Research and writing connected to the Proof project—both in its Substack and social media dimensions—is regularly cited by major media. Here are some exemplars from calendar year 2023 so far.
{Note: This is a different sort of “press kit”—inasmuch as it’s a timeline of some of the major-media coverage of Proof in 2023 so far, from Rolling Stone to New York Magazine, The Verge and The Independent to Newsweek and Fox Business. Entries include the date and source of the coverage as well as the title of the article and a brief excerpt of it. For still-in-progress lists of domestic and international journalists who follow the Proof project, see the Proof reports here and here. Outlets known to be MAGA propaganda organs are noted with a “ 🏴☠️ ” instead of a national flag. Click the button below to subscribe to Proof on a monthly or annual basis.}
Key: Countries Represented
🇧🇷 — Brazil
🇨🇷 — Costa Rica
🇫🇮 — Finland
🇩🇪 — Germany
🇬🇧 — Great Britain
🇬🇷 — Greece
🇭🇰 — Hong Kong
🇮🇳 — India
🇸🇬 — Singapore
🇦🇪 — United Arab Emirates
🇺🇸 — United States
🇻🇳 — Vietnam
September 6, 2023
Outlet: UPROXX (🇺🇸)
Title: “Tucker Carlson Has Reached A New Low By Interviewing a ‘Con Artist’ Who Claims He Did Drugs And Had Sex With Barack Obama” (link)
August 30, 2023
Outlet: Fox Business (🇺🇸)
Title: “X’s New Rules for ‘Safe Political Discourse’ Draw Concern From the Right, Skepticism From the Left” (link)
“Former CNN analyst Seth Abramson, who was critical of Elon Musk’s ownership, said X would only continue to get worse. ‘Twitter is unsafe. It is not going to be made safe because it costs too much and its owner is a racist, antisemitic, misogynistic, QAnonist Kremlinist who hates democracy and his employees. Twitter will only get worse and worse each day and we should all be packing up our things’, Abramson wrote on the platform.”
August 25, 2023
Outlet:The Independent (🇬🇧)
Title: “‘Slouchy and Hateful’: Celebrities React to Historic Trump Mugshot” (link)
“Author Seth Abramson gestured to the fact that Donald Trump’s campaign website had already started offering donors a T-shirt with the image of his mugshot on it.
‘Photoshopped image that removes Fulton County Sheriff’s Department logo so you can sell $35 tees to the poors, check. Accusing others of the crime you’re charged with, check. Insisting you’ll never surrender under a photo of your surrender, check. Looking orange, slouchy, violent and hateful, check’, he wrote.”
July 26, 2023
Outlet: AugustMan (🇸🇬)
Title: “The ‘Twitter To X’ Rebrand: A Round-Up Of The Most Hilarious Tweets And Memes” (link)
July 26, 2023
Outlet: Lifestyle Asia (🇭🇰)
Title: “The Best Tweets (or Xs) About Twitter Rebranding to X” (link)
“One of the best tweets might be the user [Seth Abramson] who made a good point about how the pronunciation of ‘X’ in the case of Twitter [means the platform] will now be called, um, ‘Xitter’.”
July 25, 2023
Outlet:La Nación (🇨🇷)
Title: “Memes in the Wake of Twitter’s Change From a Bird to ‘X’” (link)
July 5, 2023
Outlet:Newsweek (🇺🇸)
Title: “Donald Trump Shares Image of White House in Flames on 4th of July” (link)
“Author, journalist and attorney Seth Abramsontweeted, while sharing the image, ‘This is the image Donald Trump “retruthed” on the morning of July 4, 2023. He wants us afraid. He wants us divided. He doesn’t believe in democracy. He’s a career criminal and traitor to America who belongs in federal prison—not on a federal ballot. He’s a danger to our nation.’”
June 27, 2023
Outlet: MTV News (🇫🇮)
Title: “Trump Supporters Claim the Wagner Rebellion Was a U.S.-Biden Conspiracy” (link)
“Journalist Seth Abramson, who has writtenfor The Washington Post and The Guardian, among others, tweeted in response to the conversation unfolding in MAGA circles, ‘The level of batshit crazy this Russia news is causing in MAGA world is basically DEFCON 1. Apparently Hunter Biden’s minor tax evasion case is worth Joe Biden secretly orchestrating WWIII over (or something). It’s all just the scariest—but also the stupidest—lunacy you’ll ever read.’”
June 26, 2023
Outlet:Metro Weekly (🇺🇸)
Title: “Elon Musk Bans the Term ‘Cis’ on Twitter” (link)
“‘I’m 102.3% sure Elon has no idea what “cis” or “cisgender” mean, either connotatively or denotatively or etymologically’, New York Times best-selling author Seth Abramson wrote. ‘Threatening to suspend users on your “free speech” platform because they uttered a word you don’t understand but fear emasculates you is quite the fascist flex.’
