Is this rural-looking YouTube sensation and “deradicalizer” really a federal agent?

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You may not be familiar with the YouTube personality known as the “Beau of the Fifth Column,” but he’s currently surrounded by controversy. Many are beginning to question whether this so-called “hicklib,” whose real name is Jason King, might actually be an undercover federal agent. Because? Well, “Beau” has a past that raises some eyebrows. In 2007, he was arrested and convicted of seven counts of human trafficking. Interestingly, the government allowed him to keep most of his wealth and assets – when was the last time you saw the US government treat someone with a random act of kindness?

There is a whole thread here which catalogs the strangeness surrounding “Beau”.

Here is an excerpt:

Looking for the biggest hicklib influencer and amateur leftist journalist “Beau of The Fifth Colmun” aka Justin King

Billionaire convicted of human trafficking of Eastern European women in indentured servitude, forced labor and garnishment of wages to pay debts

He uses a fake southern accent to spread things from the anarchist and libertarian left like his character “Beau of the Fifth Column”

However, the government allowed him to keep most of his wealth and assets despite being convicted of 7 felonies in 2007 and sealed the plea.

Apparently this guy also infiltrated anonymous and antifa groups as an informant now the same forces are using him to “de-radicalize” rural people.

When you see guys like that and you wonder “where did they find it?”, they are active.

Evidence in the form of screenshots is in the thread you can access here.

Here are some of the strange details surrounding “Beau,” whose real name is Justin Eric King:

The government generally doesn’t accept “love offers” unless they get something in return.

Nowadays, Beau has a fake southern accent and sounds like the typical country conservative. However, instead of promoting right-wing ideas, he is pushing left-libertarian and anarchist views under his alter ego “Beau of the Fifth Column.”

This is where it gets even weirder. Recently, there was an article in the LA Times that revealed how Big Tech was trying to find new ways to “curb” right-wing extremism using a “bait and switch” plan. Sounds more like the FBI doesn’t it?

The idea is for the guys to grow beards and wear trucker hats and talk in exaggerated southern accents about how rural they are and how much they like guns. You’re nodding and listening, and before you know it, “hicklib” starts talking about how they support “common sense gun reform” and transgender children and the fight for Ukraine and socialism democratic

LA Times:

The idea started as a bait-and-switch: giving people who searched online for terms like “join Oath Keepers” or “bomb instructions” some content that appeared to fit their request but offered an alternative to extremism.
The method, developed by Moonshot CVE, is called “Redirection”. Through partnerships with Google and the Anti-Defamation League, the British firm aims to dissuade users from pursuing conspiracies and violent rhetoric by luring them with ads elsewhere.

It’s just one of dozens of ideas tech companies are experimenting with as, in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol uprising, they come under increasing pressure to prevent the spread of extremism in their platforms In an effort to fend off federal regulation, California’s Internet giants have repeatedly insisted they are working to fix the problem. The flow of dangerous content continues to proliferate.

And in an internet figure known as Beau of the Fifth Column, Moonshot thought he had found the perfect person to redirect users online.

Are we really supposed to believe that they randomly picked Beau as the ideal online influencer to target right-wing white boys, and then just started questioning his true identity? That sounds pretty unlikely, especially if Beau was already involved in some secret scheme. The LA Times article seems like a smokescreen, aimed at dispelling anyone who is skeptical about who Beau might be working for.

Keep on:

Broadcasting under a bare bulb from a shed full of camping gear, Beau came across as a Southern gun owner with progressive views. He had a calming demeanor, an unkempt beard, a military aura and a huge YouTube following.

But Beau, whose real name is Justin King, also had a history of supporting anarchism and making statements that many find anti-Semitic. He is a criminal.

The fiasco over the Moonshot redirect experiment came to a head last week in Washington, when federal lawmakers grilled the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google about extremism and disinformation.

“They sent people who were already looking for violence to a convicted felon with anarchist and anti-Semitic views,” Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) told Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, during a hearing in the House .

“It raises one of the key questions about moderating online platforms,” ​​Griffith said afterward. “Who is investigating veterans? We continue to need more transparency and accountability.”

Critics say the underlying problem is that Internet companies don’t want regulators to target their secret algorithms, which generate billions in profits but can also guide online users to extremist sites. So they seek to use a patchwork of interventions that may not solve one problem and, in some cases, may create another.

The stakes are high for the social media giants.

It gets even better, of course the ADL is involved. The LA Times The piece goes on to describe how Beau promoted himself from the depths of Silicon Valley with the endorsement of ADL:

The story of Beau’s intersection with Silicon Valley began with the 2020 election season.

Moonshot and the ADL teamed up last fall to dissuade Internet users from pursuing conspiracies and violent rhetoric by luring them with an ad to content that included his video. Moonshot managed to create 1,330 engagements with its target audience, intercepting thousands of searches in the United States, including more than 600 people who may have seen Beau’s clip after searching for content about armed groups.

The video focused on how armed black men are treated with undue suspicion by law enforcement and underscored the need for people of all races to work together for change, the company’s report said.
But in February, Moonshot received an anonymous complaint, alleging that King, the freelance journalist who plays the character, had engaged in violent far-left rhetoric.

King said in an interview with The Times that he is not anti-Semitic. He describes himself as “very anti-authoritarian” and said he considers himself politically to the left of the Democratic Party, but not an extremist. He sees anarchy as an ideal, but he’s not the kind of anarchist who “throws rocks at the cops,” he said.

“I would love a stateless society where everyone gets along,” said King, whose real accent is less pronounced than his persona Beau’s.

Is Beau an undercover federal agent? As with Ray Epps, the jury is still out, but the evidence seems to point in a certain direction. Regardless, Beau’s biggest fan base seems to be on the left. So if the FBI’s goal is to fool conservatives, that’s not happening. But they’re definitely taking a quick left, no doubt.

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