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You might not be familiar with the YouTube personality known as “Beau of the Fifth Column,” but he’s currently shrouded in controversy. Many are starting to question whether this so-called “hicklib,” whose real name is Jason King, might actually be a federal agent undercover. Why? Well, “Beau” has a past that raises some eyebrows. In 2007, he was arrested and convicted on seven counts of human trafficking. Strangely, the government let him keep most of his wealth and assets — when was the last time you saw the United States government treat someone to a random act of kindness?

There’s an entire thread here that catalogues the strangeness surrounding “Beau”.

Here’s an excerpt:

Looking into the biggest hicklib influencer and amateur leftist journalist “Beau of The Fifth Colmun” aka Justin King

A multimillionaire convicted of human trafficking Eastern European women into indentured servitude, coerced labor & garnishing their wages to payoff their debts

He uses a fake southern accent to spread anarchist & libertarian left stuff as his character “Beau of the Fifth Column”

However, the government allowed him to keep most of his wealth and assets despite being convicted of 7 felonies in 2007 and sealed the statement of reasons why

Apparently, this guy also infiltrated anonymous and antifa groups as a informant now the same forces use him for “deradicalizing” rural folks

When you see guys like this and wonder “where’d they find him?”, they’re assets.

The evidence in the form of screenshots is in the thread which you can access here.

Here are some of the strange details surrounding “Beau”, whose real name is Justin Eric King:

Usually the government doesn’t agree to “sweetheart deals” unless they get something in return.

Nowadays, Beau has a fake Southern accent and looks like your typical rural conservative. However, instead of promoting right-wing ideas, he’s pushing anarchist and left-libertarian viewpoints under his alter ego “Beau of the Fifth Column.”

Here’s where it gets even weirder. Recently, there was an LA Times article that revealed how Big Tech was trying to come up with new ways to “curb” right-wing extremism by using a “bait and switch” plan. Sound more like the FBI, doesn’t it?

The whole idea is they get guys to grow scrabbly beards and wear trucker hats and talk in exaggerated Southern accents about how rural they are and how much they love guns. You’re nodding your head and listening along, and before you know it, the “hicklib” starts talking about how they support “commonsense gun reform” and child transgenderism and fighting for the Ukraine and democratic socialism.

LA Times:

The idea began as a bait-and-switch: Give people searching online for terms like “join Oath Keepers” or “bomb instructions” some content that seemed to fit their request but instead offered an alternative to extremism.
The method, developed by Moonshot CVE, is called the “Redirect.” Through partnerships with Google as well as the Anti-Defamation League, the British firm’s goal is to dissuade users from pursuing conspiracies and violent rhetoric by luring them with advertisements to other sites.

It’s just one of dozens of ideas that tech companies are experimenting with as — in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection — they come under increasing pressure to prevent the spread of extremism on their platforms. In an effort to blunt federal regulation, California’s internet giants repeatedly have insisted they are working to solve the problem. The flow of dangerous content continues to proliferate.

And in an internet figure known as Beau of the Fifth Column, Moonshot thought it had found the perfect person to redirect online users to.

Should we really believe that they just randomly picked Beau as the ideal online influencer to steer right-wing white guys toward, and then only later started to question his true identity? That sounds pretty unlikely, especially if Beau was already involved in some secret scheme. The LA Times article feels like a smokescreen, aimed at throwing off anyone who’s skeptical about who Beau might actually be working for.

It continues:

Broadcasting under a bare lightbulb from a shed packed with camping gear, Beau appeared as a Southern gun owner with progressive views. He had a calming demeanor, unkempt beard, military aura and huge YouTube following.

But Beau, whose real name is Justin King, also had a history of supporting anarchism and making statements that to many seem anti-Semitic. He is a felon.

The fiasco over Moonshot’s redirect experiment came to a head last week in Washington as federal legislators grilled the chief executive officers of Twitter, Facebook and Google about extremism and misinformation.

“They sent people who were already looking for violence to a convicted felon with anarchist and anti-Semitic views,” Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) said to Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google’s parent company Alphabet, during a House hearing.

“It raises one of the key questions about moderating online platforms,” Griffith said afterward. “Who is vetting the vetters? We continue to need more transparency and accountability.”

Critics say the underlying issue is that internet companies don’t want regulators to target their secret algorithms, which drive billions in profit but also can guide online users to extremist sites. So they seek to use a patchwork of interventions that might not solve a problem and, in some cases, can create another one.

The stakes are high for the social media giants.

 

It gets even better — of course the ADL is involved. The LA Times piece goes on to describe how Beau was being promoted from deep within Silicon Valley with ADL’s endorsement:

The story of Beau’s intersection with Silicon Valley began with the 2020 election season.

Moonshot and the ADL teamed up last fall to dissuade internet users from pursuing conspiracies and violent rhetoric by luring them with an advertisement to content that included his video. Moonshot succeeded in creating 1,330 engagements with its target audience, intercepting thousands of searches across the U.S., including more than 600 people who may have viewed Beau’s clip after searching for content about armed groups.

The video focused on how armed Black men are treated with undue suspicion by law enforcement and stressed the need for people of all races to work together for change, according to the company’s report.
But in February, Moonshot received an anonymous complaint, alleging that King, the independent journalist who plays the character, had been involved in violent far-left rhetoric.

King said in an interview with The Times that he is not anti-Semitic. He describes himself as being “very anti-authoritarian,” and said that he considers himself politically left of the Democratic Party, but not an extremist. He views anarchy as an ideal, but he is not the type of anarchist to be “throwing rocks at cops,” he said.

“I would love a stateless society where everyone gets along,” said King, whose real accent is less pronounced than that of his Beau persona.

Is Beau an undercover federal agent? Just like with Ray Epps, the jury is still out, but the evidence seems to point in a certain direction. Regardless, Beau’s largest fan base seems to be on the left. So, if the FBI’s goal is to deceive conservatives, that’s not happening. But they’re certainly pulling a fast one on the left, no doubt about it.

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