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Media missed how Proud Boys worked with FBI to bring down left-wing operations: report

Despite the Proud Boys being all over the news for seditious conspiracy convictions, most outlets failed to mention that the FBI was activel

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Despite the Proud Boys being all over the news for seditious conspiracy convictions, most outlets failed to mention that the FBI was actively working with numerous members of the far-right group, including its former leader, to specifically target those on the left, according to a report from Jacobin.

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is among up to nine members who reportedly served as informants to the FBI. Those informants were partly helping law enforcement target “Black Lives Matter protesters and other left-wing activists,” according to Jacobin’s Branko Marcetic.

“That fact doesn’t just make the FBI’s failure to detect and prevent the Capitol riot even more baffling,” Marcetic wrote. “Revelations from the trial suggested that the FBI’s historical and ongoing fixation on left-wing protests potentially blinded it to the threat of the far right, and that the bureau is even happy to collaborate with far-right groups as a way of neutralizing what it sees as a greater threat from the Left.”