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MAY 2022 Human Events, Post Millennial join together in big right-wing media merger
Human Events' acquisition unites Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, and Andy Ngo.
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Jeff Webb
Publisher
Jeff Webb is the Co-Publisher and Senior News Editor of Human Events. He is also the highly acclaimed entrepreneur who founded and built Varsity Spirit, best known for popularizing the sport of cheerleading on a global scale. Varsity's well-recognized cheerleading competitions, televised on ESPN for decades, make it the network's longest-running broadcast partner. In 2020, Webb published his first book, American Restoration-Unshackling the Great Middle Class. The book quickly reached Amazon's Number One Bestseller status in six separate categories. Webb has been devoted to philanthropic causes including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. He has also spearheaded a partnership between the (ICU) and International Special Olympics (ISO). He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma where he was an active campus leader. He's the father of two adult children, Jeffrey and Caroline, and resides in Memphis, Tennessee. He's an avid outdoorsman and conservationist and is also the proud owner of a grand champion Labrador retriever.
Elizabeth Emmons
Chief Editor
Libby Emmons has been The Post Millennial's Editor in Chief since April 1st, 2021. She has an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Libby has appeared on Fox News' Tucker Carlson, Ingraham Angle, and other shows and podcasts. Her work has been regularly featured on Real Clear Politics, and she has written for the New York Post, Quillette, Spectator World, American Conservative, Narratively, and other outlets. She is a Senior Contributor at The Federalist.
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Andy Ngo
Editor-at-large
Andy Ngo is an American journalist best known for covering protests in Portland, Oregon. He has written columns in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, National Review, and others. His series for the New York Post on Portland's "fake hate crime" industry became a viral sensation. He drew national attention when he was attacked by Antifa on the streets of Portland in the summer of 2019. Until recently, he was an editor for Quillette.com. His book “Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy” is a US bestseller.
Ari Hoffman
Associate Editor
Ari Hoffman is the associate editor and Seattle correspondent for The Post Millennial. Ari is the host of the Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI Seattle. He is a regular guest on Fox News and Newsmax and has been featured on The Dr. Drew Show, The Glenn Beck Show, 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper, NPR, the KOMO News Documentary 'Seattle is Dying,' as well as countless radio and TV outlets across the country. Ari attended Yeshiva University.
Hannah Nightingale
American News Editor
Hannah Nightingale has been the American News Editor for the Post Millennial since May, 2022. In addition to her role as an editor, she captures footage of events and protests in Washington DC and beyond, including protests regarding women’s issues, the environment, and current political hot button issues. Outside of the newsroom, she enjoys hiking and camping.
Roberto Wakerell-Cruz
Canadian News Editor
Roberto Wakerell-Cruz is a Montreal-based journalist, writer, and podcast host. He is the main host of This Week In Canada, a comedy and opinion news show. He has been featured in The Federalist and in Real Clear Politics. He can be followed on Twitter at @Robertopedia.
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May 6, 2025"We are working with law enforcement and through our own disciplinary processes to ensure those responsible face appropriate consequences for their actions," said UW President Ana Marie Cauce.
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Exclusive — Federal law enforcement sources told me that one of the rioters arrested Tuesday night is facing aggravated assault on law enforcement charges for throwing a machete at an officer. This occurred during Day 17 of the ongoing Antifa siege at the Portland ICE facility, where criminal acts of violence increases by the hour, particular against law enforcement officers.
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Early morning on election day, Posobiec tweets the hashtag #StopTheSteal.
(Source: Twitter)
A subsequent DFRLab analysis of tweets using the hashtag #StopTheSteal between approximately 9 p.m. ET Nov. 2 through 5 a.m. ET Nov. 4, finds that among its top promoters were accounts used by the Philadelphia GOP, Human Events publisher Will Chamberlain, Trump-supporting actor James Woods, Islamophobic activist Pamela Geller, conservative writer Carmine Sabia, and online influencers Posobiec and Mark Dice.
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As predicted, Election Day ends with many states still counting legitimately cast votes and no definitive election result.
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In March 2019, former Breitbart editor Raheem Kassam announced that he and a conservative lawyer named Will Chamberlainwere going to resurrect the storied right-wing journal Human Events, which had been muddling along for years. Two years later, the historic magazine has become yet another right-wing click factory, pumping out trumped-up investigations and snarky rewrites just as Breitbart did before it. The renaissance of the magazine provides the perfect capsule summary of the conservative movement’s long downward journey from pages to pixels.
