Twitter's Incoherent Case of Benjamin Brody
Documenting another online flaming bag-of-poop singeing real life.
(a slightly slicker & updated version has been posted on Medium)
Last weekend a scuffle broke out between two far-right groups protesting a Portland suburb's first ever Pride Night.
It appeared that a well known “shirt” group, the Proud Boys, got into it with a lesser known local hate group wearing gaiters calling themselves the “Rose City Nationalist Club”.
In the melee, two of the RCNC gaggle had their masks removed. As it is nowadays, others nearby had their cell-phone camera apps up & running. Within a few post-fracas breaths, more than a few versions of footage of the slap-fight were quickly uploaded to social media.
As a testament to how the Tesla CEO's recent purchase is quickly becoming the new chan site, one video briefly showed two maskless neo-fascist pugilists' faces, was uploaded and swiftly spread around by accounts by twitter accounts big, small, and mostly with little \$8 blue-checks in them.
It seems the video had been first shared by the now-suspended @OMGLikeReally account. It took little time for more heavily-followed rather-right-leaning twitter accounts to alley-oop the short flick into their like-minded fans' feeds. As it goes on the Busted Bird app with viral tweets from these kinds of accounts, the site's owner commented:
And so by the troll law of online-nature, the video was boosted like a phallic rocket ship powered by millions of views and the replies swelled with conjecture of “paid crisis actors”, “antifa”, or worse.
As we saw on January 6th and in Allen, Texas and in Buffalo, NY and so many other times when far-right individuals (who share and even act on the shared rhetoric of a slightly less far-right) get caught doing something horrible or embarrassing, they are quickly thrown under the proverbial bus. Exciting podcasters and “citizen journalists” to sprint to their mics and social media to share their excessive outrage. Labeling the miscreants a “false-flag”, “ANTIFA”, “BLM”, or “Trans” and squeezing synthetic indignation out of how preposterous it is to think that conservatives like themselves would ever do something like that. And pedal-to-the-metal it until that rage-fueled bus is running on “Empty”.
From small-time MAGA grifters like FemalesForTrump and AMERiKANgriLLL and RickTheTank to bigger names like Glenn “I haven't found an authoritarian I didn't like” Greenwald and Tim “I'll never wash this beanie” Pool, they bused it out to the masses.
But instead of reckoning with the fact that these are the kind of groups that show up to protest a LGBTQ event, something neo-nazi-attracting moral-panic-pumping accounts like LibsOfTikTac, GaysAgainstGroomers (who organized the protest), and a myriad of culture warrior accounts would advocate for, organize, and actively cheer on, the accounts shared their anger about having seen a “fed” (or in some cases an “antifa”) false flag and the pixelated faces of two unmasked men undeniably proved it.
Under a tweet from Benny Johnson (1.6M followers) sharing the video and “viewed” 32 million times, a blue-checker account kicked it off with a “Here's two who were unmasked. Do your thing, sleuths.”
The twitter fanboys were giddy because they believed that they had finally found two real-live “feds” in the wild.
Or in rare cases, excited that there was finally proof that the Proud Boys weren't connected directly with neo-nazis (spoiler: they are) because it sort of looked like they were sort of kicking some nazis' butts.
So they got to sleuthing. Sort of.
The masked Proud/PF/RCNC Boy
Some infinitely more familiar with the local fash-scene easily identified one of the masked men as RCNC's founder/leader Casey Knuteson, a former Proud Boy of the same group who had left for the Whiter-Powerier pastures of Patriot Front. (Patriot Front is believed to be “feds” by these same context-adverse twitterers).
Several had been exposing “Canute the Great's” travels and his most recent spin-off group, the “Rose City Nationalist Club” for while.
While online “sleuths” thought they had a case, unsurprising to most everyone else, Knuteson was plainly one of them and the brouhaha was simply internal beef over who was more fash-y and less cuck-y. As the local PBs explained on their “memes by angry white guys” telegram channel:
The Patriot Front leaks published by Unicorn Riot published show Casey had been a kind of go-between the local PBs and PF.
And as it has so often been with the Traditional Values “We're Fighting To Keep Kids Safe” crowd, Knuteson was also apparently found guilty of physically abusing his own child and 9 years later still doesn't have custody. (again, we must note that in those 9 years, he's been a member of Proud Boys and two White Nationalist groups; a common thread that maybe we should get into in future writings.)
