Michael Benz, a conservative crusader against online censorship, appears to have a secret history as an alt-right persona

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Brandy Zadrozny is a senior reporter for NBC News. She covers misinformation, extremism and the internet.

Michael Benz, a former Trump state department official whose work has been cited in congressional hearings and promoted by Elon Musk, has become a go-to voice for Republican criticism of government and social media censorship in the past year.

“The fight for white identity would mean a battle for the soul of the internet itself,” Frame Game wrote in 2017. Frame Game sometimes referred to himself as “alt-lite,” a play on alt-right, a community that was resistant even to Jewish people who sympathized with them.

 

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