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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Unmasked: Matt Rivitz, Founder of Sleeping Giants, Behind Social Media Mobs

A Monday report revealed Matt Rivitz, a San Francisco-based ad executive, as the founder of Sleeping Giants, the anonymous leftist group that organizes social media mobs in an effort to silence conservative voices.

According to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s (DCNF) Peter Hasson, Rivitz’s identity as the until-now anonymous founder is confirmed by clues left in Rivitz’s media interviews and social media posts by people in his “social and professional circles.”

Rivitz himself long ago deleted his Twitter and Facebook accounts, as well as his professional websites.

The group’s modus operandi is consistent throughout its campaigns: use social media in cooperation with other well-funded left-wing groups like Media Matters for America and Think Progress to urge their followers to contact advertisers en masse – expressing their outrage that companies dare advertise with conservatives – until the companies relent and pull their ads. Equally consistent is their goal in organizing these social media mobs: pressure corporate America to blacklist conservative audiences.

Sleeping Giants’ first crusade was to drive Breitbart News from the web, starting in 2016.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

San Francisco. What a surprise.

Anonymous said...

Trying to impose San Francisco values on the rest of the country and a lot of low info voters fall for it.

Anonymous said...


Free Speech for he, but not for me and thee!

Brownshirt techniques updated, but the underlying desire to stifle and control others still the objective. In the footsteps of Adolf.