Courtesy of Pam Martens
Article Appearing at NAEBC.com on October 1, 2020
Yesterday, the Reuters news agency reported that a fake Russia-backed news site tied to the Internet Research Agency, the Russian group that meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, has been caught in the radar of the FBI. The website is called the Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens or NAEBC.
According to Reuters, the operation was created in June. It reposts content from right-wing websites as well as paying U.S. freelance writers to provide original content about politically-divisive issues. Reuters reports that “A network of accounts posing as editors and journalists then promoted the articles on social media sites favored by right-wing users.”
Reuters asked the social media analytics firm, Graphika, to analyze the NAEBC website. Its spokesperson said the strategy was to “energize Trump supporters, depress support for Biden, and target both sides with divisive and polarizing messages.”
We felt the NAEBC.com website might be taken down yesterday (it’s still up as of 7:00 a.m. this morning) so we took screenshots of its front page and various articles. We then researched some of the writers whose bylines appear on the website.
One name stood out: Don Boys. That’s the former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who caused an uproar last year with a blog post calling being gay a “revolting practice” and a “perversion.” Boys went on to cite a litany of stomach-churning practices that he alleges gays engage in. The thrust of the article was to denigrate then presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg, who is gay.
Boys is also the author of the 2016 book, Muslim Invasion: The Fuse Is Burning. The book describes itself like this: “Islam, Muslims, immigration, Jihad, Sharia, and the war against our civilization, culture, and creed is a present reality. Gutless public officials are selling us short either by complicity with the enemy or due to a doctrinaire commitment to idiotic tolerance ideology.”
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