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In January 2018, Infowars editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson — who in the past, has pushed numerous (and often racially-flavored and already debunked) conspiracy theories about false flags, purported cover-ups, and snowflakes — apparently had his sensibilities offended by a feminist web site, tweeting: The post was accompanied by a picture showing a separate article with one sentence highlighted: While the excerpt is real, it is not part of a legitimate publication. It was actually published by a satirical web site called Medusa Magazine in June 2017: Medusa, which bills itself as a spoof of the Feminist left, announced in November 2017 that it would stop producing new articles. A person identifying as the site's owner claims that their satire was too effective among the right wing, as various sites had picked up Medusa articles and run them while apparently under the impression that the site actually was written by social justice warriors (and demonstrably not bothering to do the barest of legwork to find out for themselves more about the articles or their purported authors): They also argued that Medusa was always intended to be satirical, citing a May 2017 Facebook post on their other site, Age of Shitlords. The post is no longer publicly available but can be accessed via online archives:
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