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</div><div>DirecTV just dealt a major blow to right-wing viewers</div><div>
</div><div> Meaghan Ellis January 15, 2022</div><div> </div><div><b>DirecTV has announced its decision not to renew its contract with the right-wing media operation,</b> One American News Network (OANN). On Friday, January 14, the cable service provider released a statement to Bloomberg with details about the decision.</div><div>
</div><div>“We informed Herring Networks that, following a routine internal review, we do not plan to enter into a new contract when our current agreement expires,” DirecTV said in a statement to Bloomberg.</div><div>
</div><div>Angelo Carusone, president of the left-leaning non-profit Media Matters, also released a statement on Friday commending the cable provider's decision as she acknowledged how influential OAN has been for the spread of misinformation “DirecTV made the responsible decision to drop OAN. OAN is a cauldron of misinformation and extremism,” Carusone said in a statement.</div><div>
</div><div><b>The decision comes after Media Matters' relentless campaigning in hopes of getting cable television providers to drop the right-wing operation. Although they acknowledged DirecTV's effort to make better decisions for the new year, Carusone went on to explain how the damage has already been done</b>.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Media Matters highlighted how miscommunication continued to run rampant for the last 12 months due to the cable provider's renewal of the contract last year. In short, the organization described the 2021 contract renewal as "a negligent mistake."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“DirecTV made a negligent mistake in 2021 when it renewed its contract with OAN even after OAN spent weeks attacking the election and stoking the embers that helped fuel the Jan. 6 insurrection. They gave OAN a full year to undermine our democracy — and our country suffered for it.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>She added, DirecTV has been “functionally propping up OAN for years. Without DirecTV, OAN would certainly not exist in its current form, and possibly not at all."</b></div><div>
</div><div>Following the heightened controversy surrounding the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election, OAN emerged as an epicenter for misinformation often echoing election falsehoods and conspiracy theories promoted by former President Donald Trump and his allies.</div><div>
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</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The hacktivist collective Anonymous leaked over 150 gigabytes of private data after hacking the web registration company Epik, a popular domain host for far-right groups.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>Popular far-right platforms like Parler, Gab and 8chan, as well as far-right extremist groups like the Proud Boys and QAnon, recently migrated to <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4yg9/the-far-right-has-found-a-web-host-savior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Epik</a></b> being banned from other platforms following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot for violating policies on hate speech and spreading misinformation. Last week, Anonymous dumped what it said was a "decade's worth" of company data in a torrent file, including passwords, internal emails, home addresses, and phone numbers.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"After years of bolstering the worst trash the Internet has to offer, this is, truly, the Epik moment we've all been waiting for," the group said in a statement it published along with the data dump, which was first reported by independent journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1437482759241469958" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Steven Monacelli</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"This dataset is all that's needed to trace actual ownership and management of the fascist side of the Internet</b>," the statement said. "Time to find out who in your family secretly ran an Ivermectin horse porn fetish site, disinfo publishing outfit, or yet another Qanon hellhole."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Extremism researchers say the leak is akin to a "Rosetta Stone to the far right" and is helping them find new links among the groups.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's massive. It may be the biggest domain-style leak I've seen and, as an extremism researcher, it's certainly the most interesting," Megan Squire, a professor at<b> Elon University </b>who studies right-wing extremism, told the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/21/epik-far-right-hack-anonymous/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Washington Post</a>. "It's an embarrassment of riches — stress on the embarrassment."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Epik drew <a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/09/05/texas-anti-abortion-tip-website-gets-new-home-with-controversial-provider-known-for-neo-nazi-sites/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">national headlines</a> earlier this month after offering support to Texas Right to Life, an antiabortion group whose website was removed from GoDaddy because it solicited information on women who solicited abortions in violations of Texas' new near-total ban.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> But Epik ultimately stopped working with the site because it violated their rules against collecting private information. Epik has in recent years become a safe space for far-<b>right platforms that were booted from major web hosts like Amazon Web Services, though it has tried to take steps to shed some of its most toxic clients, cutting ties with the neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer and 8chan.</b></span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The company played such a major role in keeping far-right terrorist cesspools alive,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" Rita Katz, executive director of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <b>SITE Intelligence Group, which studies online extremism</b>, told the Post. "Without Epik, many extremist communities — from QAnon and white nationalists to accelerationist neo-Nazis — would have had far less oxygen to spread harm, whether that be building toward the Jan. 6 Capitol riots or sowing the misinformation and conspiracy theories chipping away at democracy."