ProPublicaJan 4, 2025

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.

He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

https://propub.li/4gF50W0

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The Militia and the Mole

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

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Show threadTimothy ClarkJan 4, 2025
@ProPublica I find it disheartening that even ProPublica uses the sanitized "Capitol riot" language that became house style everywhere within a week afterward for the specific reason of downplaying the reality of it as an auto-coup attempt. Williams wasn't outraged by a riot at the Capitol. He was outraged by an attempted coup. This is not a critique of the reporter, but of the editors.
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@tclark @ProPublica

Pro Publica has its ideological limits. It's still corporate media so it's always going to mute the narrative a bit. The quality shining under this story is more a result of Williams' undercover work.

To get the most out of this kind of reporting you need to augment it with your own common sense and political understanding. You extract the publication's bias where you can find it and fill in the gaps best you can.

Jan 4, 2025 at 9:02pmWeb