"Pedophile Activism" hoaxes - Revision history

Jim Burton: /* Misquotes and Upscaling */

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Misquotes and Upscaling

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	In some instances, real events have been taken out of context, as per various stories concerning the deeply [[pedophobia\|pedophobic]] [[United Nations]] and their supposed endorsement of "pedophilia". In the 20s, individuals such as U.S. Rep. Katie Porter and Las Vegas Commissioner, Tick Segerblom were attacked by [[Conspiratorialism\|conspiracy theorists]] for making comments that could be misquoted.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N33613P/ U.S. Rep. Katie Porter did not say pedophilia was an ‘identity’], and [https://nationalfile.com/video-openly-communist-las-vegas-commissioner-admitted-to-being-a-minor-attracted-person/ Video: Openly Communist Las Vegas Commissioner Admitted to Being a ‘Minor Attracted Person’]</ref>		In some instances, real events have been taken out of context, as per various stories concerning the deeply [[pedophobia\|pedophobic]] [[United Nations]] and their supposed endorsement of "pedophilia". In the 20s, individuals such as U.S. Rep. Katie Porter and Las Vegas Commissioner, Tick Segerblom were attacked by [[Conspiratorialism\|conspiracy theorists]] for making comments that could be misquoted.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N33613P/ U.S. Rep. Katie Porter did not say pedophilia was an ‘identity’], and [https://nationalfile.com/video-openly-communist-las-vegas-commissioner-admitted-to-being-a-minor-attracted-person/ Video: Openly Communist Las Vegas Commissioner Admitted to Being a ‘Minor Attracted Person’]</ref>

	Upscaling/misattribution is another common method, typically used by low follower-count (<1.5m) influencers of the right-tendency who face a low risk-reward within the fake-news ecosystem. Usually, organizations such as the UN, WEF and the WHO are the target; for example a Dutch sex-education film was misattributed to the WHO via x.com in 2026, by the serial propagandist '''@BGatesIsaPyscho''' (without fact-checking or community note).<ref>[https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/2051223089023696979 Thread by BGatesIsaPyscho]</ref> The website The People's Voice (formerly NewsPunch) frequently publishes such stories about the normalization of pedophilia by "international elites".		Upscaling/misattribution is another common method, typically used by low follower-count (<1.5m) influencers of the right-tendency who face a low risk-reward within the fake-news ecosystem. Usually, organizations such as the UN, WEF and the WHO are the target; for example a Dutch sex-education film was misattributed to the WHO via x.com in 2026, by the serial propagandist '''@BGatesIsaPyscho''' (without fact-checking or community note).<ref>[https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/2051223089023696979 Thread by BGatesIsaPyscho]</ref> The fake-news website ''The People's Voice'' (formerly ''NewsPunch'') frequently publishes such stories about the normalization of pedophilia by "international elites".

	===Doxxing and defaming by impersonation===		===Doxxing and defaming by impersonation===

Jim Burton: /* Misquotes */

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Misquotes

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	Particular to the social media era, Newgon has witnessed a tendency to overemphasize the present importance of first-wave organizations and claim they are still active. While this has happened in the case of [[Ipce]] and PIE, it is more notable and memetic in [[NAMBLA]]'s example. Such organizations no longer meet, no longer carry on the communications necessary to be deemed organizations, and are typically only remembered via websites maintained by older ex-members, many of whom have age-related impairments and reduced input. In NAMBLA's case, octagenarean [[Peter Melzer]] died in 2024, leaving the website dormant after repeated vain attempts by right-wing con-artists to present his organization as an active part of the left-wing civil rights ecosystem.		Particular to the social media era, Newgon has witnessed a tendency to overemphasize the present importance of first-wave organizations and claim they are still active. While this has happened in the case of [[Ipce]] and PIE, it is more notable and memetic in [[NAMBLA]]'s example. Such organizations no longer meet, no longer carry on the communications necessary to be deemed organizations, and are typically only remembered via websites maintained by older ex-members, many of whom have age-related impairments and reduced input. In NAMBLA's case, octagenarean [[Peter Melzer]] died in 2024, leaving the website dormant after repeated vain attempts by right-wing con-artists to present his organization as an active part of the left-wing civil rights ecosystem.

