EXCLUSIVE: Brutalist.Press is a Russian website created by software developer Alex Antonov.

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The website began publishing on 25th August 2016 – 2 months and 13 days before the US 2016 election. and began immediately collating and publishing negative articles about candidate Clinton. Submissions include (but are not limited to):

Brutalist is self-described as a “feminist free social network”. But functions more as an article aggregator. Though the website allows users to submit their own content, most submissions follow a methodology:

The modus operandi of the website appears not to be fabricating content. But rather to garner content from other disreputable or hyperpartisan websites such as TheDuran.com, Counterpunch.org, VoltaireNet.org, etc. and to re-publish them unattributed.

The affiliated Twitter account '@BrutalistPress' seemingly automatically tweets content published to the website. Which allows users to share unfounded and sometimes patently false conspiracy theories and memes to its 42.9K followers.