To clarify, there was and still is an active astroturf campaign organizing thousands of people to violate recommendations by the federal government about social distancing guidelines. Then there is a guy who registered a bunch of domains and is getting doxxed. Not sure why the later has an article in Mother Jones why the former does not.

On the one hand, we've got a super-long effort post with lots of cites and documentation.

On the other, a guy on twitter met an old hippie that says otherwise.

Seems pretty metaphorical for the whole situation, no?

This is not just a guy on Twitter, he's a well-known reporter for Mother Jones Magazine.

What he's saying does not dispute anything in the well-cited Reddit post. It just offers new information which paints it in an entirely different light. Because rather than basing the entire allegation on WHOIS records, he reached out to talk to the person involved, something that reporters do, but the Reddit hivemind does not.

Did you read the comment that this thread is linked to?

It's not based on WHOIS records for non-existent sites, it's based on CMS, HTML elements and identifies specific PR consultancies.

The information highway sure turned out to be a perfect medium for disinformation, huh?