It's Going Down

It's Going Down (IGD) is a media collective publishing news, analysis and commentary from an anarchist perspective. The collective covers autonomous anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-fascist movements across North America. It is known for producing investigative work on far-Right, white nationalist, and neo-Nazi networks as well as reports on contemporary social struggles and movements.

For other uses, see It's Goin' Down.

It's Going Down
Formation2015 (2015)
TypeMedia collective
Websiteitsgoingdown.org

Contents

It's Going Down both publishes content on their website and produces a podcast and radio show.[1]

The website launched in 2015 and organizes a wide variety of content, ranging from interviews, podcasts, and reports from participants of social movements. The website reported that it was averaging 20–30 thousand visitors a day as of mid-2017, with over 2 million total site views in August 2017.[2] This indicates a significant increase from 2015, at which point it received an average of 300 daily page views. The website experienced a major spike in readership following Donald Trump's presidential election in 2016.[3]

Their work and social media posts has been referenced in outlets ranging from Business Insider[4], Bellingcat, BuzzFeed News and The Intercept.[5][6][7][8] It has at times been the first to break coverage[9] on events on the far-right.[10] Other times, it has been the only media source to cover events.[6]

History

In September 2017, Peter Beinart quoted It's Going Down as stating that "[s]uddenly, anarchists and antifa, who have been demonized and sidelined by the wider Left have been hearing from liberals and Leftists, 'you've been right all along.'"[11]

The collective has been one of the most cited and referenced anarchist projects by the mainstream media and has been featured, interviewed by, and referenced in Teen Vogue[12], Rolling Stone[13], The New York Times[14], The Intercept[15], The Daily Dot,[16] The Independent[17], WestWord[18], Mother Jones[19], Yahoo News[20], Mel Magazine[21], Oregon Live[22], World Socialist Website[23], Newsweek[24], VICE[25], The Guardian[26], The Huffington Post[27], Bitch Magazine[28], The Daily Beast[29], Curbed[30], Right Wing Watch[31], and Salon.[32]

In August 2020, Facebook expanded its "Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy", removing It's Going Down alongside over 800 QAnon, far-right militia, anti-racist and anti-capitalist groups. It's Going Down and Crimethinc., another left-wing and anarchist publishing platform that dates back to the 1990s, released a joint statement against the bans. This announcement followed a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on "stopping anarchist violence" led by Ted Cruz which mentioned It's Going Down among other media collectives.[33]

In September 2020, far-Right internet trolls made hoax Joe Biden website that linked back to It's Gong Down[34].

Fox News has included coverage on It's Going Down, often critically. In June 2017, Jesse Watters interviewed an individual who claimed to be the leader of "Antifa". The segment started with Watters reading from "An Open Letter To Liberals & Progressives From The Black Bloc," an editorial on the site. Kevin, the interviewee, claimed to have written the article. The interviewee later made clear that the appearance had been a prank and that he had no association with It's Going Down. It's Going Down reported that it received dozens of death threats following the coverage on Watters' World. Donald Trump may have watched the show and Eric Trump shared a clip from it. The website reported similar death threats after Tucker Carlson interviewed Ian Miles Cheong about the same article.[35]