A former Washington Post editor founded Human Events in 1944 to serve as a mouthpiece for conservative ideas. Over the next 40 years, it hosted a number of prominent right-wing political personalities—Murray Rothbard, Phyllis Schlafly, Spiro Agnew, and later such luminaries as Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter. It was Ronald Reagan’s favorite magazine. According to one of Reagan’s biographers, his staffers often sought to hide it from the president, lest the articles sway his view on some already-settled issue of taxation or Soviet détente. But over time its influence waned. By 2013, its owner, right-wing book outfit Eagle Publishing, put the magazine up for sale, citing financial difficulties and the ascendance of the 24-hour news cycle. A Christian publishing conglomerate bought it a year later, but the magazine remained moribund until the arrival of Kassam, a British think tank alum who co-founded the United Kingdom edition of Breitbart. Kassam carried over that website’s mentality at the launch, but left the new Human Events within half a year.
The new owners bought the website at a bargain-bin price of approximately $300,000 using Chamberlain’s disposable income, and relaunched it as online-only. There’s no ostentatious journal this time, nor is there much that resembles the argumentative essays of the old magazine. Instead, there’s just run-of-the-mill news aggregation with a standard right-wing bent—it’s not the Afghanistan withdrawal, for instance, but the “botched” Afghanistan withdrawal.
The current anchors of the magazine’s editorial staff includeBrent Hamachek, a former Turning Point USA adviser, and Jack Posobiec, a former Navy intelligence officer and conspiracy theorist who is perhaps best known for fueling the Pizzagate conspiracy and disrupting a Shakespeare in the Park performance of Julius Caesar in 2017. Posobiec’s recent fare has included write-ups of “leaked” slides from the CDC and reported dispatches on White House turmoil that may or may not be entirely the result of the author’s imagination. These articles appear alongside anti–cancel-culture screeds such as “THE DUCHESS IS A VICTIM AND FOOTBALL IS GAY,” notable for its commitment to mixed metaphor. Identity politics has engulfed the United States “like a tsunami,” the article says, and “Americans feel like deer caught in the headlights, on a road paved with eggshells.”
More than anything else, though, the revived Human Events feels pointless, yet another mill to churn out the same grist. The vast majority of articles are wispy-thin rewrites of reportage from The Wall Street Journal or Fox News, designed more to serve as fodder for Chamberlain’s never-ending Twitter feedthan as material for someone who wants to learn what is going on in the world. When Kassam relaunched the publication, he said he wanted it to represent “Trump as a philosophy, not Trump as a man,” and in a certain sense the resuscitated website has done that, but only in the sense that Trump’s “philosophy” consists of culture-war red meat and conspiratorial chicken feed.
No doubt there’s a market for the personalities Human Events is elevating, since it’s the same thing that everyone else on the right is doing—Chamberlain has almost 200,000 Twitter followers, Posobiec has more than a million. Still, there is something demoralizing about the total abasement of the right-wing media space. The old magazine might not have had noble ideas, but it at least took itself and those ideas seriously, whereas the new magazine cares for nothing except conspiracy and provocation.It turns out that the gutter is an ideal place from which to do one’s sniping.
Jake Bittle @jake_bittle
Jake Bittle is the author of The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/01/breitbart-alum-resuscitate-human-events/
Opinion Breitbart alum to resuscitate Human Events
By Erik Wemple
Media critic
March 1, 2019
Raheem Kassam (left) and Will Chamberlain will relaunch the conservative news site Human Events. (Erik Wemple Blog) (Erik Wemple)
Human Events was once a newspaper. Then it became an online news site. The next step? “MAGAzine.”
That’s the formulation of Raheem Kassam, the former editor in chief of Breitbart London, who has spearheaded the purchase of Human Events from Salem Media Group. According to an informed source, the purchase price for Human Events was around $300,000.
“We value the brand so highly,” says Kassam, who claims that there’s room in conservative media for a publication that mixes a tabloid sensibility with a hearty intellectual diet in every article. The site will do news reporting and opinion with an initial staffing level of eight journalists and a first-year budget of about $1 million, according to Kassam.
“Feisty MAGA types,” he says, should prepare their applications for the new Human Events: The new-look site should be up and running in about a month.
Jonathan Garthwaite of Townhall Media, an affiliate of Salem Media Group, confirmed to the Erik Wemple Blog that the sale closed on Wednesday night.
Human Events is intertwined with the conservative movement in the United States. Founded in 1944, the publication grafted its name from a trustworthy source: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
The publication reached peak influence in the 1980s, when longtime subscriber Ronald Reagan took up residence in the White House. Reagan was such a loyal reader that he was known to call or write to the editors to discuss the material, according to author Craig Shirley. So influential were the columns that staffers in the Reagan White House engaged in something of a distribution struggle. Top aides, noted historian Richard Reeves, “did their best each week to keep it out of the reading material they gave the President as he headed up to the living quarters and an evening of television.”
