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   1/ MICE Media, which now appears to be defunct, was founded and run by Bryn Davis – an American technology entrepreneur, avid Donald Trump supporter, and 2020 Presidential Election conspiracy theorist.
   More than a decade earlier, in October 2009, shortly after winning his seat in the European Parliament, Messerschmidt spoke at a Washington D.C. event – the International Legal Conference on Freedom of Speech and Religion – which was co-sponsored by the International Free Press Society (IFPS),

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     3/ By 2015, anti-fascism charity Hope Not Hate found alarming evidence that the Gates of Vienna blog was linked to a far-right plot to exhibit inflammatory cartoons about the Prophet Muhammed to “incite a violent backlash from British Muslims, leading to serious disorder between Muslim and non-Muslim communities”.

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     2/ After convicted neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people in Norway, the Gates of Vienna blog turned out to be one of his chief inspirations – having been cited 86 times in his ‘manifesto’.
     https://bylinetimes.com/2024/08/08/exposing-the-real-uk-race-riot-instigators-the-key-players-and-transatlantic-network-around-tommy-robinson/

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     6/Yet, after her return to Moscow, Byrne continued to maintain a strong relationship with [Maria] Butina – including financing her pro-Putin political campaigning in the State Duma to the tune of tens of millions of rubles. Butina later wrote the preface to Byrne’s book, Danger Close, published in February 2024, while Flynn wrote the book’s foreword.

     In addition to ties with US insurrectionists, Tommy Robinson has also cultivated his own direct ties within Russia.

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     5/Byrne is an American multi-millionaire and former CEO of online retailer Overstock.com. He is also a prominent 2020 US Presidential Election denier, who launched the American Project with Trump’s disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in April 2021 – which Byrne has used to provide extensive funding for far-right groups promoting election conspiracy theories in Arizona, Michigan, and beyond

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     4/ It provided a link to a fundraising campaign hosted by GiveSendGo – a Christian crowdfunding website operating as a hub for far-right fundraising, including QAnon supporters and rioters who attacked the US Capitol on January 6. 

     The ‘alt-tech’ site has raised more than $6.2 million for extremist causes since 2016.