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Global elites want to destroy current energy system and institute ‘green transition’: Marc Morano

'The World Economic Forum, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, players like Bill Gates, George Soros, it's a very simple vision. Their stated goal...is to intentionally collapse our energy system to create a transition to what they're seeking — solar, wind, green energy, and limited resources,' said ClimateDepot founder Marc Morano.

By Rebel News | May 04, 2023 | News Analysis

On last night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, ClimateDepot founder Marc Morano joined the show to discuss how global elites are intentionally destroying crucial sectors of economies to set the conditions for a societal shift towards a "green transition."

As stated by Mr. Morano, "They're trying to collapse our current agriculture and food system, and they're doing that in so many different ways. But all under the umbrella, pretty much, of the net-zero agenda. And the net-zero agenda...deals with theNetherlands as the first test case where the idea is 'you can't have nitrogen because nitrogen creates nitrous oxide, it's a greenhouse gas, we've got to go after these farmers."

He went on to say, "They issued a report in 2007 — the United Nations — saying that cow emissions, i.e methane, were more damaging to the earth than the entire transportation sector — planes, trains, automobiles — combined. So they've had cows and meat-eating in their target for decades."

"We've had UK climate advisors say that 'we want to make meat rare and expensive,'" added Mr. Morano.

"What Bill Gates, as you mentioned, stated goal is to get Europe, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and all of Western nations off of eating livestock-grown animal meat. His stated goal is to have us eat synthetic, fake meat," said Mr. Morano.

This is just an excerpt from last night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show. To watch full episodes of The Ezra Levant Show and more exclusive content, subscribe to RebelNews+.

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carbon credit cards?! The World Economic Forum’s new climate agenda

Mastercard and the UN announced their partnership for these carbon footprint monitoring credit cards, which will cut off your ability to spend once you hit your carbon max.

On last night’s episode of :{:{The Ezra Levant Show:(style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:400"):}::(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:, guest host Sheila Gunn Reid spoke to Marc Morano, creator of :{ClimateDepot.com,:(style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:400"):}: about the World Economic Forum’s plans to use the ‘COVID template’ of micro-monitoring individuals in order to fight climate change.

The World Health Organization has declared that climate is the greatest health threat of the twenty-first century, and if the climate is left unchecked we will get more COVID-like viruses.

“So, if you don’t support the net-zero, Green New Deal, U.N. climate agenda, you are a grandma killer because that’s gonna lead to more runaway viruses,” said Morano.

Morano talked about how Al Gore joined forces with Google to come up with the 'Climate Trace Initiative' which is essentially a carbon social credit system that will monitor 70,000+ individual CO2 emitters such as farms, factories, and businesses.

“Mastercard and the UN last year announced their partnership for these carbon footprint monitoring credit cards. In other words, if you’re spending money it’s gonna monitor it, if you’re buying meat, gas, putting your thermostat too high, spending money on energy bills, then whammo, it cuts off your ability to spend once you hit your carbon max.World Economic Forum praised this credit card, Visa this year is joining it,” he said.

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in case you're unaware, the annual United Nations climate conference is fast approaching. This year's event, hosted in Egypt, will bring the world's climate hypocrites together starting on Nov. 6 and running until Nov 18.

While Rebel News won't be in attendance this year, another skeptic of the UN's so-called green policies will be, Climate Depot's Marc Morano.

Marc joined last night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show to share his past experiences covering the conference and what he thinks about this year's gathering.

Speaking about how the world is facing an energy crisis, Marc asked rhetorically, “And what is the UN going to do?”

Well, in his opinion:

They're going to double down, as is Joe Biden and I'm sure Justin Trudeau, and say this is a great opportunity, all this chaos to now have a faster transition than we thought. And that's the insanity that is the United Nations conference in Egypt that I'll be attending.

This clip is just an excerpt from a full-length episode of The Ezra Levant Show. New episodes air weeknights at 8 p.m. ET | 6 p.m. MT and are available exclusively for subscribers to RebelNews+.