References
  1. "Radio & Podcast". It's Going Down. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  2. Montgomery, Blake (September 7, 2017). "Here's A Guide To The Antifa Network That's Trying To Solidify A Nazi-Punching Movement". BuzzFeed News.
  3. Cammeron, Brenna (August 14, 2017). "Antifa: Left-wing militants on the rise". BBC News.
  4. Lahut, Jake. "An antifa hoax about a 'peaceful flag burning to resist police' riled up right-wing groups in Gettysburg for no reason". Business Insider. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  5. Evans, Robert (August 17, 2018). "Fascist Activists Have Spent The Last Year Trying to Win Over Police". Bellingcat.
  6. Klippenstein, Ken (November 11, 2019). "The U.S. Military Is Monitoring Interfaith Group Opposed to Child Separation, Leaked Document Reveals". The Intercept.
  7. Brown, Alleen; Knefel, John (September 1, 2018). "The FBI Tried to Use the #MeToo Moment to Pressure an Environmental Activist Into Becoming an Informant". The Intercept.
  8. Montgomery, Blake (September 27, 2017). "Was This Banned Fake Antifa Twitter Account Actually Troll Tweeting From Russia?". BuzzFeed News.
  9. "Kent State gun girl's anti-Semitism exposed in leaked chats". The Daily Dot. April 16, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  10. Palma, Bethania (February 21, 2020). "Who Is Kaitlin Bennett, And Why Did Her 'Liberty Hangout' Promote Holocaust Denial?". Snopes.
  11. Beinart, Peter (September 6, 2017). "The Rise of the Violent Left". The Atlantic. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  12. "Is It Time for America's Industries to Strike All at Once?". Teen Vogue. January 24, 2019. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  13. Feuer, Alan (May 15, 2018). "Antifa on Trial: How a College Professor Joined the Left's Radical Ranks". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  14. Stockman, Farah (February 3, 2017). "Anarchists Respond to Trump's Inauguration, by Any Means Necessary". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  15. Biddle, Sam (October 12, 2021). "Revealed: Facebook's Secret Blacklist of "Dangerous Individuals and Organizations"". The Intercept. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  16. "Leaked audio reveals white supremacists' partnership with prominent anti-abortion movement". The Daily Dot. December 14, 2021. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  17. "We asked Antifa activists to explain why violence is sometimes justified". The Independent. September 8, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  18. Roberts, Michael. "Why Charges Weren't Filed Even Though Stabbing Victim Was Gutted Like a Fish". Westword. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  19. Adams, Mason. "How a "bunch of badass queer anarchists" are teaming up with locals to block a pipeline through Appalachia". Mother Jones. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  20. "Exclusive: Document reveals the FBI is tracking border protest groups as extremist organizations". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  21. "Anarchy in the U-S-A". MEL Magazine. July 12, 2018. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  22. Kruzmane, Diana (July 4, 2019). "Milkshake-makers in Portland protests say they got death threats after police warned of 'quick-drying cement'". oregonlive. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  23. "US prison strike enters second week amid media blackout". World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  24. "The FBI Is investigating people with "kind of an antifa ideology"". Newsweek. December 1, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  25. "California Anti-Fascists Want Racists and the Trump Administration to Be Afraid". www.vice.com. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  26. "Anti-fascist activists take on Trump and the far right: 'Resistance is our only shot'". the Guardian. February 2, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  27. "College Republican Group Turning Point Has A White Supremacy Problem". HuffPost. May 10, 2019. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  28. "Who Will We Be after This Nightmare Is Over?". Bitch Media. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  29. Weill, Kelly (June 12, 2017). "Trolls Trick Alt-Right to Defend Confederate Statue". The Daily Beast. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  30. Sisson, Patrick (May 7, 2019). "Uber, Lyft drivers striking in major cities to protest low pay". Curbed. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  31. Holt, Jared (November 6, 2019). "Former CUNY Adjunct Professor Outed as White Nationalist Activist". Right Wing Watch. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  32. Sheffield, Matthew (March 10, 2017). "Anti-fascist radicals: Liberals don't realize the serious danger of the alt-right". Salon. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  33. Lennard, Natasha (August 20, 2020). "Facebook's Ban on Far-Left Pages Is an Extension of Trump Propaganda". The Intercept.
  34. Fauzia, Miriam. "Fact check: Antifa.com redirects to Joe Biden's website, but Biden campaign not involved". USA TODAY. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  35. Montgomery, Blake (July 18, 2017). "A Fake Antifa Member Trolled A Fox News Host, And The President May Have Watched It". BuzzFeed News.
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