Former Republican congressman and conservative commentator Joe Walshagreed with Abramson.”
June 25, 2023
Outlet:Newsweek (🇺🇸)
Title: “MAGA Claims Russian Mutiny Was ‘Smoke Screen’ to Cover for Hunter Biden” (link)
“Several other social media commentators reacted to the theories emerging from MAGA supporters, including journalist Seth Abramson who called their claims the ‘stupidest’ remarks he’d ever read.
‘The level of batshit crazy this Russia news is causing in MAGA world is basically DEFCON 1. Apparently Hunter Biden’s minor tax evasion case is worth Joe Biden secretly orchestrating WWIII over (or something). It’s all just the scariest—but also the stupidest—lunacy you’ll ever read’, tweeted Abramson.
June 13, 2023
Outlet: Mashable (🇮🇳)
Title: “Elon Musk Hates Being Called ‘Cis,’ So He Bans The Term From Twitter; The Internet Schools Him” (link)
June 21, 2023
Outlet:The Independent (🇬🇧)
Title: “Elon Musk Sparks Outrage with Threat to Ban ‘Cisgender’ As a ‘Slur’ on Twitter” (link)
“New York Times bestselling author Seth Abramson doubted that Mr. Musk knows what the word ‘cisgender’ means.
‘I’m 102.3% sure Elon has no idea what “cis” or “cisgender” mean, either connotatively or denotatively or etymologically’, he wrote. ‘Threatening to suspend users on your “free speech” platform because they uttered a word you don’t understand but fear emasculates you is quite the fascist flex.’”
June 20, 2023
Outlet: News 18 (🇮🇳)
Title: “Bill Burr Shutting Joe Rogan Down With Simple Covid-19 Logic Has Gone Viral Again, Here’s Why” (link)
June 7, 2023
Outlet: Brasil 247 (🇧🇷)
Title: “International Developments May Relate to the 8th of January [Coup Attempt in Brazil]” (link)
“In a report published on the U.S. investigative journalism website Proof, journalist Seth Abramson, a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University, two of the best universities in the United States and the world, reported that Brazilian Federal Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, in his courteous journey [to Washington, D.C. in early January 2021], participated in a meeting that circumscribed the strategy to try to prevent the recognition of Joe Biden’s victory by the United States Congress—which [strategy] resulted in the invasion of the United States Capitol.”
June 7, 2023
Outlet: The Federalist (🏴☠️)
Title: “Senate Republicans Urge Pentagon To Investigate Biden Appointee For Classified Intel Leaks” (link)
“On March 26, 2017, Pentagon official Colin Kahl promoted a thread on Twitter posted by Seth Abramson that alleged a Trump-inspired ‘plot to sell America’s foreign policy for foreign oil and steal an election.’ Kahl also gave credence to the Steele dossier, writing in two separate tweets, ‘Last night, Trump’s Twitter account channeled anxiety over [the Russia scandal]. Perhaps it’s because the [Steele] dossier is panning out” and “Steele’s Trump-Russia dossier holds up pretty well.’”
June 7, 2023
Outlet: Gulf News (🇦🇪)
Title: “Intact Alien Vehicles: United States Faces Pressure to Reveal UFO Evidence” (link)
{NB: The article links to and includes the Proof social media posting pictured below.}
April 11, 2023
Outlet: The Poke (🇬🇧)
Title: “Twitter HQ’s Modified Sign Is More Evidence That Elon Musk Is Three Ten-Year-Olds in An Overcoat” (link)
“Seth Abramson tweeted, ‘Great—now your company sign looks like it was vandalized by a fifth grader with a third grader’s sense of humor. How utterly demoralizing for anyone who still works in that building.’”
April 11, 2023
Outlet: T3N (🇩🇪)
Title: “Twitter and Substack: Why Elon Musk Deleted One of His Tweets” (link)
“The reactions to Elon Musk’s actions were not long in coming. DonaldTrump biographer Seth Abramson wrote, ‘Elon’s pettiness knows no bounds. Searching Twitter for the word “substack” now returns search results for the word “newsletter.” Elon is the biggest asshole I’ve ever seen in my life.’”
