For all the legacy media’s obsessive warnings about far-right extremist Nick Fuentes, it has shown far less interest in confronting a dangerous left-wing counterpart: Hasan Piker.

The New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg has called Fuentes, a 27-year-old online influencer, a “Hitler-loving white nationalist.” The Times has run ominous headlines like “Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’ ” and “Nick Fuentes: A White Nationalist Problem for the Right.”

The New Yorker’s Jay Caspian Kang warns that Fuentes is “not just another alt-right boogeyman” and that the “rise of the white-nationalist streamer should worry us even more than it already does.”

And The Washington Post recently opined about how Fuentes “spreads hate online – and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars.” 

Many of these hand-wringing pieces seek to tie Fuentes more broadly to the Republican Party and President Donald Trump’s MAGA base. 

Meanwhile, the news media largely ignores the rise of a similarly repugnant force on the left: Hasan Piker. Piker, 34, has more than 3 million followers and streams hours of political content each day on Twitch.

Piker is an anti-Zionist, capitalist-hating Marxist who appears far too........

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