A timeline of Human Events history indicates that Reagan began subscribing to the publication in 1961, a time when the conservative media space was sparsely populated. As the decades wore on, Human Events had to learn to share. Since the arrival of the Internet alone, conservative sites such as the Daily Caller, FoxNews.com, the Blaze, NewsBusters, Independent Journal Review, Breitbart, PJ Media and RedState have jostled and elbowed their way toward a piecemeal fragmentation of the right-leaning U.S. audience.
Human Events couldn’t keep up. It dropped print in 2013, and, according to Kassam, it hasn’t turned out original content in four years, though it has been posting syndicated material from Townhall Media.
The new Human Events, pledges Kassam, will leave the poverty in the past. There will be high-end donors contributing to a nonprofit foundation (Kassam says he’s already courting three such people); there will be solicitations for micro-contributions, a la the Guardian; and there will be subscription content. The buffet business model, says Kassam, means the losses that traditionally pile up at political journals on the right and the left won’t do so at Human Events. “I don’t presume that we will” have losses, says Kassam, who insists that the ventures he helmed in the past have all “made a ton of money. I believe that I am that good,” he says.
Bankrolling the venture is Will Chamberlain, a lawyer who Kassam describes as “independently wealthy” and a fierce social-media supporter of President Trump:
#CNNisISIS pic.twitter.com/SjRuLEAHak
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) February 28, 2019
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The Cohen testimony was an appalling spectacle, and any lawyer cheering it on should be ashamed of themselves https://t.co/O3POOJ7jke
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) February 28, 2019
Not one comment yet from Republicans about Michael Cohen violating attorney client privilege or his duty of confidentiality
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Come on guys
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) February 27, 2019
So will Human Events serve as a cheering section for President Trump? “Pro-Trumpism,” says Kassam. “Sometimes Trump isn’t for Trump.” Kassam and Chamberlain — both in their 30s — agree that the site will stick up for the positions that carried Trump to victory in the 2016 presidential campaign. “That’s where I’ve been for almost a decade now, intellectually,” says Kassam.
Does that adherence extend to Trump’s attacks on the media? “I don’t feel like the media is the ‘enemedia.’ I’m not pugilistic about it,” says Kassam, who nonetheless foresees a “Fake News Awards” gala in the future of Human Events.
Kassam, a native of London, left Breitbart in May 2018. The break came months after former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon, who’d brought Kassem to the site in 2014, resigned his own position at Breitbart, a move precipitated when his typically edgy remarks surfaced in the popular book by Michael Wolff, “Fire and Fury.” Though Bannon and Kassam have been close, Kassam says he wouldn’t allow the fiery populist to get “anywhere near” his relaunched Human Events.
“Steve takes proprietary control over everything he touches. And that’s his way because he’s that kind of guy — he takes ownership of things,” says Kassam, who once served as an adviser to former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage.
While at Breitbart, Kassam backed Trump with patented Breitbartian bravado. After a woman named Jessica Leeds spoke out in December 2017 about an alleged sexual assault by Trump in the 1980s, Kassam said this on a Breitbart radio show: “The president is married to Melania Trump, one of the most beautiful and elegant women in the world. Jessica Leeds — uh, uh, looks like a, well I don’t want to be cruel. She doesn’t look like somebody that Donald Trump would hit on, grope, prey upon. Even her old pictures . . . 30 years ago when she’s claiming this exists. This doesn’t add up, this won’t stack up to people in their minds. Knowing what they know about President Trump is that he is to some extent a person who likes appearances, who likes good appearances. . . . He likes things glam. Jessica Leeds doesn’t look too glam to me.”
Asked whether he stands by such thinking — misogyny, actually — Kassam responds, “I get my looks attacked all the time as well.”
Kassam is author of “No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You,” a book that addresses a controversial term that got a great deal of rotation in the aftermath of the January 2015 Paris terrorist attack on the offices of satirical publication Charlie Hebdo. Chatter drifted toward so-called “no-go zones,” allegedly Muslim-dominated areas in France and other countries where sharia law prevailed and authorities feared to tread. Fox News apologized for lending credence to the no-go zone story. Kassam’s book defined the zones as areas “in which the authorities find it difficult to govern as they would govern the rest of the nation,” as the author told the Erik Wemple Blog. He also noted that German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a statement supporting his reporting.
Such editorial sensibilities will make the new Human Events distinct from its competitors. One of those will be the new site — “an independent conservative media company that resists partisan boosterism and combines a focus on old-school reporting with interesting and provocative commentary and analysis” — under the direction of Jonah Goldberg, a fixture at National Review, and Stephen F. Hayes, the last editor in chief of the recently shuttered Weekly Standard. There’s also the Bulwark, a newly invigorated conservative site with staffing from the Weekly Standard.
“It’s the fuddy-duddy neocon set just grasping for the last thing that they can get,” says Kassam.
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Human Events, Post Millennial join together in big right-wing media merger
Human Events' acquisition unites Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, and Andy Ngo.
