A YouTuber who racked up hundreds of thousands of views pushing extreme conspiracy theories like QAnon, Pizzagate, and Flat Eartherism was arrested last week for allegedly threatening to massacre YouTube employees.
William Douglas, 35, was charged with cyberstalking and making threats after he was cuffed last Thursday by the FBI.
The threats came from a series of social media profiles where he ranted about fringe-right conspiracy theories and claimed YouTube was censoring him.
The blog Contemptor previously noted that shortly into one of his QAnon videos, a message popped onto Douglas’s screen: “Connected to Wi-Fi network #investigatepizzagate”.
But despite racking up more than 400,000 views on his videos in fewer than two years, Douglas claimed YouTube was censoring him.
Elsewhere, he accused YouTube of being a government-run organization and said he would establish a donut restaurant called “Revolutionary Donut” in California.
FBI agents soon traced his IP address to his Oregon home, and arrested him without incident outside a convenience store. »