There is heaps more context we could get into, but that's enough for this shit-show and surely others can do a better job breaking it down than us. We are not journalists. Nor do we live in #Portland. We just do OSINT-related stuff to expose & debunk bad things that people being bad do to people that don't deserve it. That's why we are here: to help Benjamin out.
The second masked boy in a fuzzy screenshot
Although local activists recognize him from other RCNC actions, as of today (30th of June, 2023) the skinnier second unmasked man from the video has yet to be identified by anyone the author has heard from.
Or at least he hasn't been identified in the reality that we reside in.
Some top-notch keyboard “sleuth” had stumbled on a twitter profile that maybe possibly perhaps looked like it could fit the supposed “fed” stereotype in the story that the riled up crowd had spun.
Their man had been found and no further investigating or confirmation was necessary. They announced the search done and the reply-guys retweeted it up and down the app with two taps on their tiny screens.
All sorts of similarly much-followed $8/month-clout accounts, like russia-buddy inside-trader Tyler Durden Daniel_Ivandjiiski @zerohedge (1.6M) to smaller ones like Alex Sheppard (72K) and even smaller fake doctor rage-farmers who have to rely on AI to make their pfp and their friends look decent, “Dr. Frensor” (13.5K), jumped in to spread it faster than a Tesla-battery fire.
They had settled on the offender being a young Jewish man named Benjamin Brody, who had just graduated days earlier from UC Riverside and was trying to enjoy the beginning of his summer with friends and family.
From the outside, it is utterly confusing as to why one would assume Benjamin would be a wily FBI agent so far from home.
Apparently if someone viewing the grainy images on their phone or an outdated monitor squinted juuusssttt right, he slightly looked like the skinny kid in the pixelated video screenshot. And an older Instagram post from his fraternity mentioned his desire to work for the government and was on his way to a “polysci” degree. And as everyone knows, if you want to work for any governmental agency, you must first do untrained undercover work for the federal bureau of investigations. Totally.
Last Sunday (6/25) Benjamin Brody woke up to harassment from terminally online weirdos who think that the FBI, antifa, trans-people, immigrants, Jews, reptilians, and/or some combination of all or none of the above are behind everything that makes their crazy-ilk look as crazy as they do.
Egged on by accounts with millions of followers & an edge-lord billionaire who is open about his fondness for tin-foil hat-shaped logic.
The trolls from twitter tried their darnedest to reenact the odious doxxing and skewering we've been accustomed to seeing oozing out of 4chan, 8kun, and kiwifarms. Noteworthy stochastic menaces came from even less fun corners of the social platform, from #Musk-fluffer Matt Wallace (1.1M followers) to Ian “confused about Orwell” Malcolm 1984 (4K) to QAnon-conspiracist ReturnOfKappy (87K).
And naturally, the multitudes of lower-ranked angry-mob comments and replies were outlandishly gross as well.
With haste, they smeared the news around the social medias and began harassing him & his family through his social media accounts. The author is unaware what Benjamin dealt with in person, but it was evident what was happening online.
Much of it packed a noticeable antisemitic edge to it. Some notable mentions are tweets and replies from JD Sharp (36.8K) and @Chaos_Memer giving a wink & a nod to the worn out “the Jews are behind everything” tropes that have been given renewed juice from the recent rise of the alt-Right and QAnon movements.
The “we found the fed” panic spilled into other expected edgy realms. On GETTR, #ProudBoy founder Gavin “choke a tranny” McInnes shared screenshots with the familiarly regurgitated childish commentary...
And the image boards of 4chan, where this stuff normally starts out, shouldn't be left out...
The author has not spoken with Mr. Brody, but it's pretty safe to assume that the young man is occupied living his post-graduation life. His rather compact online footprint makes it glaringly obvious that he is an average middle class kid who posts selfies and group photos with buddies and is too busy to do much interaction with much else online.
To the chronically-online, that in and of itself may be “suspect”. But for those of us who aren't stuck in their phones, grinding our teeth anxiously awaiting our next dopamine hit from online interactions, this is actually quite common, if not the norm.
While those wackos aren't likely to be convinced by anything that sounds like logic, the rest of us should consider Benjamin's case and how these insane conspiracy theories being throw at him fall apart...