Claire Goforth Claire Goforth Tech Posted on May 5, 2022 Updated on May 9, 2022,
On Wednesday, Human Events announced that it has acquired right-wing outlet the Post Millennial. The acquisition brings some of the most notorious members of the far-right media landscape together under one digital roof.
Canada-based the Post Millennial has courted controversy in recent years with what many describe as its biased coverage and for employing far-right provocateur Andy Ngo. Human Events’ stable of writers includes Ngo’s ideological allies such as Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk, and others.
The conservative Human Events has been a polarizing political force over its nearly 80-year history. Originally founded as a print publication in 1944, it went digital-only in 2013.
Former President Ronald Reagan credited Human Events with dissuading him of his liberal views and reportedly considered it his “favorite reading for years.” Reagan’s staff disliked its influence over the president so much that they reportedly blocked its delivery to him, leading Reagan to order several copies delivered to the White House residence on weekends.
Human Events ceased print publication in 2013. In 2019, Raheem Kassam and Will Chamberlain bought the outlet in the hopes of resuming a more regular publication schedule. Kassam departed very shortly thereafter. A year later, Human Events appointed Jeff Webb as co-publisher and senior news editor to rebuild it as a daily platform.
Rumors of Human Events’ and the Post Millennial’s business relationship began circulating online last week.
Some believe that the merger is a reaction to the Post Millennial losing advertisers over its employment of extremist-linked Ngo and coverage that often villainizes leftist activists and causes.
According to a release announcing the acquisition, the two entities will remain separate, but will share “social media assets, digital ad platforms, and other administrative resources.”
Fans of the publications reacted to the news with jubilation. They believe that the relationship will greatly increase the reach and influence of both. Similar more mainstream publications have undergone mergers recently as well, such as BuzzFeed acquiring HuffPost, and Vox purchasing New York Magazine
Their detractors similarly believe that the duo is more powerful than the sum of its parts. They’re concerned that the merger will facilitate each’s efforts to pollute the information ecosystem. “Dangerous bedfellows,”@kate_ross_ wrote of the news.
Researchers said they are already looking into which ad placement companies are working with Human Events.
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canada-based the Post Millennial has courted controversy in recent years with what many describe as its biased coverage and for employing far-right provocateur Andy Ngo. Human Events’ stable of writers includes Ngo’s ideological allies such as Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk, and others.
The conservative Human Events has been a polarizing political force over its nearly 80-year history. Originally founded as a print publication in 1944, it went digital-only in 2013.
Former President Ronald Reagan credited Human Events with dissuading him of his liberal views and reportedly considered it his “favorite reading for years.” Reagan’s staff disliked its influence over the president so much that they reportedly blocked its delivery to him, leading Reagan to order several copies delivered to the White House residence on weekends.
Human Events ceased print publication in 2013. In 2019, Raheem Kassam and Will Chamberlain bought the outlet in the hopes of resuming a more regular publication schedule. Kassam departed very shortly thereafter. A year later, Human Events appointed Jeff Webb as co-publisher and senior news editor to rebuild it as a daily platform.
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Andy Ngo seen laughing as Patriot Prayer members plan an attack in newly emerged video
'There's no way he couldn't know the group was planning on instigating violence against people at Cider Riot.'
Sierra Juarez Sierra Juarez IRL Posted on Aug 24, 2019 Updated on May 20, 2021,
A video has surfaced on Twitter that shows conservative journalist Andy Ngo laughing as members of the far-right group Patriot Prayer plan an attack on anti-fascist patrons at a Portland bar. The incident, which happened in May, is now at the center of a lawsuit.
The antifa members were having a peaceful May Day celebration when Patriot Prayer members came to protest, according to the Portland Mercury. Several fights broke out, and now the bar is suing the Patriot Prayer members for allegedly causing the riot. Ngo covered the event on Twitter and blamed the brawl on antifa.
Portland-based journalist Alex Zielinski posted a video, which is part of the court documents in the ongoing lawsuit and appears to negate Ngo’s claims.
“This clip, shot right before Patriot Prayer arrived at [the bar] Cider Riot on May Day, is the clearest evidence I’ve seen supporting the claim that PP … were intent on instigating a fight that afternoon,” Zielinski tweeted.
In the video, Patriot Prayer members discuss what weapons they have, talk about the direction of the wind to avoid getting pepper-sprayed, and some make phone calls to request for backup.
Ngo is present in the video and can even be seen laughing at certain points.
“[Ngo] smiles as they joke about being outnumbered. There’s no way he couldn’t know the group was planning on instigating violence against people at Cider Riot,” Zielinski tweeted.
In Ngo’s coverage of the riots, he posted misleading videos that crop out violent actions from Patriot Prayer members, putting the blame fully on antifa. Since then, videos have emerged that discredit several of his tweets.
