A massive well-funded discrediting campaign has been started against Brittany Pettibone, a well-known member of the community. I've noticed exact themes that were then reposted on the Voat community. Sadly, a lot of this activity has occurred on YouTube which makes it difficult to give links to the specific comments.
This page is not to detail all of Pettibone's activities, but the shilling and the misinformation campaign against her
Timeline Of Accusations
January 30th, 2017:
Brittany and Nicole Pettibone start a fundraiser on GoFundMe to raise money for research and their traditionalist podcast titled Virtue of the West.
January 30th, 2017 (4:24 PM): Judd Legum, founder of the left-wing website ThinkProgress, tweets that Brittany Pettibone is a white nationalist without any evidence provided. It would be very important to note that ThinkProgress has significant links to Center for American Progress and other left-wing organizations. Judd Legum attacking Pettibone is a powerful attack from a well-known individual, this happens as Pettibone is still relatively unknown in the community. No matter the reason, ThinkProgress and other organizations attack her intensely for unknown reasons.
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January 30th, 2017 (4:30 PM) : GoFundMe suspends fundraiser on apparent grounds of "hate speech" and "white supremacist promotion". Brittany Pettibone becomes permanently banned for using the services, with GoFundMe citing ToS violations which are never specified. It is widely interpreted as doing with the site rules on hate speech, and Pettibone starts getting linked widely to white nationalism and supremacism. Story goes viral and is covered on multiple news sites, including the Observer, which write de facto attacks against her.
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February 7th, 2017: The podcast series Virtue of the West is created, with Lauren Southern being the first guest. It would be important to note that Pettibone's podcast and Youtube channel takes off in popularity at this time. Comments remain rational and reasoned, but this is soon to change. First signs of unexplained unhinged conspiracy theories in the comments begin to emerge, along with some anti-Zionist rhetoric. At this point however these comments appear organic and not the result of shilling, manipulation, or sockpuppet accounts.
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February 14th, 2017: Brittany Pettibone interviews Tommy Robinson of the English Defense League. Comments begin to dramatically shift in tone from research, to conspiracy theories talking about Jews and aliens. Comments about how "Jews are the problem" and how Brittany Pettibone should admit that she is a "follower of the 14 words" begin to popup. Interesting to note that all of these comments seemingly came out of nowhere, and the support came 2 weeks after the articles written about her.
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February 21th, 2017: Brittany Pettibone interviews Black Pigeon Speaks on Virtue of the West #3. Attacks on Christianity begin to emerge in this period. Triple parenthesis are used against Christians as they "worship a Jew", and self-identifying Christians in the commenting sections and inboxes begin to be attacked. Significant shilling is suggested linking her work to white nationalism and anti-Christian belief by default, likely to repel a large section of her followers and poison her work from mainstream acceptance. Commentators also suggest that she "needs to stop making YouTube videos as only men can be talking about these topics" and how she needs to "go back into the kitchen and make a sandwich." Checking the accounts show that the vast majority of the commentators have no subscribers or any significant sort of interaction outside the video, which suggests a massive amount of alternative accounts.
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February 23th, 2017: Pettibone appears on an episode of InfoWars denying the allegations that she is a white nationalist or a white supremacist, and appears shocked at her support from apparent white nationalists and the accusations that she herself is a white nationalist. This also goes further into the GoFundMe case which happened a month before. On a side note, this is a critical interview about the situation as a whole to watch and I recommend you watch it. (Assuming you haven't already) On a side note, it is very interesting to note that there is no signs of a disinformation campaign in the video's comment section. This is perhaps the clearest example of manufactured white nationalist support for Pettibone, and shows how only certain videos appear to be targeted, notably on her main channel.
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February 28th, 2017: Brittany Pettibone interviews a black conservative Youtuber named Josephine. Comments from inactive accounts accuse Pettibone of allowing "dindus" on the show and express support for slavery. Concern trolling begins to ramp up dramatically, with commentators alleging that cohost Tara McCarthy is "2% Jewish" and whether Pettibone is "0.01% due to not having expected pure Aryan features". Other interesting comments include inactive accounts saying that "blacks might as well vote Democrats" and that "only white people can be conservatives", which is a shill technique to discourage support for Pettibone's activities from minorities. Looking at the commentators, it is clear that these are strawman arguments that are condemned by white nationalist leaders. (Support for slavery, etc.)
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March 2nd, 2017 : In a possible major miscalculation for Brittany Pettibone, she interviews Lana Lokteff of Red Ice Radio during an active shilling campaign against her. Lana Lokteff is a known white nationalist and is the perfect person for the media to link her to white supremacism and white nationalism, and it appears to have encouraged a mix of actual white nationalist support and more shills into her channel. A very important find from reading the comments is a user named Asteria accuses Brittany Pettibone of being a subject of MKULTRA mind control and uses the exact same reasoning as the trolling campaign on Voat. This won't be shown until the post on March 10th, 2017. Clear shills start to come out at this time, and conspiracy theories that have recently been shilled on Voat and Gab are being shilled intensely in the comments. Brittany Pettibone and Tara McCarthy are accused of being "crypto-Jews who should be sent back to Israel" and there are accusations of her being a "plant". (Sound familiar?)
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March 7th, 2017: Pettibone interviews conservative Gabber Claire Jordan. Shilling continues with comments such as "a key virtue of the West is female submission" and other obvious key indicators of a shill campaign. A key indicator that these people are not organic in the least is the fact that a Hispanic Trump supporter named Leticia Paul is surrounded by apparent "white supremacists", but never gets even a single response. Somehow and for some reason, white supremacists and Hispanic Trump supporters are existing side by side. The "white supremacists" do not even act with the real and organic Trump supporters, and it is obvious once you start reading the comments.
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March 10th, 2017: A Voat thread by an unknown user titled Something Wrong About Brittany Pettibone... suggests that Brittany Pettibone is a false narrative and shill to misguide the community. Upon closer digging of the content, I found similar themes posted by an account named Asteria. Asteria she accuses Brittany Pettibone of being a "sex kitten" and references MKULTRA. This comment is exactly similar to similar behaviors recently observed on Voat within the past day.
Due to the 10,000 character limit I am forced to conclude this thread. But there is much more evidence that this isn't organic and is traced back to the Tweet from Judd Legum on January 30th, 2017 when the shill operation became intense and noticeable.
It appears someone is really ticked off at Ms. Pettibone. The question is then, who is that person?
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meowski ago
This disinfo formula has been so over-used and abused, it's easy to identify now. Call target racist, make a zillion shill posts about the Jews and flat earth, then freeze crowdfunding accounts. Fortunately enough people are wise to it now that it tends to backfire.
Melitica ago
It may be easy to spot but it is not easy to fight. This board gets completely overun with too Many shills, bots and actual trolls. Some days it isn't worth the fight.
The fact that they clearly have financial support shows that those of us doing this for free are at a clear disadvantage. Yet when anyone says, I need help to continue and grow....sshhhhrrrreeeeeek.
meowski ago
If I get some money and time I will develop a heuristic sock puppet detection system. There's a lot that could be done with funding for a few months of development time.