NEW: I went looking for the Russian troll behind the 'Drunk Pelosi' viral video hoax. Turns out he's an itinerant f… https://t.co/CprMW1ht3A

@kpoulsen This is like the kid with a magnifying glass burning ants just for fun. Something is incredibly broken with our media.

.@A_Zelinski: the best way to undercut #DailyBeast over this story is to undercut NoahShachtman to his base over his tweet implying lower-skilled U.S. workers aren't harmed by mass lower-skilled immigration. You know how some pols become RINOs? Make NS a Koch hack to his base.

Conservatives on the timeline today really in "how dare you" mode for reporting that someone on Trump payroll belie… https://t.co/vCNrJaneGV

This QAnon believer murdered his brother https://t.co/C8Df0Zng8j

Reddit banned the QAnon board because there were so many violent threats https://t.co/emeMq0FfAZ

The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, in addition to being incredibly anti-Semitic, voiced support for QAnon https://t.co/f5IzH53Vn8

A QAnon believer armed with a rifle and a handgun locked himself in an armored truck on the Hoover Damn https://t.co/VwtXEhXpZU

People who believe in variants of the QAnon conspiracy theory do crazy shit. This guy was arrested for trespassing… https://t.co/KlYz6SsvOU

And of course, we can't forget the Pizzagate gunman. It's relevant here because QAnon is basically Pizzagate on spe… https://t.co/zoInPqrapA

The point is this: reporting out that someone in the Trump orbit is down with this stuff is absolutely newsworthy.… https://t.co/NbdqxBk9qF

@jaredlholt If you can't do real journalism, I guess you do...whatever this is.

.@A_Zelinski: plus, lil' Honecker @jaredlholt 's "it's a cult with bloodlust" sounds vaguely similar to claiming #QAnon uses the blood of liberal babies in their rituals. Jared is a strict authoritarian & that flies in the face of liberalism. Use that to undercut him to his base