“As more people send me clips, it becomes clear that Andy’s work is plagued by these dishonest edits. For example, in this clip, he edited out some goons stomping a man’s head, and did it with a sloppy looking jump-cut in his own clip,” Twitter user @RespectableLaw wrote.
Ngo is relatively new to the media scene. He is known for videos of political clashes in the streets of Portland and for a recent attack by an antifa supporter on June 29, which reportedly sent Ngo to the hospital.
Some Twitter users–like Charlotte Clymer, the communications director for the Human Rights Campaign–have said that Ngo purposely instigates fights with left-wing protesters in order to get publicity.
“Violence is completely wrong … but I’m also not going to pretend that this wasn’t Ngo’s goal from the start,” Clymer tweeted.
https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1145218933106126848
Update 7:37am CT, Aug 27: On Monday, Aug. 26, several reporters noticed Andy Ngo was no longer listed on Quillette’s website as an editor and that Ngo removed Quillette from his bio.
Many speculated it was a result of the videos of Ngo with Patriot Prayer.
Quilllette founder Claire Lehmann denied that was the case, however, saying Ngo’s exit from the site had been long planned.
READ MORE:
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a Canadian web publication called The Post Millennial is gaining traction among far-right American audiences. It has all the dressings of a standard news website?—a sleek interface, a masthead, a ?prominently displayed code of ethics—but the content, following themes popular among far-right audiences, strays far from what any standard news site would produce.
The Post Millennial was founded in 2017 by ?Canadians Matthew Azrieli, the grandson of billionaire real estate mogul David J. Azrieli, and entrepreneur Seyed Ali Taghva, who left the publication under uncertain circumstances this summer. Despite lacking experience working at or operating news organizations, the duo sought to create a scrappy outlet that could compete with major news sources, pitching itself to potential readers as “Your Reasonable Alternative.” Three founding staff leaders are also associated with a now-defunct outlet called The Nectarine, according to ?Canadian news site CANADALAND.
Many of the articles published on The Post Millennial are comprised of aggregated content from press releases, social media posts?, and the very news sources the site claims it wants to be challenging. Few articles contain additional reporting? and are titled with inflammatory headlines following the themes of far-right social media rage bait. The Post Millennial regularly publishes attacks on journalists, defenses of? President Donald Trump? from his leading sycophants, and inflammatory smears toward causes the modern far-right movement perceives as anathema, like racial justice, LGBTQ equality, and anti-fascism. The site’s coverage mixes its far-right outrage ?fuel with articles that read like sponsored content, like a July article that celebrated the return of an ice cream promotion at McDonalds.
The outlet’s masthead carries a skeleton crew of conservative media writers; the outlet states that it relies on contributors and freelance writers for “a significant amount of the site’s content.” The outlet is home to right-wing propagandist Andy Ngo, who rose to fame in conservative audience?s fear-mongering about Muslims and later anti-fascist street demonstrators.Libby Emmons, senior editor at The Post Millennial, recently appeared on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s primetime television program to attack ?school districts ?in the United States for teaching children about systemic racism and the role it played in ?the country’?s? founding. President Donald Trump has retweeted employees at The Post Millennial, including Ngo and contributing editor Ian Miles Cheong.
Although The Post Millennial is headquartered in Canada, web analytical tools SimilarWeb and Alexa accessed September 2020 indicate? that most of the outlet’s web traffic is U.S.-sourced. At the time of publication, The Post Millennial carried about 76,400 followers on Facebook, 46,300 on Twitter, 12,600 on Instagram, and 11,300 on YouTube. Despite its modest digital following for a news outlet, the content on its website has been increasingly shared by far-right actors in the United States.
[graf: Google searches for The Post Millennial spiked in the summer of 2020, according to Google Trends. (Screenshot / Google)]
The site is rooted among a crop of similar right-wing Canadian outlets that have injected themselves in American politics, such as the far-right outlet Rebel Media, and far-right Canadian ?commentators who have transplanted themselves into American political discourse, like Lauren Southern, Gavin McInnes, and Stefan Molyneux.
Emails and Twitter direct messages requesting interviews with nine current and former staff at The Post Millennial went unanswered at the time of publication.
The Post Millennial Mixes With the Far-Right
The Post Millennial’s crossover with the far-right ?began shortly after its founding. An early hire at the outlet was editor Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, who? brought with him a resume that? included stints at Free Bird Media and Russia Insider—websites that publish racist and pro-Kremlin propaganda?—Canada’s National Observer reported ?in 2019.