Olympic leaps in logic failing to even qualify
In a sane world, Benjamin Brody is entirely none of our business. His mostly anonymous life has suddenly been subjected to scrutiny by the modern equivalent of a lynch mob propagated by millionaires, billionaires, and well-off grifters who get clout and make loot from the amount of rage that they can build up in their enthralled fandom. This is a young man who has been thrust into a clown-shaped storm of ire overnight while literally having absolutely nothing to do with an event 1,000 miles from where he resides. The iota of specious “evidence” they've scraped together takes incredibly insane stretches to connect at best. Yet amazingly there is an ugly mass of internet gremlins who are obsessed with them being true. Let's quickly run through them and examine how they hold up.
According to wackos like Matt Wallace's reply-guys, Benjamin is a “federal agent.” Demonstrating an extreme taffy-like logic, they point to his social media accounts that he and his fraternity limited or shut down soon after the deluge of harassment. Especially where it mentions that he was planning to get a Political Science degree and hoped to “work for the government.”
It is a leap in logic that a PoliSci degree means that one is destined to immediately work in law enforcement or federal investigations or, in this case, even do undercover work 48 hours after graduating from a school on the other side of the country from where the FBI trains new recruits.
The conspicuous problem with this is that Benjamin earned himself a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology. There are around 23.7 million Americans working for federal, state, and local governments. And “the federal government is arguably the largest employer of anthropologists outside of academia.” Governments use anthropologists to plan, research, and manage projects.
No offense Ben, but it's mostly pencil-pusher stuff. Anthropology is just not “undercover in extremist hate groups to make them look bad” exciting stuff. And as stated above there are millions upon millions of “government jobs” from social service to meteorologist to political aide to dog-catcher. So it's one super weak Charlie Kelly-esque stringed out connection to make.
Benjamin received his degree on the evening of Wednesday at a graduation ceremony at UC Riverside. Degrees take stress and time to get through. Fitting in training with the FBI would take a huge chunk of time away from said education. Part-time jobs while in school is enough. FBI training would take a clone.
Despite what very smooth-brained nutters may think, one cannot simply be an on-the-ground FBI agent 2 days after graduating either. It takes at least 20 weeks of intensive training in Quantico, VA before moving on to other specific areas of expertise. 21 Jump Street was a fictitious TV show. This is not how real life works.
Even more outlandish, the unmasked goof has been a regular at RCNC hootenannies for a while.
So that would mean a heck of a lot of trips from Southern California to a boring corner of Oregon just to build up an undercover presence to make some white power group (that few had heard of until less than a week ago) look bad.
And he would have had to have driven or hopped on a plane within 48 hours after graduating just to get in the middle of a scuffle between two far-right groups so if someone filmed it, he could mess with their optics in a small PNW suburban town. Huh?!?
If the feds knew someone would be shooting for internet content, then in brain-worm world there is a damn good chance that whoever filmed the OMGLikeReally video is also a “fed”!!! No wonder that Pokemon-pfp-ed account got suspended!
The more we ponder it the more insane the Olympic-level stretching gets. But that is standard conspiracy theory thinkin' for ya.
Speaking of magnificent feats in logic & obsession:
Internet-famous Amiri “have I told you how I used to be in prison” King used one of the blue-check features he paid good money for to babble (as bad as this article does) on about Mr. Brody, regurgitating the same brain-worms Gavin did on GETTR:
“So its making the rounds on social media that one of the de-masked Patriot Front members is allegedly a Ben Brody, who is a member of a Jewish fraternity.
“If someone accused me of being somewhere I wasn’t, I would immediately take to social media (or hold a presser) to provide evidence that I was NOT.
“With ease.
“It’s 2023. There are fucking cameras everywhere.”
But, without seeing any of these internet philosophers' certifications, Mr. Brody had already done just that with a video on his Instagram account explaining that he didn't know or care to know about what had been going on in wacky online spaces because it sounded absolutely preposterous at best. He just requested that he and his family be left alone.
Soon after he followed up with screenshots of “receipts” from the day around Riverside, CA. Someone else even posted footage from one of those “fucking cameras everywhere” of him picking up food at a restaurant in Riverside.
Yet none of that mattered to the chan-infected #twitter accounts. Conspiracy theories are hard to shake and people would much rather double-down than admit they are easily convinced by even the most spurious claims.
And Benjamin being Jewish added to the obsession.
The (((echoed))) responses left in comments of his Instagram posts, the focus on his Jewish background relating to “false flags” by well-followed accounts and their reply guys hits that point home.
