{"id":101276,"date":"2018-07-19T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=101276"},"modified":"2018-07-19T18:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:35:19","slug":"matt-rivitz-fascist-hate-group-set-up-to-smear-effective-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=101276","title":{"rendered":"MATT RIVITZ: Fascist Hate Group Set Up To Smear Effective Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<article class=\"clearfix\">\n<h2 class=\"post-title\">Matt Rivitz the Far left Founder of Fascist Hate Group Sleeping Giants Is Outed \u2014 Runs Campaigns to Smear and Bankrupt Conservative Voices<\/h2>\n<p>by Jim Hoft<br \/>\nGateway Pundit<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-rivitz-600x450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101277\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-rivitz-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-rivitz-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-rivitz-600x450-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Matt Rivitz exposed as Far Left operative behind anti-conservative hate group Sleeping Giants.<\/h3>\n<h3>Sleeping Giants has worked since the 2016 election to bankrupt conservative groups by targeting their advertisers.<\/h3>\n<p>Matt Rivitz has devoted his life to destroy and eliminate opposing voices in America but always kept his identity a secret.<br \/>\nUntil today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"thega-1352058489\" class=\"thega-content\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1493995449995-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Rivitz and his hate site Sleeping Giants smears and slanders conservatives.<br \/>\nTheir goal is to keep the internet free from conservative, patriotic voices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Matt Rivitz is also a coward.<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slpng_giants?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@slpng_giants<\/a> and Matt Rivitz harass and intimidate thousands of businesses, but as soon as they are brought into the public conversation, they go crying to Twitter for protection\u2026 By lying. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SGHjFWOvNY\">pic.twitter.com\/SGHjFWOvNY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sleeping Giants Exposed (@ExposedGiants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ExposedGiants\/status\/1019297735223078912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/g\">The Daily Caller Foundation<\/a> broke the story on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The founder of Sleeping Giants, a left-wing activist group that has targeted right-wing voices with boycott campaigns, has managed to keep his identity a secret, even as his own group has become a major political player among liberals. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>Sleeping Giants was founded by Matt Rivitz, an award-winning ad copywriter based in San Francisco, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>Following this article\u2019s publication, Rivitz confirmed that he founded Sleeping Giants.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s original stated goal was to cripple Breitbart, the pro-Trump website whose former chairman, Steve Bannon, worked in the White House as President Donald Trump\u2019s chief strategist.<\/p>\n<p>To accomplish that goal, Sleeping Giants has waged an intense campaign to pressure Breitbart\u2019s advertisers into pulling their ads from the website. It\u2019s worked pretty much as designed.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart lost 90 percent of its advertisers over the span of two months in 2017. Sleeping Giants has both maintained its pressure on Breitbart\u2019s remaining advertisers and expanded its focus.<\/p>\n<p>Sleeping Giants began pressuring investors in October 2017 in Renaissance Technologies \u2014 a successful hedge fund \u2014 to pull their investments because the company\u2019s CEO, conservative billionaire Robert Mercer, had a financial stake in Breitbart. Less than two weeks later, Mercer sold his stake in Breitbart and stepped down from the hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>Sleeping Giants also boosted Parkland student David Hogg and Media Matters\u2019 boycott of Fox News host Laura Ingraham in March over a tweet she sent about Hogg. Rivitz\u2019 group posted the name, position and email address of a Hulu vice president and encouraged its tens of thousands of followers to email her and demand that the streaming website boycott Ingraham\u2019s show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sleeping Giants, along with other far-left groups like Media Matters for America, aims to drive conservative media off the web through social media campaigns directed at their advertisers. By scaring advertisers with phony allegations of \u201chate\u201d and \u201cbigotry\u201d against conservative media, Sleeping Giants hopes to scare advertising revenue away from targeted websites. The group was founded by Matt Rivitz shortly after President Trump was elected in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>After operating for over a year in anonymity, the founder of the organization was recently outed by a Daily Caller News Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/07\/16\/sleeping-giants-founder-rivitz\/\">investigation<\/a>, which revealed the founder\u2019s identity as Matt Rivitz, a San Francisco-based ad executive. Now, Sleeping Giants is frantically demanding that Twitter, their primary social media platform, censor accounts talking about their founder.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2018\/07\/matt-rivitz-the-far-left-founder-of-fascist-hate-group-sleeping-giants-is-outed-runs-campaigns-to-smear-and-bankrupt-conservative-voices\/\">http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2018\/07\/matt-rivitz-the-far-left-founder-of-fascist-hate-group-sleeping-giants-is-outed-runs-campaigns-to-smear-and-bankrupt-conservative-voices\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}