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Study Finds Many Journalists Have ‘Working Relationships With Antifa’

21-5-2019 < SGT Report 25 796 words
 

by Chris Menahan, Information Liberation:


“After mapping the social interactions of 58,254 Antifa accounts on the social network Twitter, Dr Eoin Lenihan found that many journalists from major publications such as The Guardian, Vox, and more had a direct working relationship with the Antifa members,” RedState reports.



Lenihan posted his findings to Twitter where he put up a chart showing Antifa area accounts with their related members.


He then shortened that dataset to only 1.65 percent of the total, leaving them with the accounts that are the most connected to the various official Antifa accounts with a minimum of eight connections or more. According to Lenihan, some had far more than just eight.





As the data came out, Lenihan found more than a few journalists with a multitude of connections to Antifa.



Perhaps the most salacious accusation is that Lenihan said he “spoke to two defectors from a doxing collective who said a HuffPo writer offered cash for doxes.”


Here’s Lenihan’s full Twitter thread as unrolled for greater readability by the Thread Reader App:




Going to do a long thread on the relationship between verified twitter accounts – focus on journalists – and Antifa. Warning, could be long.






We mapped the social interactions of 58,254 Antifa affiliated accounts on Twitter based on an initial seed of 16 self-identifying and verifiable Antifa accounts (and Mark Bray who chose not to confirm if he is a member of Antifa but whose book makes a solid case for inclusion).





We reduced the dataset to 1.65% of all 58,254 accounts – leaving us with 962 accounts. These were the 1.65% most connected Antifa and Antifa associated accounts on Twitter. Each had a minimum of 8 connections within the initial dataset, most having many more.






Here I just want to focus on those Twitter verified accounts that made it into this dataset of the most connected Antifa and Antifa associated accounts on Twitter. Here you can see them highlighted in green.










At 8 connections and above within the dataset the typical verified account is an openly self-identifying antifascist and an influential member of the Antifa movement on Twitter. For example….






Kit O’Connell, who points out his antfascist affiliation in his bio.





Patrick Strickland who specialises in reporting on the far right and writes (positively) on Antifa in Europe. Note the recommendation from Mark Bray, more on him in a moment.





Dylan Petrohilos an anarchist and self-identifying antifascist.





Dan Arel who self identifies as Anarchist Antifa in his bio…





Emily Gorcenski uses Twitter to dox those she deems fascist. Further she created the “First Vigil” website that processes court documents to share the personal information of suspected members of the far right. In cases where people are found innocent (50%), info is still shared.





The point here being that those verified accounts that remain in the dataset at a degree range of 8+ are highly connected and in most cases closely associated with or self-identifying members of Antifa. So…on to the apparent ties between @HuffPost and @guardian to Antifa.



I would highly recommend checking out the Twitter feeds of many of the “journalists” mentioned in this report.


Most do nothing beyond dox people and lobby Corporate America to have them deplatformed.


Read More @ InformationLiberation.com





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