They were trying to push the notion that several journalists were part of Antifa and trying to get them killed by their neo nazi cult followers..
https://newrepublic.com/article/1542...-gotten-killed
But the identified journalists are very real, and very vulnerable to harassment. As Lenihan wrote in Quillette, his primary purpose in conducting this cockamamie study was to keep an eye on us. “In identifying this group of 15 journalists whose engagement with Antifa is especially intense, our goal was not to accuse them of bias out of hand, but rather to identify them for further study, so as to determine if there was any overall correlation between the level of their online engagement with Antifa and the manner by which these journalists treated Antifa in their published journalism.”
The day after it was published, the article made its way to notorious white supremacist forum Stormfront, and I soon found out what was meant by “further study.”
A few weeks after Lenihan had his big day out at Quillette, I got a message from a friend warning me about a weird video that had just popped up on YouTube. As the Columbia Journalism Review describes, the video showed “imagery of mass shooters intercut with images of the reporters mentioned by Lenihan under the heading ‘Sunset the Media.’” My face was there, next to those of a dozen other writers, activists, and friends.
A quick dig around confirmed that the user who’d made it was a fan of Atomwaffen Division, a violent neo-Nazi cell that’s been responsible for at least five murders. A quote from virulent American neo-Nazi James Mason, the author of racist manifesto Siege (which is something of a spiritual text for Atomwaffen), ended the clip.