Confronted with National Observer’s original reporting? on the hire,? Azrieli declined to tell the paper how the decision to hire Dzsurdzsa was made and chalked up ?the paper’s reporting on Dzsurdzsa’s prior employment as “claims of guilt by association that are spurious at best and defamatory at worst.” Taghva echoed that sentiment, calling the reporting “gross and unworthy of publication.” About a month after National Observer published its findings, The Post Millennial parted ways with Dzsurdzsa and told National Observer that Dzsurdzsa had worked for the site as a copy editor. Dzsurdza’s current Twitter bio begs to differ—he lists himself as a former senior editor for The Post Millennial. According to archives, Dzsurdza published 559 articles for the website? in about a year.
CANADALAND? reported in 2018 that columnist Barbara Kay started an article for The Post Millennial with a quote from Holocaust denier Kevin Alfred Strom that appeared in an anti-Semitic context and ?that Kay falsely attributed? to Voltaire. Weeks after an employee was notified of the mistake, editors at the site removed the article. The Post Millennial claimed that it took weeks to remove a Holocaust denier’s quote because the person who was originally notified had left for a vacation without notifying editors of the mistake.
And last year, The Post Millennial hired right-wing writer Andy Ngo as an editor-at-large after Ngo was embroiled in a scandal? in the U.S. A Portland Mercury investigation last year revealed that Ngo’s chummy relationship with far-right protest group Patriot Prayer included a video of Ngo appearing to listen to Patriot Prayer members plan a violent clash at a bar, which he omitted from his coverage and made no effort to stop.
Shortly after the Portland Mercury’s reporting, Ngo’s former employer, online magazine Quillette, removed Ngo from its masthead. Later that year, Ngo joined The Post Millennial as editor-at-large, where he has ?since published 18 articles. Ngo is by far the outlet’s highest profile figure in American media, having appeared on Fox News and testified before the U.S. Congress.
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In Lenihan’s ?column for The Post Millennial, the outlet allowed him to falsely claim that his online history “was never racist, aimed at immigrants, women or religious minorities” and to make numerous dubious claims about journalists who exposed his history. (Disclosure: This writer requested a correction from The Post Millennial after the outlet allowed Lenihan and other authors to publish multiple false statements and characterizations about his work without attempting to seek comment or verify the statements. The Post Millennial refused to correct even basic factual inaccuracies.)}:
LGBTQ issues are a frequent topic on The Post Millennial,and the coverage carries a tone that is ?hostile toward transgender people. One such article, published by Ngo in July, is titled: “Trans woman who boasts of having ‘female penis’ arrested at Portland Antifa riot.” The article includes images of the individual that appear to show them pre-transition and uses the individual’s dead name. The article hyper-focuses on the individual’s gender identity, although it provides no explanation for why the publication considers it relevant to the person’s arrest.
A Plagiarized Statement of Principles That Appears to Be Rarely Followed
CBC/Radio-Canada reported in 2019 that The Post Millennial had published a journalistic ethics policy in late 2018 that ?appears to be derived from the ethics statements of mainstream outlets?. “Approximately 75 per cent of the language in the policy is identical to declarations of principles from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail and Torstar publications,” CBC/Radio-Canada found.
Although The Post Millennial’s policy now includes a sentence with a hyperlink directing to The Washington Post’s own stated policy, the standards laid out still closely resemble those at most major news organizations. Regarding fact-checking, it states that reporters are primarily responsible and that all articles are “put through a rigorous multi-level review process that involves multiple editors.” The Post Millennial states that its reporters are expected to “offer rights of reply to key subjects before publication” in order to allow subjects to clarify their views, statements?, or public image and that “articles must document the efforts taken to contact them when they decide or are unable to reply.” It states that its reporters mu?st be “forward with their identity and disclose their status as journalists while functioning in an investigative role” unless operating in a country that is aggressive or violent toward reporters.
But whatever agreement exists is almost immediately undercut by the fact that a senior editor at The Post Millennial has worked under a pseudonym for no discernable reason. The writer using the pen name “Barrett Wilson” has made a small niche for himself in right-wing media by claiming to be a “former social justice warrior” who experienced an epiphany that made him conservative—but without a name or details, there is simply no way to verify anything he claims about himself. The editor calling himself Wilson has published more than 300 articles at The Post Millennial under his pen name.
Regarding fact-checking, The Post Millennial also appears to neglect its own stated standards. The outlet is one of several conservative outlets that The Daily Beast reported were duped into publishing material produced by a Middle Eastern propaganda campaign. A closer look at The Post Millennial’s ensnarement by PressProgress in July found that the article it published, an opinion piece regarding anti-government protesters in Iraq, was attributed to Joseph Labba—a computer-generated persona. ?Following this reporting, The Post Millennial yanked Labba’s author profile off its site ?but said it would repost the article with a staff byline. As PressProgress reported, a close look at Labba’s author photo reveals indicators the image was computer generated.
