Mike Cernovich - Hoaxed: Everything They Told You is a Lie

Hoaxed

Everything They Told You is a Lie

By Mike Cernovich

www.HoaxedMovie.com

Directed by Jon du Toit & Scooter Downey

Editing by Kathie @MustangGirl3

Hoaxed: Everything They Told You is a Lie

Copyright 2018 by Mike Cernovich

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Contents

Introduction

When youre making a film, 90% of the best work gets left on the cutting room floor. You spend hundreds of hours interviewing dozens of interesting people, and each subject receives only a few minutes in a feature-length film.

Over the course of a year-and-a-half, I met some of the worlds greatest media minds. I even interviewed Alex Jones, and asked him if he is a purveyor of fake fews.

For this book, we took several of the best interviews, edited them for clarity, and posted them for your enjoyment. Think of this Hoaxed book as a collection of interviews.

These interviews represent different viewpoints and I do not endorse anyone in particular or vouch for what they say, nor that they endorse me. Youll find that some of the interviewees are highly critical of my work, and they will challenge your views, whatever they may be.

Ive also included some of my own original essays, and share my experience in dealing with fake news.

Be sure to update / synch this book in three weeks. It will be updated with exclusive images from Hoaxed and to improve any formatting issues. (There are always some glitches in the first version. Well get any formatting issues and typos fixed immediately.)

Mike Cernovich

Orange County, California - 2018

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What Its Like Being Lied About

Im an author, filmmaker, and journalist. Youre reading this book, arent you? And its based on a major motion picture, which is a fancy way of saying movie. Hoaxed is my second film. My first film, Silenced , featured Alan Dershowitz, Candace Owens, and a diverse cast of rabbis, adherent Muslims, Christians, and offensive comedians and meme makers.

I enjoy talking to and about interesting people and interesting subjects, and dont really have politics. Think about all of the profiles of me, and there have been thousands. None of them mention my actual political views, because my views are sort of boring.

My first book Gorilla Mindset has sold nearly 100,000 copies. The average book sells 1,000 copies in a lifetime, thus prompting multi-best-selling author Neil Strauss to say, Selling 10,000 copies of a book is equivalent to a gold record. Selling 100,000 copies of a book is going platinum.

Im currently involved in precedent-setting litigation in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, after I sued to obtain records involving a convicted sexual predator. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a non-partisan organization devoted to journalism, filed a brief supporting my lawsuit. The Miami Herald also filed a lawsuit after mine was dismissed, claiming that my lawsuit was just and valid.

A member of Congress, John Conyers, resigned because of my reporting. And an A-List Hollywood actor was fired by Disney after my reporting surfaced some disturbing views he had. Chuck Todd asked the National Security Adviser of the United States of America about me on Meet the Press. Thats the level of the game I play at, when I choose to.

As Muhammad Alisaid, Its not bragging if you can back it up.

Yet if you Google me, youre be taken into an alternative universe called Wikiality, a term coined by left-wing comedian Stephen Colbert. According to the Urban dictionary, Wikiality refers to the changing of reality or truth via a Wikipedia-like system, allowing the public to change facts as long as there are others that agree.

The Wikipedia entry on me describes me as an alt-right conspiracy theorist.

I have a biracial family, so a white ethnostate isnt a desire of mine, and I dont like the alt-right guys. Countless articles from reputable sources explain that Im not alt-right. It is simply inaccurate to describe me as alt-right, but accuracy doesnt matter to Wikipedia.

Some people with very disturbing Internet histories, in an effort to incite death threats against me, have taken over the Wikipedia entry on me. If you make a change to my Wikipedia page, the change will be reverted within 5 minutes. Whenever Im in the news, the editors lock the page down to prevent anyone from editing it to reflect the truth about me.

Im not the only victim of Wikiality. Nazism was the official political philosophy of the GOP, Google results showed. Whatever one thinks of the GOP (and I dont think highly of it), Nazism would be a bit too far. The Google result was disinformation.

Google refused to take personal responsibility for spreading disinformation. The fault was Wikipedias, Google claimed.

Google prioritizes Wikipedia in its search result. The top search hit for nearly any subject will be Wikipedia. (Facebook, too, has integrated Wikipedia into its system, and when you share a link to a news article, and click for more information, the Wikipedia page shows up.)

The issue is that stalkers and harassers can take over a Wikipedia page. It only takes 3 people to collude against you, and your Wikipedia page will share whatever they want it to. Theres nothing anyone can do to stop this.

When Wikipedia isnt outright fake, they exaggerate trivial stories.

Did you know, for example, that a member of Congress resigned because of me? John Conyers, Jr. settled a sexual harassment lawsuit against him. I obtained the settlement documents, which BuzzFeed published. Boom. He resigned. Dont take my word for it, the Washington Post wrote about my involvement in the Conyers story.

Susan Rice, former director of the National Security Agent, used her tremendous powers to spy on American people. The process, known as unmasking, was the biggest spying scandal of 2017. Rice denied that she unmasked American citizens, and then was forced to admit it after I broke the story.

The Wikipedia page on me doesnt even mention the Susan Rice unmasking story, and it barely mentions my reporting on James Gunn. Gunn was fired from a billion-dollar film franchise after I uncovered disturbing Tweeted he had made, which he claimed were merely jokes about child molestation. James Gunn gets one line in the entry about me.

Five full paragraphs are devoted to a trivial internet beef I had with some guy whose name I can barely remember. Sometime a year or so ago, I found a Tweet by a mid-tier YouTube named Sam. His Tweet read: Dont care re Polanski, but I hope if my daughter is ever raped it is by an older truly talented man w/ a great sense of mise en scene.

That Tweet was pretty creepy, to put it mildly, and I called MSNBC for comment. MSNBC cancelled Sams contributor contract, although it quickly rehired him after Christopher Hayes came to Seders rescue. Sam was only joking, Hayes claimed, and everyone needed to lighten up. Whats a rape joke among friends?

In terms of my life, the Sam story wasnt a top 100. To the creeps who stalk my Wikipedia page, one trivial story takes on outsized importance. Five full paragraphs detailing every in-and-out to something I spent an hour on.