Dan Gillmor on Nostr: From the NY Times: "A few years ago, Jack Posobiec was a fringe figure and a ...
From the NY Times:
"A few years ago, Jack Posobiec was a fringe figure and a right-wing agitator best known for helping spread “Pizzagate,” a conspiracy theory about Democrats running a satanic child abuse ring underneath a Washington pizza parlor.
"This month, he was invited by the Republican National Committee to speak to a group of volunteers about how to monitor elections in Michigan."
This story won't cause more than a tiny ripple, Fascism is getting normalized.
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