Louise Mensch’s disinformation outlet, largely archived, is a treasure trove showing what the operative and her associates were pushing on behalf of Peter Thiel. Here is a headline from one of Louise’s Heat Street writers after a relatively smooth transition from Mensch’s dumpster fire to mainstream.
Fred Brennan, the Nazi OpEd writer, fugitive of the Philippines for cyber libel connected to his online and continuing suicide trolling of former boss Jim Watkins, is a neo-Nazi furry. Here is an October 22, 2022 tweet targeting Josh Moon, a co-worker on the Watkin’s White Nationalist Filipino pig farm that made his own radicalization engine to compete with Fred’s 8Chan (owned by Jim Watkins, controlled by Fredrick until November 2019), called KiwiFarms.
Let’s tie this back to Louise's Heat Street with this April 4, 2016 headline by the same journalist that did the Furry Alt-right Newsweek article.
The gist of the Heat Street article was to boost Fred Brennan’s GamerGate, which began on Wizardchan and was moved by Fred to his newer message board designed as a radicalization engine, 8Chan that would later go on to also host the QAnon operation meant to build a fifth column of January 6th insurrectionists. GamerGate was horrifically abusive attempting to kill via swatting, women in gaming. Heat Street was intentionally blurring the truth, albeit to a very tiny audience.
GamerGate was recently covered on RadPod, with special guest Brianna Wu who is still routinely targeted by many of Fred’s co-conspirators.
The Heat Street article was short, full of lies, and propped up White Supremacy taking digs at KiwiFarms while protecting 8Chan and GamerGate.
For those not in the loop, Gamergate is an online movement fighting for better ethics in gaming journalism and against gaming censorship that is dogged by criticism that its worst members harass women game developers.
GamerGate, besides trying to get women killed, was a movement aimed to metastasize disaffected mostly white males bombarding them constantly with supremacy, misogyny, child porn, regular porn, gang-stalking brigading of targets like Wu or Rapp, until they were fully radicalized and able to be weaponized. The only reason Fred Brennan got cold feet and bailed on the project, was after his years-long efforts produced the first 8-Chan live-streamed mass shooting November 2019 in El Paso, that genuinely freaked him out.
Jim Watkins stopped paying Fred sometime after Brennan’s public “shut it down” tour on mainstream media. Keep in mind, Fred according to the HBO documentary, was the only one of Jim Watkin’s employees that had access to 8Chan’s servers which Jim had bought several years before, while directly employing the alt-right Furry.
And while many might sympathize with Fred’s sudden change of heart, that pivot was more to reduce his own exposure to accountability more than anything else. He still engages in the same exact manner, conducting abusive suicide trolling on Twitter, protected by Twitter Safety getting his account returned promptly after banned briefly for criminal behavior.
Here is an example of how the author placated and appealed to those using Kiwi Farms:
Some of the users on Kiwi Farms would make great investigative journalists or opposition researchers if they spent their time productively. Whichever user made the allegation against Rapp presumably had to trawl the pages of call girls in the Seattle area, find images with known images of Rapp, and check the meta data from each individual picture to find any matches. None of this could be automated, but perhaps Rapp herself provided the initial clue after her firing.
Sounds like a recruitment pitch to the Matt Donovan’s of the internet’s underbelly.
Here is a far more accurate use of GamerGate before the radicalization engine began churning out mass shooters, courtesy of a Matt Donovan sock.
The whole point of many of the Heat Street article’s I have so far looked at was to prop up MAGA3x programs, normalize bad actors involved in those and to push conspiracies. In this case, one author not Mensch, clearly shows how that disinformation “media” outlet was used to prop up GamerGate, KiwiFarms users by complimenting them, and subtly, normalizing Fred Brennan.