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Will Sommer
@willsommer
Media reporter @washingtonpost. Author of "Trust the Plan," a book on QAnon out now. Email: will.sommer -at- https://t.co/ScXlxKhvrq.
Sep 5, 2018 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
The House hearing on Twitter's alleged discrimination against conservatives is about to start. Between House GOP anger at Jack Dorsey and Alex Jones in the audience, expect this to be a wild one. Jack Dorsey says Twitter's blue checkmark verification program "is in serious need of a reboot."
Sep 5, 2018 • 9 tweets • 1 min read
Today's congressional hearings on social media could be wild. Alex Jones claims he'll be in the front row, Laura Loomer is in DC, and Chuck Johnson — banned from Twitter — says he has something planned. Alex Jones is currently in a heated discussion with Capitol Police outside the hearing room.
Sep 5, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Jack Posobiec finally published his long-awaited debunking of QAnon, and it is wild Jack's evidence centers on an interview with notorious alt-right troll Microchip. So not exactly convincing stuff! The segment is in this thread.
Aug 6, 2018 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
MAGA-world is in a civil war over QAnon. The teams are:

Anti-Q:
Jack Posobiec
Scott Adams (The Dilbert Guy)
Kurt Schlichter
Sean Spicer
Alex Jones / Jerome Corsi
Assorted Pizzagaters and Youtube conspiracy theorists And on the Pro-Q side:
Roseanne Barr
Curt Schilling
Bill Mitchell (?)
Hollywood D-lister Isaac Kappy
This one guy named Lionel
And assorted Pizzagaters and Youtube conspiracy theorists
Jul 10, 2018 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
At the Seth Rich conspiracy theory press conference, where a masked witness is supposed to appear. Now organizer Jack Burkman sags the supposed Seth Rich witness will just call in and talk via speakerphone, rather than appearing in a disguise. Meaning it could be anyone!
Apr 26, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Diamond and Silk are claiming in their House hearing right now that they've never been paid by the Trump campaign. But the Trump campaign FEC filing disagrees! docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/… Update: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is currently explaining to Diamond and Silk that FEC filings show campaign expenditures, i.e. like the one to them. Diamond and Silk not thrilled.
Apr 7, 2018 • 29 tweets • 8 min read
I’m at today’s march for believers in the #QAnon conspiracy theory. Will post if I see anything interesting. QAnon is kind of a mega-conspiracy theories that includes Pizzagate and a whole lot of other conspiracy theories. Roseanne is really into it! Here’s an explainer on it: medium.com/@willsommer/ro…
Apr 5, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Gab just banned Paul Nehlen for doxxing a rival in the alt right. Not a lot of places for Nehlen, who's also banned from Twitter, to go at this point. Nehlen is also challenging Paul Ryan in the GOP primary, although now that he's alienated the last of his supporters in the alt right he's lost even that marginal base
Mar 1, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
YouTube just deleted InfoWars conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi's channel Corsi has been the leading promoter of the #QAnon conspiracy theory, so this is a blow for them. Background: medium.com/@willsommer/me…
Feb 7, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
How's Milo Yiannopoulos's attempt to represent himself in a lawsuit going? Oh... Basically, Milo booted his lawyer in an attempt to access Simon and Schuster document from discovery that only his lawyer could see. But alas, the judge still won't let him see the documents now that he's his own lawyer.
Jan 5, 2018 • 30 tweets • 4 min read
Ill be tweeting whatever interesting / ridiculous things catch my eye in the Wolff book. Stay tuned! So far, it’s a lot of scenes of Bannon being rude to Jared. Also: Trump demands personal recaps of Morning Joe.
Dec 27, 2017 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
MAGA world is being roiled by drama over, of all things, Scientology. You may remember singer @Joy_Villa from wearing a Trump dress to the Grammys. Since then, she’s been feted in Trump world, and even claimed on Fox that Steve Bannon wants her to run for a seat in Congress (state nuclear)
Dec 18, 2017 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
Today's the day for the purported purge of alt right / far right Twitter accounts! Stay tuned, I'll be updating we start seeing people get kicked off or lose their verified checks Twitter has previously announced that today's the day they will start kicking off users who affiliate with groups that "promote violence against civilians." We'll see!
recode.net/2017/12/17/167…
Nov 27, 2017 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
A brief history of James O'Keefe self-owns, in light of today's WaPo story 1/ 2010: James O'Keefe tries to lure a CNN contributor onto a boat stocked with dildoes, only to have his plan exposed by one of his staffers cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/…
Nov 25, 2017 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It remains crazy to me that so many national outlets hand off coverage of white extremists to random reporters, rather than making it a dedicated beat. Latest example: nytimes.com/2017/11/25/us/… This approach ends up with exactly what you see in this NYT story, and what we’ve seen since 2016 in coverage of the far right: dangerous movements that should be covered seriously treated as harmless novelties.
Sep 16, 2017 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
Checking out the pro-Trump #moar rally on the Mall. Maybe 150 ppl, some III%er militia, Proud Boys turnout Naturally, lots of speculation about who is a "secret" antifa