Regardless, the clincher is that Benjamin looks only vaguely like the dweeb who lost his mask in the Portland suburb. He was living life 1,000 miles away when the Oregon City slap-fight went down. If he really could have teleported up there, he must've gained a few pounds on the way back along with some extra facial hair. His nose, eyes, and eyebrows seemed to have changed shape as well.
Also, he would've healed up that head wound he received in the filmed tussle inhumanly fast.
If he is a fed, then Holy Moly do they have everyone beat with how well they can now bend time & space and transform human bodies overnight.
(several twitter accounts claimed that Benjamin's shorter hair was part of the coverup. Sure, but if we were trying to hide, we'd probably give ourselves at least a hair dye, a different style, or shave all of it off. Not just a light trim that changes little of our overall appearance. But that's just us being not idiots)
A related but sort of sad issue is that, in reality, almost all of us look like a lot of other people. No kidding. Each one of us are likely to have a doppelganger somewhere out there. Considering the grainy quality of the video screenshot going around, there's bound to be plenty more young men out there that sort of look like that doofus.
For instance, here's an Instagram post from a Fenerbahçe football club fan account with an almost identical dude...
(it's from several years ago, so probably not him)
Or there's the ex-singer from Canadian band “Hedley”...
(except he's currently in prison for sexual assault)
Speaking of singers and grifters, how about MAGA up-and-comer Joey Mannarino?
He nailed the look of “Unmasked Boy #2” while singing “Desire” for a Philly community cable show that never took off. According to the caption, “This young man has big things in his future.” Fitting because he's on our shortlist of grifters to showcase in the near future...
We should also consider “Green Libertarian” Ron Paul fanboy, Steve Bannon War Room guest, and opinion writer for the Moonie's Washington Times Kyle Olbert who also had a wonderfully tin-foil-covered reply to @Chaos_Memer's “crisis actor” tweet with:
“Mark Zuckerberg and Wolf Blitzer are alumni of the PatriotFront-linked AEPI. Andrew Borans, CEO of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation, served as an advisor to Turning Point USA, which helped organize the January 6th Rally in front of the White House. Counterintelligence asset?”
“PatriotFront-linked AEPI”??? And the only one that liked his tweet was Olbert himself. There is too much ignorance to unpack there, but even worse, this genius also looks like the second unmasked jerk in Patriot Front “RCNC-linked AEPI” crew...
Apologies to Ben for pointing out how many not-good people he might look a little bit like, but this just means there are likely a whole bunch of you out there that look like Benjamin Brody in lo-def photos taken of you as well.
Trendy tin-foil hats
Benjamin Brody is not just the victim of mistaken identity, but also of an unhinged world built by opportunistic grifters using social media to build their perpetual manufactroversy machines.
The US is built on conspiratorial thinking. That'll never go away, but they've made a huge comeback in recent years.
The flat-earthers and moon-landing skeptics of the past are now looking around going “WTF?!? This is crazy!”
The thing is that conspiracy theories tend to break down when we consider conspiracies involve people, time, and scope.
If the “conspiracy” takes a lot of time, then it will inevitably be found out. Conspiracies can be a slow burn, but they can only remain under wraps if there aren’t many people involved.
Because if it involves a lot of people, it is insane to think that it would never get out.
And if it involves a large scope, many locations, or too many elements, then there’s even less of chance the real story would be kept under wraps.
And if we consider removing any thing from the equation, would the whole thing crumble.
Take the Patriot Front for instance:
If the PF were a “fed” operation, it would be the worst ROI being an extremely limited “psyop” that involves wayyy too many white boys out there without a single anybody leaking that they happen to be a huge “fed-op.” Leaked records show a group of goofballs spawned from another group of known white supremacists who were at the Unite the Right rally coordinating for years and years around the US. If this were all just a big “psyop” to make white nationalists look bad, then why? White Nationalists already do the job of making themselves look bad all by themselves. They don't need the government's help to make it worse, let alone a kid who just graduated college a few days earlier.
Seriously, check out the above link filled with 400+ GB of media and files. They include conversations PF members had with Proud Boy leaders discussing plans and coordinate actions, including Knuteson's chats with the some of Portland's high-ranked PBs. Or you can download it from DDOSecrets, a site conveniently banned from SpaceX owner's “free speech” platform.
But this is about Benjamin and how the “conspiracy” around him falls apart. The notion that him and many others remained hush-hush for at least a year while Mr. Brody simultaneously was undercover as both a student in a Southern California University and an active member in a Northern Oregon hate group and somehow fitting in around a year of training that would take him away from his schooling, is loony.