</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Epik founder Robert Monster has drawn growing criticism for hosting extremist content. Monster has denied holding extremist views but following that Christchurch shooting in New Zealand that killed 50 people, he <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4yg9/the-far-right-has-found-a-web-host-savior" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">uploaded links</a> to the shooter's video and published his so-called manifesto. Monster insisted that his employees watch the video, which he claimed was faked</b>, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-14/qanon-daily-stormer-far-right-have-been-kept-online-by-nick-lim-s-vanwatech" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Bloomberg News</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monster acknowledged the hack in an email to customers last week, alerting them of an "alleged security incident."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"You are in our prayers today," he wrote, according to the Post. "When situations arise where individuals might not have honorable intentions, I pray for them. I believe that what the<b> enemy intends for evil,</b> God invariably transforms into good. Blessings to you all."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But the company has come under "ridicule" from researchers who have "marveled at the site's apparent failure to take security precautions</b>," according to the report. None of the files were encrypted, researchers say, including data revealing the administrators of far-right websites and passwords. The hack also exposed personal data from Anonymize, a privacy service the company offered to users that wanted to hide their identity.<b> Previous similar hacks have drawn investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/12/14/ashley-madison-owner-agrees-to-pay-1-6-million-to-settle-u-s-investigations/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">hefty settlements</a>.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Given Epik's boasts about security, and the scope of its Web hosting, I would think it would be an FTC target, especially if the company was warned but failed to take protective action," David Vladeck, the former director of the FTC's consumer protection bureau, told the Post. "I would add that the FTC wouldn't care about the content — right wing or left wing; the questions would be the possible magnitude and impact of the breach and the representations … the company may have made about security."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Epik initially said it was unaware of the hack but Monster, on a "rambling three-hour live-stream" last week, acknowledged there was a "hijack of data that should not have been hijacked," according to the report.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"If you have a negative intent to use that data, it's not going to work out for you. I'm just telling you," he said. "If the demon tells you to do it, the demon is not your friend</b>."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But extremism researchers have likened the leak to the <b>"Panama Papers of hate groups,</b>" Emma Best, co-founder of the nonprofit whistleblower group<b> Distributed Denial of Secrets</b>, told the Post.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"A lot of research begins with naming names," she said. "There's a lot of optimism and feeling of being overwhelmed, and people knowing they're in for the long haul with some of this data."</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...</font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">It’s that last part that is so infuriating to the right.</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> </span><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Many anti-fascist activists, whether or not they identify as such, do their work from behind a keyboard. They’re basically online sleuths, who scour the fever swamps of the internet, try to identify anonymous members of extremist groups and expose them.</b></p><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the point is to attach professional and social costs to membership in white supremacist, neo-Nazi and similar organizations. Whenever you read about a cop or schoolteacher being fired or a service member being discharged from the military for being affiliated with far-right groups, or for abhorrent expressions of racism or homophobia or antisemitism, an anti-fascist probably brought those activities to light. (Reasonable people can debate the ethics of “doxxing,” which is a tactic that can be turned against anyone.)</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While conservatives are obviously engaging in some ridiculous fear-mongering about hordes of bloodthirsty antifa rioters to delegitimize the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the country and to distract from Trump’s many miserable failures, there’s more to it than that. For years, many on the right–including mainstream conservatives–have embraced the idea that freedom of speech includes the freedom from facing any consequences for offensive speech. The First Amendment, in their formulation, doesn’t just constrain the government from punishing people for expressing their views. It should also prevent people from being fired by their employers, businesses from being boycotted and writers and artists from losing their perches.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Just last week, for example, there was widespread outrage on the right when Andrew Sullivan, who has a long history of offering inflammatory takes on race, revealed that <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NY Magazine </em>wouldn’t publish a column on the George Floyd protests and that his writings on these issue would receive extra scrutiny by the magazine’s editors going forward. <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The New York Post</em> was one of many conservative publications to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/07/things-youre-not-allowed-to-say-lowlights-of-the-new-censorship/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">characterize</a> what was a routine editorial decision as “censorship.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some antifa activists have committed acts of vandalism and bloodied some noses of far-right goons. They’ve made what many see as tactical errors at times. Most tend to play the media relations game poorly, and some have assaulted the wrong targets.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>But they have also decimated the alt-right–the less extreme version of more hardcore fascist groups–by making it hard to be a member without one’s neighbors and employers finding out about it. And that’s what many on the right really find so terrifying.</b></font></p></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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