Calling out Kelly Weill & Will Sommer for total hit piece on 8chan after the NZ Shootings
3-15-19
The article "Mosque Attack Video Linked to ‘White Genocide’ Rant" was just in notables. But what wasn't mentioned were the AUTHORS of this article: Kelly Weill & Will Sommer.
Sommer now has 15 anti-Q articles under his belt; Weill has seven. Some are written together. But one thing is consistent: all their articles are 100% hit pieces that eschew journalist objectivity. They know exactly what they are doing, and it's not journalism.
This outrageous quote is proof:
"8chan users cheered the attack online
with one replying to the original post with a picture of a man saluting."
The authors don't bother to note that the guy replying on /pol/ had no idea who he was replying to. He was probably shitposting; he thought the other guy was, too. Nobody in their right mind would cheer on a terrorist.
Weill & Sommer know three things perfectly well:
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8chan is an open board; anyone can post
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any reply supporting a terrorist act was either a shill or a crazy
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the vast majority of anon responses expressed concern & horror
But that's not what they wrote. Their appalling coverage is an affront to not only Q and the patriots, but simple human decency.
Moar on Kelly Weill: Most people know something about Sommer (see eg >>5555854, >>4678761). But maybe less about Weill. However, she has written a particularly significant recent article: "How Fringe Groups are using QAnon to amplify their Wild Message."See >>5497591 .
In it, Weill says this:
Germany’s politics are being manipulated online. But the perpetrators aren’t the much-talked-about Russian trolls accused of meddling in U.S. elections. They aren’t bot accounts, either. They’re conspiracy theorists riding on an American hoax.
She then cites the Inst. for Strategic Dialogue's "Battle for Bavaria" SOROS-funded study to back up those claims. This is the first major article that discusses Q in foreign countries, and it's a total hatchet job.
It's completely unacceptable that 8chan, a free speech forum, is portrayed by these fake news hacks as an incubation ground for violence, hatred or terror in any form.
Sauce:
>>5497591, >>5281065
https://www.thedailybeast.com/christchurch-shootings-mosque-attack-video-linked-to-white-genocide-rant