A doctor of philosophy has mapped out social interactions between 58,254 Antifa (anti-fascist) affiliated Twitter accounts and found some interesting links to journalists at prominent news outlets.
The connections were based around an "initial seed" of 16 "self-identifying and verifiable Antifa accounts."
Dr. Eoin Lenihan found a number of Twitter-verified journalists had connections to other verified accounts that were "openly self-identifying antifascist and an influential member of the Antifa movement on Twitter."
The dataset shown doesn't indicate every connection Lenihan discovered. It only shows 1.65 percent of the 58,254 verified Twitter accounts, giving a total of 962 accounts on display above.
The Guardian
Lenihan said in one of his tweets that Jason Wilson, journalist for The Guardian, wrote a news piece on an intelligence report released by the Regional Organized Crime Information Center (ROCIC). The ROCIC is one of six regional information sharing systems that assist law enforcement in 14 U.S. states with a variety of services.The report, titled "Antifa/Anti-Antifa: Fighting in the Streets," described Antifa as an alliance formed between anarchists and communists to fight fascists and white supremacists "by whatever means necessary."
It also described Antifa's opposition as "Anti-Antifa," consisting of "white supremacists, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, Ku Klux Klanners, white identity groups, and a group called the Alt-Right."
Alt-Right is short for alternative right-wing, which distinguishes itself from "traditional conservatism" or moderate ring-wing ideologies. Instead, they prefer a nation consisting of Europeans or white people that share a hostility for non-whites and Jews, according to the report.
Politico obtained this information from "confidential law enforcement documents" and interviews.
“These Antifa guys were showing up with weapons, shields, and bike helmets and just beating the [expletive] out of people," said the official. "They’re using Molotov cocktails, they’re starting fires, they’re throwing bombs and smashing windows.”
Politico reported that the Anti-Antifa members who were targeted by the attacks started responding in kind. They then brought in additional weapons and began committing unprovoked attacks of their own.
Huffington Post
Continuing down Lenihan's long chain of Tweets involving his Antifa-affiliated map, he accuses Christopher Mathias, a senior reporter at Huffington Post, of doxing military personnel under investigation.Doxing is the practice of researching and publishing an individual's private information for malicious reasons.
Lenihan said that Christopher Mathias doxed the military personnel currently under investigation due to their alleged ties to a white nationalist group. He did so before he knew whether they were innocent or guilty, according to Lenihan.
Unicorn Riot identified and published those messages as belonging to members of a white nationalist group called Identity Evropa.
Following the publishing, Mathias reported that "anti-fascist" activists scavenged those messages for clues regarding the private information of the members of Identity Evropa.
Doxers Allegedly Paid to Dox
Lenihan claims to have talked to two people who defected from a doxing group that allegedly shared messages with a Huffington Post writer. The identity of the writer was not given.Based on the above tweet, whether the individual in question is actually a Nazi or a fascist doesn't seem to affect the decision to dox.