The site is the brainchild of Mike Adams, the Alex Jones-aligned founder of the Natural News clickbait empire. Adams has been having something of a public meltdown
But in the meantime, Adams and the other writers at Natural News, which has 2.7 million Facebook followers, created HoggWatch.com, a website devoted to proving that Hogg is singlehandedly trying to destroy America.
The site's archive appears to be roughly a month old, and its earliest articles spread the truly insane conspiracy theory that Hogg is a "crisis actor" hired to help the federal government stage a fake massacre. Adams himself writes for the site. Since mid-February, he's penned pieces calling Hogg an "anti-gun sociopath," a "gun control fascist," the "most dangerous man in America," and a "profanity-laced, foulmouthed student who is seething with anger." Adams has written multiple stories comparing Hogg to a Nazi or a member of the Hitler Youth. Here's a sample of the insane bile from yesterday:
One meme that has also been banned, apparently, shows Hogg raising his right arm in a manner that the Nazis used to raise their arms juxtaposed next to Hitler raising his. The comparison works because it’s exact. [Editor's note: This is hilariously incorrect.]Such is the quality of discourse online in 2018: Barely six weeks after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, the pro-gun-control students who survived have been turned into demons on social media. Rather than simply saying, "We don't agree with gun-control measures, but these kids have a right to protest," thousands of internet trolls have decided to instead fight the demands of the #NeverAgain movement by comparing fellow survivor Emma Gonzalez to Fidel Castro (insane), photoshopping Hogg's face to make him look like Hitler (also insane), and even siding with mass murderer Nikolas Cruz by pretending that Gonzalez and Hogg bullied Cruz so hard that he was forced to kill people (where do we start with that one?).
Now, no one knows if young Mr. Hogg is a believer in Nazi ideology (it’s doubtful) or if the raising of his arm at the rally was intentionally provocative. But the optics are a lot truer than Trump’s “take a pledge” gesture. More than that, Trump has never advocated for anything close to what Hitler advocated for and did — to Jews, to ‘inferior’ races, and — ultimately — to the German people and his own country.
But young Mr. Hogg is advocating for policies that Hitler would have loved and that he practiced, like propaganda and gun control — hence reports like those Jones and InfoWars produced and the various memes making the comparison.
The rise of #NeverAgain has coincided with the full ascension of Breitbart and
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The collection of articles on HoggWatch seem designed to terrify