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it's weird to see video footage of German police, and Austrian police, sweeping through the streets, walking through private businesses, shouting “your papers!” I mean, it’s weird in that we’re generally used to seeing that in grainy black and white footage.

Papers please! Ihre Papiere, bitte! For the better part of a century, that was a western catch-phrase, summing up the police state aspects of Nazism.

I’m not saying that movies are real, or that catch-phrases have a deep meaning. It’s just that, for 80 years, that’s been a knock on Germany and even Germans.

I believe a lot of the liberalism of Germany over the last 75 years has been a reaction to, a compensation for, the “papers please” ideology of the Nazis. So it wasn’t just Hollywood movies; I think Germany had a psychological crisis, dealing with what they did, or what they passively permitted.

On tonight's show, we'll look at how COVID restrictions are rolling out in Germany this week.

After the Holocaust, came the Nuremberg Code — really the opposite of the racist laws — a code of medical ethics that requires free, informed, prior consent before undergoing a medical procedure. It came from the trial of Nazi doctors who performed experiments on Jews in the prison camps.

They’ve thrown it all out. All the lessons of the Holocaust. The demonization; the marginalization; the separation, the ghettoization; the incarceration.

I hope they won’t go the last yard — the elimination. I know it sounds insane to even suggest it.

But can you believe how fast it’s gone so far? Camps. They’re building camps. Papers. They’re demanding papers. They’re hunting for Jews, I mean unvaxxed people. They’re demonizing them. They’re going to inject them.

I’m sorry my friends. There are many wonderful German people, I have visited that country and I see many admirable things about it, I like the German people, I like how Germans think, I love their industriousness, I love a lot about Germany. There are a few asterisks, let’s say.

But I haven’t held a grudge; I’m a Jew who likes Germany. Why would I blame someone today for something done 80 years ago. I would never call a German a Nazi without cause.

My friends: the Nazis are back.

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Marc Morano: Even the liberals are waking up to the lockdowns

The left has been largely silent on COVID human rights violations, but some are waking up.

By Rebel News | December 07, 2021

On last night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Marc Morano (Follow @ClimateDepot on Twitter) joined Ezra to talk about the liberals finally speaking up about COVID vaccine mandates and lockdowns.

Here's a bit of what Marc had to say:

“...The idea is that your rights are conditioned upon whether you are being obedient to the regime in power. And that's literally all it is. New York City now is going to be doubling down.

“But here's the good news, Ezra, there are liberals who are waking up to this.

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., my new hero, a man who wanted to jail climate skeptics. Naomi Wolf, Max Blumenthal had an incredible piece about lockdowns. He talks all about how the left has just been largely silent on the greatest human rights violations on what's been going on.”

This is just an excerpt from the full Ezra Levant Show.

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. It worked. With help from sympathetic (and largely conservative) media outlets and a barrage of propaganda from industry front groups like “Energy in Depth,” the industry was able to brand the victims as liars and charlatans. “Their water was always like that” became a meme—a “sciencey” explanation that let the industry off the hook and blamed the victims. Each new case got the same treatment, and with oil industry PR money behind it, much of the nation believed it.

Central to the oil industry’s branding of fracking as a clean source of energy is the claim that “there’s never been one case of water pollution from fracking.” Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exon (and now Secretary of State) looked straight into the camera and proclaimed in an interview with Charlie Rose in 2013 that after “a million data points,” there had “never been a verifiable case of fracking polluting drinking water.” The claim was patently false. At that point we knew aquifers had been polluted in Dimock Pa, Pavilion Wyoming and Parker Country Texas. Texas, Colorado, Wyoming resulting in dozens of water wells being polluted. Testing in all three cases pointed to gas extraction.

In fact, there are documented cases of fracking contaminating drinking water as early as the 1980s. An EPA report from 1987 showed that “fracturing the Kaiser gas well on Mr. James Parson’s property, fractures were created allowing migration of fracture fluid from the gas well to Mr. Parson’s water well.” Industry itself admitted that fracking polluted the well. During the 1990s when modern fracking technologies were being pioneered in Texas, widespread instances of pollution were acknowledged by Texas regulators.