And the scope being regularly traveling 1,000 miles to make a small handful of goofs look bad. Granted, these goofs are connected with a pile of other goofs throughout the US. Which makes this conspiracy theory downright moronic. There's a whole bunch of these PF and PB dudes. So one has to go to great lengths to believe that the federal government spent a ton of resource to have videos of themselves training all these goofs in various places across the US over the last 6 or so years to make them look like goofs and all of the aggrieved white boys stayed quiet about it.
And one of them was a Jewish kid graduating with a BS in Anthropology that they flew up and down the west coast? And he was so instrumental that he had to be quickly flown in after walking across a graduation stage two days earlier because they couldn't get anyone closer to show up to an anti-LGBTQ hangout?
We mean this with all due offense...
This is brain-worm level stuff.
This is beyond ludicrous thinking of how things work with the government, time, and space.
And speaking of look-a-likes, take another gander at the photos of these PF goofballs. There's more than a few that look close enough to “unmasked guy #2” that you can have your pick of neo-Nazi doppelgangers. And yet none of them are Benjamin Brody.
(it is sort of awesome that not only does unmasked goof #2 have to keep his head down now, but many of his fellow antisemitic right-wingers also think he's Jewish)
9chan
All this is yet another unwarranted outrage machine amplified by social media and the rage they have farmed is pointed at another innocent random person who could not have cared less about Oregon City but now has to deal with a barrage of hostility coming at him and his family.
The hypocrisy runs deep when the same guy who pronounced that his platform doesn't allow doxxing, has no issues with doxxing an innocent man who he has been suckered into believing is involved in a plot to smear his fellow antisemitic alt-Right buddies as the bad guys.
These angry twitter-folk have been riled up by a micro-blogging network quickly morphing into the newest chan and it's trust-fund turned government-contract-funded owner seems to embracing it with glee.
But they mad that there were Nazis at an anti-LGBTQ shindig. That's normal nowadays.
They're mad at the fever-dream notion of the FBI trying to make people, who these folk at least tacitly agree with, look bad.
And by extension, it makes them look bad.
Because in this nefarious plot to make hate groups actually look like hate groups they are the real “victims.”
So while the rest of us in reality are subject to their wrath, the bogeyman is yet again their own shadows.
Luckily this seems to have remained an online debacle. And as debacles that arise suddenly from micro-blogging platforms, they tend to dissipate rather hastily. But these things sometimes have a way of spilling over into real-life-land. So we need to realize that what happens online still has real-world consequences.
We hope that Benjamin Brody comes out of this unscathed. These troubles may have sent him in an interesting and positive life direction. And luckily he seems to have a strong support from his former classmates.
If you see this Ben, let us know if you'd like anything corrected. We tried to only look into enough details to confirm how preposterous this last week's social media silliness has been. Apologies for invading your personal life in anyway. We simply wanted to document the bullshit and point out that it is indeed bullshit.
Good luck out there.
Two of the Worst Far-Right Groups are Now Fighting Each Other – Vice
Conspiracy Theorists (and Elon Musk) Falsely Accuse Student of Being 'Fed' Posing as Neo-Nazi - Vice follow up mentioning this article. ThanX for the nod, Mack!
'Hugely damaging': Most Americans are being harassed online when using Facebook, Twitter and Reddit
Twitter, others slip on removing hate speech, EU review says
Patriot Front: Behind Conspiracist Claims That the Far-Right Group Are 'Feds'
P.S. The RCNC has offered to have a “mutual combat fight” with the PBs. Probably akin to what football supporter groups sometimes do in Europe. What an interesting turn of events that most of these MAGA normies also may have trouble wrapping their heads around.
P.P.S. We moved this last part because it felt like it was gumming up a portion of the above ramblings.
But we've kept it because it was fun and we don't owe anybody anything:
So the great Amiri King followed up his initial stumble into the foray with an even more idiotic tweet tweet of “questions” which answering may illustrate the high level of “every thing I don't like is a fed” conspiracy theorists we're working with here:
Accused Patriot Front member, Ben Brody, has uploaded a video of himself denying any involvement with the hate group. Here's a list of my personal red flags: Ben Brody waited until he scrubbed his personal instagram down to 4 posts AND until he was removed entirely from his fraternity page before addressing the accusations by uploading this video. Why? What are you hiding?