Several stories published at The Post Millennial cite unreliable sources to support its claims and some articles contain just a single source to support its claims. In July, The Post Millennial contributor Cheong recycled a false claim originating from a QAnon conspiracy theorist about a slain Black Lives Matter supporter in Austin, Texas, who was shot and killed at a protest. The Post Millennial ran an article falsely claiming that the killed BLM supporter had fired a gun first, primarily supported by Cheong’s inaccurate tweets—one of which was shared by President Trump. The site later issued a correction but reportedly stuck by its framing?, insinuating the person who had been shot was to blame for his death.
The Post Millennial has also defended right-wing actors who have been criticized for making false and unsubstantiated claims. An article the outlet published this year backed disinform?er and far-right ?activist Jack Posobiec after The Daily Beast reported that Posobiec had falsely claimed that crates of pipe bombs were found near the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. In its attempt at a refutation, The Post Millennial failed to produce any proof that The Daily Beast’s reporting was inaccurate and that Posobiec had been telling the truth about the bombs.?
Despite The Post Millennial?’s statement that its reporters must “offer rights of reply,” the policy in action leaves much to be desired. A column published last week presented what it said was an “exclusive” story revealing that Seattle Public Schools had required its staff to attend a virtual presentation on racial equality, intersectionality, and anti-racism. The Post Millennial’s coverage accused SPS of being “more interested in indoctrination of their students towards their intersectional and divisive ideology than teaching math, science and accurate history,” and alleged that people who disagreed with the training “seemed to be shamed into silence.” Despite the outlet’s stated standards, the article made no mention of efforts to reach SPS or any mentioned staff for comment, and the article relied on anonymous sourcing in its entirety?, without conveying to the reader why anonymity was necessary.
In another incident, Portland Mercury news editor Alex Zielinski tweeted about Ngo’s presence at a ?June Portland protest?,?? where he was not forward about his identity or role as a journalist as The Post Millennial? claims it requires. Following the tweet, the outlet ran? a story attacking Zielinski, claiming that her tweet had “endangered both Ngo and those around him.” Zielinski said that she was asked for comment on the stories about her, but that the requests were atypical of standard requests. She provided RWW a screenshot of one such request from Mia Cathell, a writer at The Post Millennial.
Mia Cathell, a writer at The Post Millennial, sent this inquiry to Portland Mercury news director Alex Zielinski.
“The questions were always very much like ‘Do you have a response to us thinking that you’re doing a bad job?’” Zielinski said. “It was very accusatory. … It was more like, ‘We’re coming after you, what do you have to say about that?’”
Murky Ties to Conservative Political Campaigns Raise Ethical Concerns
Even as The Post Millennial ?grows its readership?and influence, the inner workings of the outlet remain ?murky. A 2019 CBC/Radio-Canadainvestigation found that the outlet suffered from “poor transparency” surrounding its ties to conservative political campaigns and “unanswered questions about its journalistic standards and funding model.”
Jeff Ballingall, founder of the right-wing political advocacy group Ontario Proud, was brought on as The Post Millennial’s chief marketing officer in May 2019, raising questions about the outlet’s ties to Canadian conservative political campaigns. Earlier this year, The Globe and Mail reported thatConservative Party of Canadaleadership candidate Peter MacKay and his lawyer issued a legal notice against The Post Millennial alleging the outlet had published an article that was defamatory and provided an “entirely false and misleading impression to any reader” regarding MacKay’s campaign.
The notice also stated that The Post Millennial failed to disclose in its article that Ballingall was working for MacKay’s then-political opponent Erin O’Toole. After O’Toole’s election win in August, co-founder Taghva tweeted that it was a “huge night” for Ballingall, who he said “effectively led the O’Toole digital campaign.”
Additionally, BuzzFeed News reported last year that a then-employee for ?The Post Millennial was behind a collection of Facebook pages promoting conservative politicians and attacking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, often linking to stories published on The Post Millennial. ?
When Ballingall became its chief marketing officer, his hiring announcement reportedly stated that the site had received money from undisclosed “private investors.” Azrieli says none of his ?billionaire family’s money is invested in the website, according to the Ryerson Review of Journalism, but the outlet’s investors remain unknown.
National NewsMedia Council Weighs In
RWW spoke to representatives of National NewsMedia Council, a voluntary self-regulatory organization that acts as an independent third-party between reader complaints and news outlets in Canada?, via conference call. NNMC is funded by its more than 500 member organizations, ranging from major papers to local digital outlets, to act in a hybrid role of public editor and press council, offer?ing judg?ments regarding journalistic standards and ethics. News organizations are typically invited to join NNMC, and some apply directly. NNMC ?Executive? Director Pat Perkel said that The Post Millennial is not a member.
“We would neither invite The Post Millennial? nor have they expressed any interest in joining,” Perkel said. “One of the things we ask is that our potential members have a code of practice? or standard of practice or code of ethics that they adhere to, that they make that available to their readers so that their readers can find out what they are doing, and that they adhere to our complaints handling process. Those are pretty big hurdles for some people—The Post Millennial, for one.”
