Clash of the 'Extremism' Reporters

Amanda Moore is a freelance reporter best known for going “undercover” with the MAGA movement. She found herself denied entry to the event, as one of the “propagandists” singled out by ACU chairman Matt Schlapp, along with reporters from HuffPost and Mother Jones. Instead Moore sat in the lobby of the hotel where the conference was hosted, writing about the experience for the Nation.

Ben Goggin is the deputy tech editor at NBC News, whose specialties include extremism. Goggin wrote a piece about the “Nazis” who went to CPAC and “mingled openly.” When Schlapp said they were unwelcome, Goggin tweeted out video of the young men who self-identified as Nazis to the extremism reporter, attempting to intimidate Moore. One of them gives a Hitler salute behind her. But Goggin’s report did not mention Moore by name. As a result, she is going full Felicia Sonmez at him on Twitter/X.