Journos from Prominent News Publications Found to Have Working Relationships With Antifa

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.

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

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). pic.twitter.com/IveYa9hZ1W

— Dr. Eoin Lenihan (@EoinLenihan) May 15, 2019

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.

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— Dr. Eoin Lenihan (@EoinLenihan) May 15, 2019

These journalists highlighted in green are verified accounts on Twitter. Some of these names weren’t even small-fry as Lenihan points out. His first tweet focuses on a writer for The Guardian.

Jason Wilson writes for the Guardian. In a recent piece in which he reports on an intelligence report by the ROCIC which states that Antifa are responsible for street violence just as the far right are, he heavily relies on Mark Bray as a primary source to attack the report. pic.twitter.com/yWe6dxoT1X

— Dr. Eoin Lenihan (@EoinLenihan) May 15, 2019

Another journalist is an investigator for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Michael Edison Hayden.

In the case of Identity Europa, many are despicable people and they have been labeled an extremist group by the @splcenter but again, among out top 2% is chief investigative reporter for the SPLC Matthew Hayden who’s connections within Antifa are problematic. pic.twitter.com/sO0tjqcu8Y

— Dr. Eoin Lenihan (@EoinLenihan) May 15, 2019

We also find a senior writer at the Huffington Post known for spreading doxes of alleged members of the far right before it’s even known if they actually are members or not. This has led to the doxing of an innocent man.

Christopher Mathias is a senior writer at @HuffPost who specialises in the Far Right. In a recent piece he wrote about members of Identity Europa he spread the doxes of several alleged members serving in the military. pic.twitter.com/s5LY4Dxucd

— Dr. Eoin Lenihan (@EoinLenihan) May 15, 2019

Here he uses HuffPo to out a “Prominent white supremacist” & was instrumental (along with his Antifa network) in getting him investigated. It later turned out the man was cleared of any wrong doing & allowed back to work. Like the Europa case Mathias doxes first, facts later. pic.twitter.com/omDrJARr1p

— Dr. Eoin Lenihan (@EoinLenihan) May 15, 2019

In fact, HuffPo’s Mathias seems to be the most connected journalist to Antifa according to Lenihan.

Mathias is the most connected journalist in the entire dataset. He has an incredible 14 degree range of connections within the dataset. That means he is in the top 0.15% of Antifa and Antifa associated accounts. pic.twitter.com/Go2Zjks9r9

— Dr. Eoin Lenihan (@EoinLenihan) May 17, 2019

The Huffington Post’s relationship with doxers seems to be close. Lenihan claims that he was in contact with doxers who, at one point, had working relationships a HuffPo reporter. They were apparently paid to find out personal information of suspected members of the alt-right, which was then handed over to HuffPo. One doxer admitted that they handed over some information about an individual they knew wasn’t a Nazi at all.

Here the doxer who claimed he has an @HuffPost journalist on call admits that the individual they are doxing is not a white supremacist or fascist but they’ll give it to the HuffPo writer because it have been incentivised. pic.twitter.com/5dC4Ogmjis

— Dr. Eoin Lenihan (@EoinLenihan) May 15, 2019

So not only are some of the journalists who are writing hit pieces and spreading radical leftist ideas from prominent publications attached to an official domestic terrorist group, at least one journalist is paying to have information gathered about various people and using it to attack them. Furthermore, it doesn’t matter if these people are confirmed as alt-right figures or not, the attacks happen anyway.

This is stunning information, yet not surprising.

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