April 9, 2023
Outlet:Hellas Journal (🇬🇷)
Title: “Russian Armed Forces’ #2 Knew in Advance of the Wagner Mutiny, Rumors That He Is Now Being Interrogated” (link)
April 8, 2023
Outlet: The Verge (🇺🇸)
Title: “Twitter Is Now Redirecting Searches for ‘Substack’ to ‘Newsletter’” (link)
{NB: The article links to a Proof social media post that was subsequently removed when Proof archived its tweets in preparation for its move to another social media platform. However, the invisible text can still be highlighted to show the original Verge reporting, as seen in the image below.}
“Many commentators saw Elon Musk’s changes to Twitter after his acquisition of it as a classic example of enshittification. They argued that the decrease in quality of the service as well as the search for new ways to monetize it, such as $7 blue checkmarks, meant the platform was getting enshittified. For example, Seth Abramson on Twitter argued that the word should be added to the Oxford English Dictionary because of how well it described the Musk era; [the tweet] earned almost 300 likes on April 3, 2023. Twitter user Amal El-Mohtar, a New York Times columnist—and the account which Abramson quote-tweeted—identified Twitter’s decision to charge for its API as a classic enshittification.”
April 1, 2023
Outlet:Báo Người Lao Động (🇻🇳)
Title: “How Long Will It Be Before Donald Trump’s Trial?” (link)
“Attorney Seth Abramson said that any trial for Donald Trump, including those he may face in other investigations, would be affected if they take place after the [2024 U.S. presidential] election.
‘Americans have a right to know if they are voting for a suspect facing the possibility of jail, and that’s not just [as to] the case in Manhattan but any case Trump has, whether in Georgia or Washington, D.C.’, Abramson wrote on Twitter. ‘These cases must be handled promptly.’”
March 31, 2023
Outlet:New York Magazine (🇺🇸)
Title: “The Resistance Is Super-Psyched About Trump’s Indictment” (link)
“No one is riding higher than Seth Abramson, the Twitter-thread maximalist who documented every wrong of the Trump administration. Finally, an indictment has validated his years of posting. ‘For years I called Trump a career criminal in print and online on the basis of my knowledge, experience, expertise, and research as a criminal defense attorney, journalist, journalism professor, cultural critic, and Trump biographer—not as a partisan’, he wrote. ‘So I do feel vindicated.’”
March 31, 2023
Outlet:Newsweek (🇺🇸)
Title: “Donald Trump’s Trial Could Be Delayed Until After the Election” (link)
“Attorney and author Seth Abramson said that any Trump trial, including those he could face in other criminal investigations into him, would be ‘poisoned’ should they take place after the 2024 election.
‘Americans have a right to know if they’re voting for a convicted criminal who faces the possibility of jail or prison time—and that applies not just to the Manhattan case but any cases arising from Georgia or Washington, D.C. These cases must be handled in a timely fashion’, Abramson tweeted.”
March 16, 2023
Outlet: The Daily Dot (🇺🇸)
Title: “Misfired Tear Gas Is the New Scapegoat for Why Trump Supporters Stormed the Capitol on January 6” (link)
The footage quickly went viral, with many opponents of Donald Trump arguing that the video provided even more proof of the former president’s culpability [for January 6].
‘Jesus—this is powerful evidence that Trump had the January 6 crowd in the palm of his hand, and that as soon as he got the word out that Mike Pence had “betrayed” him (and all insurrectionist MAGAs), the attack on the Capitol was fully on’, author Seth Abramson wrote.”
February 24, 2023
Outlet: HuffPost (🇬🇧)
Title: “Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson Resort to Ugly New Low on Ukraine” (link)
“Seth Abramson tweeted, ‘[Greene and Carlson are] two monsters—and note the chyron below them—but not [of] the Sesame Street kind. I can honestly say that I made it well into my thirties believing that people like this didn’t actually exist outside of hate groups. Now they’re in the United States Congress and on television in primetime.’”
February 10, 2023
Outlet:Rolling Stone (🇺🇸)
Title: “‘First Amendment’ Group Sues New York Times Over Unflattering Description” (link)
“The suit against the New York Times is the third in a string of multi-million-dollar federal defamation suits filed by the First Amendment Praetorians (1AP). The group sued Substack journalist and Twitter personality Seth Abramson in federal court in April 2022 for $25 million. That lawsuit claims Abramson used his Twitter account to falsely imply that 1AP and top members were ‘involved in the January 6 insurrection, committed Federal crimes… or otherwise engaged or participated in criminal, dishonest, deceptive, immoral, unethical, unprofessional or improper conduct.’
The lawsuit insists that 1AP and its founder did not ‘aid and abet in insurrection or sedition.’ The group further claims that ‘1AP never planned or schemed with Oath Keepers, Stop the Steal, 3 Percenters, or any other group.’ The suits insist of Lewis, ‘He did not run, enter or participate in the activities of any “war room.”’
In a filing that seeks to have the case dismissed, Abramson claimed his tweets about the First Amendment Praetorian were ‘First Amendment protected speech.’”
You were exposing tfg and his corruption before he was on anyone else’s radar. Thank you for all your hard work in seeking the truth.
Extremely impressed.
Not at all surprised.
You're the greatest, Seth.
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