- the dipshits you sent were harassing Ben. The author has been harassed by QAnon & far-right bigots and shut down his accounts as well. It's a sane thing to do to stop harassment.
Photos of the side profile of your face?
- ya, Ben doesn't owe you anything. The video was to tell you dweebs to piss off. Also, he doesn't need your stage direction, naked selfie pfp guy.
Ben mistakenly (I think intentionally) referred to Patriot Front as 'Patriotic Front.' Surely someone who just graduated with a degree in criminology from UC Riverside with the goal of working for the US government would know. EXACTLY who Patriot Front is, right? I believe he did that intentionally to mislead people.
- Benjamin doesn't need to care what it's called. We call the PBs “Pud Boys” and PF the “PeeFront” on the regular. He's got better things to do and besides, he graduated with a BS of Anthropology. Anthropologists don't necessarily care about the PF. In fact, most LEOs we've talked to have no clue who they are and have only heard of the PBs. (although some of their coworkers happen to be members) We also know federal investigators that have no clue about the #altRight and their related apologists.
- also, it's spelled “Rose City Nationalist Club”. Not “Patriot Front”. He can't that right. Great investigative skills there drug-dealing “instagram model”.
Ben's twitter account was active at the time of the skirmish with the Proud Boys. Now all of a sudden it's suspended? Why? Why is your Twitter account suspended? Also, why didn't you address this in the video when this is one of the burning questions?
- buddy, settle down. You should ask Elmo about the suspension. I suppose it's shut down because of incoming harassment. We haven't spoken with Benjamin, but it's happened before.
- quick question: why aren't your tweets searchable?
- he posted the video after his family was harassed (see above). He didn't see your list of demanding questions. He doesn't live on #Twitter like you do. Nor does he care what a middle-aged naked man with 154,000 followers thinks. None of us do. But we totally believe that you would react in a perfect manner if we blamed something on you that wasn't true and then doxxed you. We get it, you'd of course be great at answering all the questions from all the thousands upon thousands of blue-checked wackos coming at like a swarm of stupid.
Last but not least. Ben's exaggerated hand gestures are a total red flag for me. I've spent too man years of my life locked up in prisons with toooo many liars for that to NOT catch my [eye]. That might be a stretch for some people, but it's telling to me.
- ya, that's stretch. And we get it, if someone has been locked up they will either not tell a soul or they won't STFU about it. Of course you're one of the latter. We've worked with enough of them to know, they seriously won't let you forget it and will tell you how to make frito's pizzas and toilet wine, as if it's some kind of delicacy. No one that matters cares about your “special set of prison skills”.
- Please, learn about the concept of self-awareness for once.
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an epilogue as of 31 May 2024...
A day or so after publishing this, we tossed a link for this post over to a Vice magazine journalist who had written the first decent article covering the Oregon City dust-up in hopes that he would at least pass this on to Ben.
(FUN FACT: Oregon City used to be the home of a white supremacist “Patriot” militia named “Republic v. Democracy Redress.” We wrote up a humongoid 4-part article on the racist history of the phrase “We are a Republic, Not a Democracy” which includes a mention of these lily-white weirdos. yay, Oregon City.)
A week later, the journalist, Mack Lamoureux, wrote an article focused on Ben’s situation which included a link to the Medium version of this post. That was nice.
We thought, like most online shenanigans, that may be the end of it and Ben at least had a better understanding of the silliness that was affecting his novice-anthropologist life. But a few months later, a Huffington Post article announced the filing of a lawsuit by Benjamin Brody against Elon Musk for libel.
We were taken aback when we found out that the attorney who took Ben’s case on was Mark Bankston, the fella who took on Alex Jones for the Sandy Hook parents. And phooey was the lawsuit an awesome read.
Also, rather cool to see this story covered by national and international news, from NPR to CNN to Bloomberg to Reuters to arstechnica to Forbes to Verve to the illustrious KnowYourMeme.
Even funner, is the current owner of X-twitter demonstrating for the court, his deep non-understanding of how things work and some other sketchy goofballness. His fan-club may not agree, but it really seems to be a bit of of a theme for him.
Extra neato to see tidbits we wrote up here getting used in a court case. Apparently, the screenshot that we had taken (but forgot to archive) of his reply to the ZeroHedge account is being used as consequential evidence. Fun stuff for sure.
Fingers & toes crossed for Benjamin.