But with enough people in positions of power and influence repeating it, the claim that there had never been a single case of fracking polluting drinking water became a “fact.” Media figures, oil industry officials, politicians, state regulators and gas and oil PR teams repeated the same story line: Fracking has been around for seventy years and there’s never been one documented case of pollution.

There were numerous problems with this story. First, modern slick-water fracking combined with horizontal drilling is a relatively new technology. Comparing the “stimulation” of old vertical wells to modern fracks with pressures up to 15,000 PSI and hundreds of chemicals is like comparing a 1960s rotary phone to today's iPhone.

Also left out of the not-one-case story is a clever sleight of hand with the definition of fracking. The oil industry defines “fracking” as only what happens in the horizontal section of pipe thousands of feet underground. According to this reasoning, the only way fracking can pollute drinking water is by migrating through thousands of feet of solid rock. Pollution from the vertical part of the well—where most leaks occur—or surface activity is not in this technical definition pollution from fracking.

Of course, most people understand fracking as the whole process of transporting equipment and chemicals to the site, drilling the well, extracting the gas and transporting it to market. Oil industry PR people are perfectly willing to use this confusion to their advantage. They can cite scientific papers claiming that “there has never been a case of fracking polluting drinking water,” and let the public believe they are referring to the common-sense definition of fracking as the entire industrial process.

Industry leaders like Tillerson know all this, of course. But they just keep repeating the same misleading claim. If enough “experts,” authority figures and media personalities keep repeating it, the big lie becomes a fact in people’s minds. And once it’s embedded, these everyone-knows-it facts are very difficult to dislodge.

An important part of the oil industry drive to control perceptions of fracking is demonizing its critics. Victims are portrayed as greedy fraudsters. Environmentalists are portrayed as hysterical, hypocritical busy bodies inventing scandals about a clean energy technology they should be celebrating. Filmmakers like Josh Fox, whose film “Gasland” shined a spotlight on cases of pollution associated with fracking, were subjected to withering character assassination campaigns.

The IPAA, the oldest petroleum industry association in the nation, funded a film a film to discredit “Gasland” called “Truthland.” It was a shiny spin piece that painted any case of water contamination as naturally occurring. The best known of these fracking-denial films is “FrackNation” by Phelim McAleer. McAleer has made a career out of making films depicting environments as hypocritical elitists and pollution victims as frauds and liars. A darling of conservative news outlets, McAleer has been one of the most effective proponents of fracking-has-never-contaminated-drinking-water meme. Other media figures like Alex Epstein and Ezra Levant have cashed in by writing Ann Coulter-style books popularizing oil industry talking points. Levant is famous in Canada for his shouting-head attacks on oil industry critics.

IPAA also fired up their own PR “news” outlet, Energy In Depth. In a memo announcing the new media group, IPAA stated the group’s goal; “EnergyInDepth.org: a state of the art online resource center to combat new environmental regulations,”. The venture was funded by major gas and oil interests including; BP, Anadarko, Marathon, EnCana, Chevron, Talisman, Shell, Halliburton and Schlumberger and Energy in Depth remains one of the main purveyors of the gas industry’s talking points regarding water, fracking and pollution.

When a reporter or member of the public asks if fracking pollutes drinking water, they’re likely asking if any part of the entire process contaminates drinking water. That’s logical since the entire process will be used as the nation moves forward with the planned fracked gas revolution. When the question is answered with a resounding, seemingly convincing ‘NO’, the reporter or citizen thinks no water has ever been contaminated by any part of the fracking process.

While industry has gotten away with this ruse for a decade, hundreds of cases of water contamination have become known. After a long fight, The Scranton Times got Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection to count the number of letters it sent to residents confirming incidence of water contamination during their fracked gas boom. That number was 243. The Associated Press found at least four states had recorded water contamination also. One troubling fact keeps us from knowing how many cases have actually occurred. When a homeowner settles their case with the operator, they are required to sign a silence agreement that disallows them from sharing any facts about their case. Not only do we know hundreds of cases of water contamination related to the fracking boom have occurred, as it is today, we can never know how many cases there really have been.

