Thu Jul 6, 2023 – 11:16 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A couple of weeks ago, Rolling Stone published an essay intending to expose the viciousness of “right-wing influencers” titled “The Right Boosted Trans Hate — And Ran Up Their Follower Counts.” The catalyst for the hit piece was the astronomical success of Matt Walsh’s documentary What Is a Woman? on Twitter, which racked up 170 million views, a number that may not refer to people who watched it all the way through, but is incredible nonetheless. Other metrics buttress the success—the documentary was shared over 837,800 times over the past 120 days.
Predictably, Rolling Stone selected their interviews carefully, going first to the disgraced anti-Christian activist group the Southern Poverty Law Center, which stated that Walsh’s film helped to “amplify ant-trans ideology, making it mainstream, providing it to a bigger audience. It took advantage of the underlying transphobia that exists in the country.” It also got Walsh invitations to testify on bills protecting children from “sex changes,” including in front of the Tennessee House. In January 2022, Rolling Stone notes, Walsh had 767,000 Twitter followers—in January 2023, he had 1.24 million.
The premise of Rolling Stone’s
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