Antifa ‘journalist’ accused of predatory behavior by women; expressed racist, antisemitic views and called for murders

A Los Angeles-based self-identified Antifa member turned self-identified journalist who has been attempting to close down The Post Millennial is revealed to have a historical past of racism, anti-Semitism, incitement to violence and is the topic of on-going accusations of harassing and threatening behavior in court docket filings. Additionally, left-wing activist ladies have accused the militant leftist of predatory behavior.

Chad Loder, a well-to-do 45-year-old white male from Redondo Beach, Calif. with an expert profession in digital safety, has spearheaded a scorched-earth marketing campaign to focus on this journalist and advertisers on TPM after I tweeted out in September that he was served a short lived protecting order from an individual who accused him of repeated threatening behavior. (Loder denies the accusation in his court docket submitting and his authorized group is attempting to get the restraining order dismissed based mostly on free speech grounds.)

Loder champions himself as a self-styled “Antifa leader” as a consequence of his massive social media following and his viral promotion of violent direct actions in southern California. He has additionally supplied directions to comrades on the place to throw firebombs. He boasts over 100,000 zealous followers, principally those that are militantly far-left. Using his military of on-line trolls, he tries to get targets fired, harassed and deplatformed. He has admitted to compiling “dossiers” containing private details about his targets.

On Sept. 9, Loder tagged VPN firm SurfShark in a tweet with a false accusation: “Hey @surfshark, why do you run ads on a site run by Andy Ngo? He works with Proud Boys and Capitol rioters to target journalists with death threats.”
Loder didn’t present proof for his declare and shortly deleted his authentic tweet after Surf Shark responded by saying it was “speechless” and would stop promoting on TPM. Following the success of his tweet, Loder tagged different firms that publicize on TPM utilizing the identical technique.

Corporations are notoriously risk-averse and would slightly sever small enterprise ties than spend the sources and time to research on-line accusations, whether or not spurious or correct. Partisan political operatives and political activists like Loder have exploited this to go after small conservative web sites and companies all the best way as much as company big Fox News.

Throughout September and October, Loder tagged greater than a dozen advertisers and advert networks with variations of false accusations that this journalist is concerned in a legal conspiracy to kill him and his household and that TPM is a neo-Nazi web site. Loder has not supplied proof for his claims nor has he reported this journalist to native police. (Filing a false police report is against the law.)

Loder’s newest disinformation marketing campaign follows a historical past of him spreading falsehoods about this journalist. In early August, Loder accused me of assaulting folks at an Oregon demonstration. I used to be not within the U.S. on the time. “Andy panicked and bear sprayed his own Proud Boy buddies because he was too scared to get close,” Loder falsely claimed.

Attack on the Free Press

Loder is working together with self-described Antifa activist Nandini Jammi to focus on advertisers on TPM. Jammi based and runs the group, Check My Ads Institute, which says it fights disinformation however in follow seeks to financially hurt conservative information websites that problem left-wing or liberal orthodoxy. Jammi targets their advertisers with spurious claims their model is showing on neo-Nazi web sites. Jammi has handed data to the New York City cell of Antifa and tweeted final yr, “Antifa isn’t a dirty word. It’s an effort we all need to be part of right now.” In addition to TPM, Jammi has tried to financially harm information websites Daily Wire and Daily Caller.

“@kargo appears to have dropped The Post Millennial, a disinformation outlet run by Andy Ngo, a violent and Islamophobic right-wing extremist,” Jammi tweeted in August together with a photograph of this journalist bleeding from an assault by Antifa. “Hard to state how dangerous this individual is.”

For months, Jammi continued to make use of Twitter to tag dozens of companies which have promoting on TPM.

In November, she tweeted to luxurious health chain, Equinox: “Did you mean for your ads to sponsor The Post Millennial (thepostmillennial(.)com), an outlet that features content by neo-Nazis and promotes transphobia?” The screenshot she posted in her tweet included a photograph of one of TPM’s writers, Ari Hoffman, who’s Orthodox Jewish. Equinox responded the next day saying it had added TPM to its “blacklist.”

“The only reason companies listen to them is because intimidation and terror work, but that doesn’t make them right,” says Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief of TPM. “We’re not going to be silenced, and neither is the half of the U.S. that is tired of being talked down to by a bunch of finger-wagging scolds.”

For weeks, Jammi solicited for what she stated had been “tax deductible” donations for her “non-profit 501(c)3 organization.” However, the group doesn’t present up on the IRS listing of tax exempt organizations. (Check My Ads Institute abruptly modified its web site just lately to now say it’s a non-profit “pending” 501(c)3 group.)

Beyond that, Check My Ads could have utilized to be a charity on false pretenses as a consequence of its documented intervention towards political candidates final yr. In August 2020, Jammi efficiently pressured knowledge analytics firm HotJar to terminate its enterprise relationship with the Republican Party and the Trump/Pence 2020 re-election marketing campaign. Check My Ads Institute at the moment has a web page detailing Jammi’s position as head of the group in harming Trump’s marketing campaign. According to U.S. federal regulation, tax-exempt organizations are prohibited from instantly or not directly intervening on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate.

Loder and Jammi retweet each other and have fun publicly at any time when they’ve success at harming TPM or different conservative websites.

Predatory Behavior and Racism

Though now seen as a social media bulldog for the left, TPM can report that Loder has a historical past of racism and extremism that he’s since tried to wash from existence. On at the least two events he’s tried to now conceal, Loder has referred to black folks he disagrees with as “buck dancers.” Buck dancing was a racist stage routine used by minstrel performers, usually in black face, in nineteenth century America.

On Sept. 29, Loder tweeted out a portrait of Jordan Dixon-Hamilton, a conservative activist and regulation pupil at Pepperdine University, with the textual content, “Imagine being so unsuccessful in life that the only move you got left is to buck dance for Nazis. Corny ass.”

This wasn’t the one occasion of Loder concentrating on a black particular person in a racist tweet. In February this yr, he tweeted out a flyer for a conservative occasion in Yucaipa, Calif. that featured a number of black audio system. “How much do you think they get paid to buck dance at a Civil War reenactment in front of a bunch of white supremacists?” Loder wrote. And in October 2020, Loder posted {a photograph} of a black conservative activist who was severely bleeding after being assaulted. “Sounds like San Francisco doesn’t like fascists coming to their city. FA/FO [F—k around, find out],” Loder tweeted.

Dixon-Hamilton says Loder’s racism is predictable.

“[White leftists] pretend to care and fight for us, but the second a black person questions the narrative, they throw racist attacks our way.”

Loder also has a history of expressing particular disdain for Israel using anti-Semitic tropes where Jews are compared to Nazis and genocidaires. In May, Loder called Israel a “white supremacist state” supported by white supremacists. He additionally referred to a gaggle of Jewish folks holding an Israeli flag in Los Angeles as “zionist fascists.”  The following month, he tweeted that “zionism is violent settler colonialism.” In response to California state senator Melissa Melendez asking for prayers for Israel as the country was being attacked by rockets from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Loder tweeted: “We shall not forget that you support ethnic cleansing.”