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Canadian conservative commentator and climate science denialist Ezra Levant has won his battle with the United Nations to have staff from his media outlet accredited to cover climate talks starting next week in Morocco.

Three staffers from Levant’s online outlet, The Rebel, were initially denied media accreditation for the COP22 talks in Marrakesh, after the UN described Rebel as “advocacy media”. TheFinancial Post is reporting that the UN has granted Rebel two spots, but Rebel is pushing back for a third.

Since hearing from the UN in early October, Levant has been campaigning furiously to force the UN to change its mind. He gained support from three journalism groups, gathered 10,000 names on a petition and won the backing of Canada's environment minister, Catherine McKenna.

Levant even travelled to New York to hand the petition to Canada’s permanent mission to the United Nations.

But along the way, Levant has repeatedly shown footage from the last major climate change talks in Paris to bolster his case. Levant says the footage shows journalists in the Paris media room “jumping for joy”. This, according to Levant, shows their lack of objectivity and just why his “real journalists” should be allowed inside the COP22 talks as media.

But DeSmog has investigated the origins of the clip and can confirm that the footage does not show journalists and was not filmed in “the media room”, as Levant has repeatedly claimed.

The clip was originally filmed and shared on Twitter by a passing journalist — Miranda Johnson, of The Economist — who has confirmed Rebel did not seek permission to use her footage and, if it had, it would have been refused.

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credentials

Levant holds a commerce degree from the University of Calgary and formerly alaw degree from the University of Alberta. He applied to resign from the legal profession in 2016while facing disciplinary charges over a newspaper column. [1], [34]

Background

Ezra Levant is a Canadian television and radio personality, conservative political activist, and author of *Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands*, the book that popularized the phrase “Ethical Oil,” which is now being used by the conservative government in Canada as justification for the expansion of the Athabasca tar sands.

He is the founder and former publisher of The Western Standard, and formerly ran his own Sun TV program “The Source.” Sun News shut down in 2015 after failing to find a new owner.After Sun Media shut down, Levant moved his reporting to Rebel Media where he is “Rebel Commander.” iPolitics described the site as “the de facto epicenter of Canadian right-leaning political discourse.” [35], [37], [38]

In his early years, Levant undertook an internship with the Charles G. Koch Foundation’s Summer Fellowship program in 1994, and then proceeded to work for the Fraser Institutein 1995 where he wrote Youthquake, which argued for smaller government and privatization of the Canada Pension Plan.[2]

According to a search of the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada, from 2009 until 2010, Levant worked as a lobbyist for Rothman’s Incorporated, a manufacturer and distributor of tobacco products. [3]

Charlottesville Controversy

Controversy hit shortly after The Rebel’sFaith Goldy’s broadcast from the alt-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. According to *The National Post*, Goldy “had spoken sympathetically of a rising ‘white racial consciousness’ and dispassionately about the ‘JQ’ or Jewish question, a longtime obsession of white nationalists.” Maclean’s noted that Goldy repeatedly called marchers on the side of white nationalists “patriots.” She was still broadcasting when. [39], [40], [41]

After Goldy’s coverage, Rebel cofounder Brian Lilley quit and a number of contributors walked away.Lilley announced on a Facebook post that he no longer felt “comfortable” being part of the organization. Levant claimed that he had fired Levant [lilley?] last year. [42], [39]

“What may have started as a concern over the (Rebel’s) harsh tone taken on some subjects came to a head with this weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Virginia,” Lilley said in a Facebook post.Lilley said the protest “was really an anti-Semitic white power rally.” [43]

Levant said he had no choice but to fire Goldy after she went on a podcast from the white supremacist news site Daily Stormer,which he wrote “was just too far. So we said goodbye.” [44]

After the events, a number of conservative politicians in Canada including Jason Kenney, Brian Jean, and Andrew Scheer publicly distanced themselves from *The Rebel*. [45]

