because he wanted to help make amends for the far-right propaganda he helped create.
Stefan Molyneux’s commentary about non-whites, women and Jewish people

Molyneux used YouTube and Twitter for years to proclaim that non-white people are predisposed to having a lower capacity for intelligence on average than white people. His commentary has been described as having a radicalizing effect by both the non-profit research foundation Data and Society as well as radicalized white nationalists.

“I was talking just today about low-IQ groups not being able to sustain a democracy,” Molyneux tweeted on Dec. 7, 2018 of New York Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, a month after his Warsaw meeting with Posobiec. “Puerto-Rican Americans score in the mid-80s in IQ. That’s a lot of her voting base.”

Molyneux made similarly racist claims about mixed-race people, Africans and Syrians, among others. He once blamed the 2007 housing crisis on “racial IQ differences.” Molyneux also won favor from white supremacists for his commentary about Jewish people and has more than once stated his belief that women are predisposed to be of lower intelligence than men.

“I hate to break it to you, but women are much less economically productive than men, because women are on average physically weaker, slightly less smart, and often disabled by childbirth,” he tweeted on Dec. 26, 2018, weeks after the trip to Warsaw at which he met with Posobiec.

Molyneux denied being a white supremacist in a video he published to the extremist-friendly video sharing website BitChute on July 19.
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Post by Seabass » Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:52 pm

Posobiec promoted neo-fascist Russian author during #MacronLeaks era

Around the time Posobiec carried out #MacronLeaks on Twitter, he also promoted a 1997 book by Aleksandr Dugin, a neo-fascist Russian author. Dugin had been reaching out to the U.S. for years in the leadup to the Trump era, and he found a following within the American white nationalist movement. In “Foundations of Geopolitics,” a Dugin book that is said to have an influence on the Russian military, he argued that Russia should promote sectarian racial tensions in the U.S. to foment chaos and cause American society to collapse.

“It is especially important to introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S.,” Dugin wrote in the book Posobiec promoted to his followers, as translated by John Dunlop of the Hoover Institution.

Posobiec tweeted about “Foundations of Geopolitics” seven times in just under one hour on April 23, 2017, according to archives. "Putin has all Russian officers read this book by Dugin – the Foundations of Geopolitics,” Posobiec wrote in one of the posts.

Hours after rattling off tweets about Dugin’s book, Posobiec promoted LePen’s candidacy in a YouTube video he shot for The Rebel Media. Not only was LePen a far-right, anti-immigrant politician, but she also had demonstrable ties to Russia at that time. LePen met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow one month before Posobiec recorded that segment with The Rebel Media. Her National Front party also sought a loan from Russia and later denied that it was given out as a reward for backing Putin’s agenda.

“They’re really seeing a new nationalism, this rebirth of patriotism for France that I really think is going to be interesting,” Posobiec said of the National Front in the April 24, 2017, YouTube video he recorded for The Rebel Media.

Posobiec promoted Dugin’s book again to his followers on June 13, 2017, when he published a picture of it and wrote, “Summer campaign reading.” He tagged his geolocation as CIA headquarters in that post.
One America News Network (OANN) correspondent Jack Posobiec tweeted 28 times over a span of ten months links to a website the U.S. government says is backed by Russian intelligence.

Posobiec repeatedly linked on Twitter to the obscure website “SouthFront,” which the U.S. Department of the Treasury named on April 15 in a statement explaining its enactment of sanctions on the Russian government, Hatewatch found. SouthFront, in turn, made posts promoting Posobiec. Southfront also cited Posobiec’s tweets in their posts, as they did in February when announcing that Senate Republicans acquitted President Trump on charges related to his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Posobiec has used Twitter to promote Russian intelligence-backed propaganda before, as when he served as a central figure in spreading a hack of Emmanuel Macron’s emails in May 2017, as Hatewatch has previously reported.

The Department of the Treasury put in place those sanctions in response to attempts to “influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election at the direction of the leadership of the Russian Government,” the statement noted. The government described the website Posobiec shared dozens of times as being operated by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in an attempt to appeal to Western audiences:
SouthFront is an online disinformation site registered in Russia that receives taskings from the FSB. It attempts to appeal to military enthusiasts, veterans, and conspiracy theorists, all while going to great lengths to hide its connections to Russian intelligence. In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, SouthFront sought to promote perceptions of voter fraud by publishing content alleging that such activity took place during the 2020 U.S. presidential election cycle.
Posobiec shared to Twitter the 28 links to SouthFront from November 2019 to August 2020, all while working for the low-standard news network OANN, Hatewatch found. The OANN correspondent shared SouthFront links related to such subjects as Iran, Syria, Libya and China. (The web traffic analysis company Alexa suggests that SouthFront.org pulls most of its traffic from posts about Syria and its surrounding region.) Posobiec also shared SouthFront links focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and at least one post on the site that mocked concerns about Russian disinformation. Posobiec frequently deletes posts with disinformation or hateful language from Twitter after they have gone viral, as he did in 2017 after promoting on that site a neo-fascist Polish political movement that in the 1930s bombed Jewish homes.

Twitter “verified” Posobiec’s account in April 2017. Verification on Twitter gives media figures and celebrities a blue check next to their names on the site, which critics say awards far-right extremists like Posobiec an air of authority they would not otherwise be able to obtain. Hatewatch found only scattered examples of “verified” Twitter users promoting SouthFront outside of Posobiec. Posobiec, who has over 1 million Twitter followers, also appeared to produce some of the most engagement SouthFront has received on the site, based upon a review of tweets linking to their content. Twitter now issues a warning when users click on SouthFront-related content linked on their site, describing the material as being potentially “unsafe.”

Hatewatch reached out to Posobiec for a comment about his interest in SouthFront, but he did not reply. Hatewatch also reached out to Twitter for a comment about Posobiec using their site to push Russian intelligence-backed hacking efforts and disinformation. Twitter did not reply. Hatewatch also reached out to OANN for a comment about Posobiec’s interest in SouthFront. OANN, which critics have described as promoting Russian propaganda, did not respond. SouthFront replied to the government’s depiction of their website with mockery.

“No day without shaping the history! Big Bad SouthFront is once again threatening interests of the leadership of the world’s sole superpower,” SouthFront wrote in a post published April 15.
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Re: Cunt's new hero, Jack Posobiec

Post by Seabass » Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:54 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:
Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:47 pm
What's the tl;dr version?
Cunt's not just a Troll.
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