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Meet Mike Cernovich, the Right-Wing Provocateur Who Got James Gunn Fired

Rejected submission by aristarchus at 2018-07-22 00:44:04 from the Pizzagate-redux dept.
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It's this guy, you see. At The Wrap [thewrap.com]:

Right-wing provocateur Mike Cernovich claimed another scalp online Friday when Disney fired James Gunn from its “Guardians of the Galaxy” series because of old tweets that Cernovich helped publicize.

Disney made the decision after an organized internet campaign centered around old jokes Gunn made about rape and pedophilia. In a statement, Disney called the posts “indefensible.”

Just hours earlier, Cernovich had helped promote a campaign targeting USA Today columnist Cheri Jacobus, after she posted a bizarre tweet about convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Since first raising his public profile during the 2016 presidential campaign — often for pushing conspiracy theories like #PizzaGate — Cernovich has moved rapidly to rebrand himself as an independent media and Hollywood watchdog. With an army of volunteer sleuths and a muscular Twitter presence, he has proven devastatingly effective — much to the chagrin of his liberal critics.

Critics have noted that Cernovich, like the people he targets, has made offensive comments online. But he, unlike those he has targeted, is not employed by a major media outlet that needs to answer to mainstream audiences.

Unfortunately, crazed right-wing conspiracy theorists with assault rifles [time.com] do answer to his Pizza-gating!


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