On February 17th, Patreon’s Trust and Safety Team reached out to the authors of the This Week in Fascism column to notify them that their account was being terminated for supposedly violating Patreon’s wildly vague anti-doxxing policy. In their email, Patreon stated that not only would they be closing the account, but they also refused to allow an appeals process.

On November 13th, a Telegram channel run by the Proud Boys and long boosted by Chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, called the (now defunct) Mass Report and Retweet Channel, posted a link to This Week in Fascism’s Patreon account asking for the groups’ fascist followers to mass report the account for supposedly violating the company’s terms of service.

A few details worth mentioning: This Week in Fascism reports on doxxes that have already been published by antifascist groups and individuals and are already readily available to the public. We do not publish our own doxxes, we highlight the excellent work of others. We also never published any of that information directly to Patreon’s platform.