Later that week, Caolan Robertson, formerly one of The Rebel’s U.K. correspondents, posted a YouTube video titled ,” where he played recordings of what he claimed was Levant offering “hush money” to stay quiet regarding aspects of The Rebel. Robertson criticized The Rebel further in the video, saying “The Rebel takes its money from ordinary hardworking people […] But, it also quietly takes a lot of money from less ordinary, more wealthy people.” Note that the original video is no longer on YouTube. [46]

Levant responded to Robertson’s video, claiming that Robertson and another man were blackmailing him: [47 [vid]

the :{Washington Times:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: reported on August 21 that the Rebel Media website was “was abruptly terminated for roughly half of his global audience.” A technology company, which Levant did not name, stopped directing traffic to some users internationally. Levant said he was given 24 hours notice and no explanation for the action. [48]

“If this was a political censorship decision, it is terrifying – like a phone company telling you it is cancelling your phone number on 24 hours notice because it doesn’t like your conversations,” Levant told Reuters. [49]

During the same week, the advocacy group Press Progress released a report claiming that Levant had received an undisclosed amount of funding from the Middle East Forumin 2015. [50]

After the events, Levant said the site would not necessarily shut down: [51]

“I’m a flawed leader who has made mistakes,” he wrote in a post on *The Rebel*. “But as long as you stand with me, I will still stand.” He added, “I think we need more oversight — not more censorship — just to make sure we’re really being on brand with what we believe, what we stand for.” [51]

Rebel News & Extremist Groups

The Proud Boys have been described as an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and in Feb. 2021 were labeled a terrorist group in Canada. [53], [54]

McInnes founded the Proud Boys in 2016. In 2018, McInnes publicly stated that he was “officially disassociating” himself from the far right group shortly after the FBI had categorized the Proud Boys as “an extremist group with ties to white nationalism” in a briefing to Washington state law enforcement. [55], [56]

In a September 2019 with Ezra Levant, Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes said that his early relationship with Rebel News was what helped him become famous. Levant said he had also benefited from that relationship:[57]

Ezra Levant: [00:00:03] “You really helped build The Rebel in a number of ways. I want to tell you that. I think you know that. You helped us reach beyond guys like me who came up through politics.” [00:00:11]

Gavin McInnes: [00:00:11] “You made me famous, unfortunately, which I don’t like.” [00:00:14]

Ezra Levant: [00:00:15] “Weren’t you famous before?” […]

Gavin McInnes: [00:00:17] “No, I was never recognized before Rebel.” [00:00:19]

Ezra Levant: [00:00:19] “Well, I mean, you did hundreds of videos and you were the star of all the videos. So I guess you became famous.” [00:00:24]

Gavin McInnes: [00:00:24] “No. Yeah, I did hundreds of videos for you, you mean?” [00:00:26]

Ezra Levant: [00:00:26] “Yeah.” [00:00:26]

Gavin McInnes: [00:00:26] “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Before that I did some comedy sketches. I’d get recognized maybe once a week. After the Rebel videos blew up, I am stopped by millennials, mostly white millennial men, five times a day. And they all want a selfie, which is infuriating because what are you doing with that selfie? Like we’re not friends.” [00:00:45]

A search for “Gavin” in Rebel Media’s YouTube page returns over 300 videos.

Gavin McInnes left the Rebel in August 2017.[58]

“Gavin’s a great friend and a great talent,” Rebel Media founder Ezra Levant told Canadaland in an email. “We tried to keep him, but he was lured away by a major competitor that we just couldn’t outbid.”

According to Canadaland: “McInnes was one of The Rebel’s earliest hosts, joining the company in April 2015, shortly after it launched.”

McInnes published a video titled “10 Things I Hate About Jews”on Rebel News in March, 2017. [59]

Two days earlier, Rebel Newspublished a video on YouTube titled .”