NNMC said it received two complaints about The Post Millennial pertaining to accuracy in 2019 and no complaints in 2020. Since The Post Millennial is not an NNMC member, the organization is unable to ?accept the complaint.
Brent Jolly, director of communications, research, and community management with the NNMC, told RWW that credibility is the currency of news organizations, and that public trust in journalism “has been eroded significantly by organizations that have begun to mimic journalism in order to espouse a larger social-political belief.”
“It’s one thing to post a code of ethics on a web page or run it in a manual or something like that, but it’s something completely different to actually internalize it and ensure it’s part of your DNA,” Jolly said. “I think very much this is a case where that connection may not be as strong as it in is other trusted news organizations.”
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the Post Millennial, a right-wing Canadian news site gaining fans among the U.S. far-right, has a strange degree of closeness with far-right propagandist and One America News Network figure Jack Posobiec, who the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch reports built his modern-day career by collaborating with “white supremacists, neo-fascists and anti-Semites.”
Posobiec is among The Post Millennial’s biggest fans on Twitter. Since Posobiec first shared a link to a story published on The Post Millennial to his Twitter account on March 21, 2019, he has posted approximately 450 additional links to stories on the outlet’s site. By contrast, Posobiec has shared OANN links 54 times since July 2018. These counts do not include instances where Posobiec retweeted stories.
“Outstanding original journalism and commentary,” Posobiec wrote of The Post Millennial in September 2019. “One of the best and most straightforward new sites out there. Ton of respect for their work.”
It appears the affection is mutual. Google search results turned up more than 130 articles published on The Post Millennial in which Posobiec is mentioned by name, including instances where he is mentioned directly or his posts on Twitter are cited as source material in news articles. The outlet has also come to Posobiec’s defense when Posobiec has faced criticism for false reporting.
The Daily Beast reported in June that Posobiec had falsely claimed in a viral tweet that crates of pipe bombs were found near the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. as chaotic anti-racism protests rocked the nation’s capital city. The Post Millennial published an article claiming that The Daily Beast had bungled it story, but in its attempt at a refutation, it failed to produce proof that the reporting was inaccurate and that Posobiec had been telling the truth about the supposed pipe bombs. Rather, it allowed Posobiec to claim that an unnamed government agency not reached for comment by The Daily Beast had discovered the bombs. To date, no hard proof supporting this claim has been publicly produced.
In another article, The Post Millennial attacked CNN anchor Jake Tapper for drawing attention to words in a graphic shared to Twitter by Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson. The graphic pitted CNN Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter against Posobiec, stating that Stelter had “dubious loyalty” compared to Posobiec, who the graphic presented as being a “Devout Christian.” The comparison echoes centuries-old anti-Semitic tropes that allege Jewish people are only loyal to their religion, not the countries they reside in. Stelter is not Jewish, but far-right extremists have repeatedly claimed that he is while directing hate toward him. The Post Millennial accused Tapper of attacking Posobiec “for being Christian.”
During the rollout of an SPLC investigative reporting series on Posobiec’s connections to extremist figures, The Post Millennial published multiple articles defending Posobiec’s character and attacking the SPLC. One article claimed that the SPLC’s reporting was “filled with guilt by association smears” and highlighted Jewish right-wing figures who said they stood by Posobiec. Another story sought to smear SPLC’s current president for posing for a photograph in 2016 with celebrity Nick Cannon, who this summer lost his contract with ViacomCBS after making hateful and anti-Semitic remarks on a podcast.
SPLC senior investigative reporter Michael E. Hayden told RWW that one such story was published by The Post Millennial after he reached out to Posobiec for comment regarding a photograph showing him at a “We Build the Wall” event alongside Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son. Hayden said that about one hour before his own article went live, The Post Millennial published its story on SPLC’s president being photographed with Cannon, which cites Posobiec as its primary source. Posobiec then tweeted the link to The Post Millennial’s story while his connections to Donald Trump Jr. were discussed online in wake of the SPLC’s story.
RWW emailed Posobiec to inquire about his relationship with The Post Millennial, asking if he had a working relationship with the site, and if so, whether the connection was similar to the one he had to the congressional campaign of YouTube personality Joey “Salads” Saladino. According to FEC documents reported by The Daily Dot in 2019, Saladino’s campaign paid Posobiec hundreds of dollars for social media advertising.
Regarding The Post Millennial, Posobiec replied: “I just follow them on Twitter, read their stuff.” Posobiec told RWW he does not receive financial compensation from sharing links to content published at The Post Millennial nor does he have a formal relationship with the outlet.
The Post Millennial did not respond to interview requests sent via email. Current and former editorial staff did not respond to attempts to make contact via email and Twitter direct message.
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