Leftist and legacy media leapt to cast blame on the right for political violence following the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk, using absurd data from an anti-free speech researcher known for demonizing the right.
A Sept. 12 article from The Economist, as well as the BBC, The Bulwark’s Molly Jong Fast, Truthout, The Scheer Post, leftist actor George Takei and others, pushed a graph purporting to show that the right in America is responsible for far more cases of political violence than the left or Islamists. However, The Economist does not mention that Michael Loadenthal—the founder and executive director of The Prosecution Project (TPP), the organization that compiled the data—is a self-declared Antifa (domestic terrorist) member and has been exposed for his contempt of free speech and organizations on the right.