According to Canadaland, Levant changed the title to “10 Things I Hate About Israel” within 12 hours. “I chose both headlines,” Rebel head Ezra Levant told Canadaland in an email. “I liked the first one because it was provocative; but then I changed it to the second one because it was more descriptive. I should probably have stayed with my first instincts.” [59]

Rebel reporter Sheila Gunn Reid also appeared on a 2019 podcast alongside a representative from the Calgary chapter of the Proud Boys to discuss “the Antifa and leftist history of assault.” [60]

This isn’t the only time staff for the Rebel have been tied to far-right extremist groups. Keean Bexte, a journalist at Rebel News was previously found to have worked for the “white supremacist web store” Fireforce Ventures by investigative reporters. [61]

According to an investigation by *Ricochet*,the online military surplus store’s “primary focus is the white-minority-rule state of Rhodesia, and its flagship product is a reproduction of the Rhodesian brushstroke, a camouflage pattern developed during Rhodesia’s dirty war against indigenous Africans.” [62]

“Fireforce personnel use pseudonyms when engaging in company affairs, but a Ricochet investigation has revealed ties to both the Canadian military and the far right,” Ricochet reported.

Bexte confirmed he had worked at the company “doing graphic design and shipping orders” until resigning “a few months” prior to the November 2018 piece. [61]

Bexte in the US on behalf of the Rebel, In a Jan. 11, 2021 video, Bexte calls the insurrection a “disaster, by every measure,” claiming that “99.99 percent” of the protesters had been peaceful. [63]

In a February 5, 2021 Rebel News podcast, Bexte defended the Proud Boys following the group’s classification as a terrorist group by Canada. [64]

Stance on Climate Change

June 2017

AfterDonald Trump announced :{U.S.:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, Ezra, but said he didn’t go far enough when he mentioned there was room to renegotiate. [36]

“”Global warming is designed to scam America, more than any other country,” Levant said in a TheRebel.media video. “That’s not my opinion. That’s a fact.” [36]

2016

“The world is over 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide and global warming has stopped … it’s paused.There is no correlation between carbon dioxide and global warming. If there was, you would sure see it. But there isn’t, so you don’t.” [32]

2012

Ezra describes man-made global warming as “a theory that has been cast into disrepute through not only the misconduct of its high priests but by scientific observation itself: There has been no measurable global warming since 1998, according to satellite weather data.” [4]

Key Quotes

August 2017

After controversy surrounding The Rebel‘s coverage of events in Charlottseville, among other issues, Levant wrote at The Rebel:

“I’m a flawed leader who has made mistakes. But as long as you stand with me, I will still stand.” He added, “I think we need more oversight — not more censorship — just to make sure we’re really being on brand with what we believe, what we stand for.” [51]

July 2016

“I don’t know if Donald Trump will be the next president. I do know that our key allies are walking away from the global warming mania of the past decade.

Only Trudeau is stupid enough and ideologically malicious enough to destroy our own economy — and Alberta, the province that he and his father have always despised — by using global warming as an excuse…” [33]

March 2014

“I’m a commentator, I’m a pundit,” he said to the judge. “I don’t think in my entire life I’ve ever called myself a reporter.” [22]

March 2012

“It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the “environment” ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity– the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.” [4]

September 2010

“And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia’s secret police and al-Qaeda’s murderers.” [5]

“The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty’s eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose.

“Do not confuse McGuinty’s belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

Ezra Levant’s Social Media Posts on US Insurrection

Levant wasamong dozens of the individuals and organizations profiled in DeSmog’s Disinformation Database who posted online or gave interviews about the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Some posted claims of election fraud, similar to those that drove the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6. Some circulated dubious information about the insurrection itself. DeSmog has preserved a selection of notable posts related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, including some that were later deleted or removed.

For example, on Jan. 10, 2021, Levant retweeted a tweet by @Cernovich that compared the Capitol insurrection, where five died, to a 2017 attack where a gunman opened fire on a congressional Republican baseball team practice, striking Rep. Steve Scalise in the hip and wounding several others before being fatally shot himself. Mike Cernovich’s Southern Poverty Law Center’s profile describes him as “one of America’s most visible right-wing provocateurs, known for boosting or generating massively successful conspiracy theories like#Pizzagate. He made his career on trolling the liberal establishment by accusing people of pedophilia or child sex trafficking.” [65],[66], [67], [68]...

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