	===Misquotes===		===Misquotes and Upscaling===

	In some instances, real events have been taken out of context, as per various stories concerning the deeply [[pedophobia\|pedophobic]] [[United Nations]] and their supposed endorsement of "pedophilia". In the 20s, individuals such as U.S. Rep. Katie Porter and Las Vegas Commissioner, Tick Segerblom were attacked by [[Conspiratorialism\|conspiracy theorists]] for making comments that could be misquoted.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N33613P/ U.S. Rep. Katie Porter did not say pedophilia was an ‘identity’], and [https://nationalfile.com/video-openly-communist-las-vegas-commissioner-admitted-to-being-a-minor-attracted-person/ Video: Openly Communist Las Vegas Commissioner Admitted to Being a ‘Minor Attracted Person’]</ref>		In some instances, real events have been taken out of context, as per various stories concerning the deeply [[pedophobia\|pedophobic]] [[United Nations]] and their supposed endorsement of "pedophilia". In the 20s, individuals such as U.S. Rep. Katie Porter and Las Vegas Commissioner, Tick Segerblom were attacked by [[Conspiratorialism\|conspiracy theorists]] for making comments that could be misquoted.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N33613P/ U.S. Rep. Katie Porter did not say pedophilia was an ‘identity’], and [https://nationalfile.com/video-openly-communist-las-vegas-commissioner-admitted-to-being-a-minor-attracted-person/ Video: Openly Communist Las Vegas Commissioner Admitted to Being a ‘Minor Attracted Person’]</ref>

			Upscaling/misattribution is another common method, typically used by low follower-count (<1.5m) influencers of the right-tendency who face a low risk-reward within the fake-news ecosystem. Usually, organizations such as the UN, WEF and the WHO are the target; for example a Dutch sex-education film was misattributed to the WHO via x.com in 2026, by the serial propagandist '''@BGatesIsaPyscho''' (without fact-checking or community note).<ref>[https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/2051223089023696979 Thread by BGatesIsaPyscho]</ref> The website The People's Voice (formerly NewsPunch) frequently publishes such stories about the normalization of pedophilia by "international elites".

	===Doxxing and defaming by impersonation===		===Doxxing and defaming by impersonation===

Jim Burton: /* Overemphasizing defunct organizations */

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Overemphasizing defunct organizations

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	===Overemphasizing defunct organizations===		===Overemphasizing defunct organizations===

	Particular to the social media era, Newgon has witnessed a tendency to overemphasize the present importance of first-wave organizations and claim they are still active. While this has happened in the case of [[Ipce]] and PIE, it is more notable and memetic in [[NAMBLA]]'s example. Such organizations no longer meet, no longer carry on the communications necessary to be deemed organizations, and are typically only remembered via websites maintained by older ex-members, many of whom have age-related impairments and reduced input. In NAMBLA's case, octagenarean [[Peter Melzer]] died in 2024, leaving the website dormant.		Particular to the social media era, Newgon has witnessed a tendency to overemphasize the present importance of first-wave organizations and claim they are still active. While this has happened in the case of [[Ipce]] and PIE, it is more notable and memetic in [[NAMBLA]]'s example. Such organizations no longer meet, no longer carry on the communications necessary to be deemed organizations, and are typically only remembered via websites maintained by older ex-members, many of whom have age-related impairments and reduced input. In NAMBLA's case, octagenarean [[Peter Melzer]] died in 2024, leaving the website dormant after repeated vain attempts by right-wing con-artists to present his organization as an active part of the left-wing civil rights ecosystem.

	===Misquotes===		===Misquotes===

Jim Burton: /* Fake demonstrations */

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Fake demonstrations

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	The alt-right has also framed student protesters as "pedophiles", convincing even Donald Trump Jr. of the hoax's veracity. Mike Cernovich, an alt-right personality, arrived at Columbia University in October 2017, to give a speech to the school’s College Republicans club. But when students protested outside the event, trolls posed in front of them with a banner promoting [[NAMBLA]]. Cernovich and other alt-right figures quickly copied a journalist’s picture of the sign and tweeted it as evidence.<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/alt-right-frames-protesters-as-pedophiles-with-fake-nambla-sign Daily Beast]</ref>		The alt-right has also framed student protesters as "pedophiles", convincing even Donald Trump Jr. of the hoax's veracity. Mike Cernovich, an alt-right personality, arrived at Columbia University in October 2017, to give a speech to the school’s College Republicans club. But when students protested outside the event, trolls posed in front of them with a banner promoting the almost operationally defunct [[NAMBLA]]. Cernovich and other alt-right figures quickly copied a journalist’s picture of the sign and tweeted it as evidence.<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/alt-right-frames-protesters-as-pedophiles-with-fake-nambla-sign Daily Beast]</ref>

	===Overemphasizing defunct organizations===		===Overemphasizing defunct organizations===

Jim Burton: /* LGBTP and HeartProgress */

2026-05-08T20:52:25Z

LGBTP and HeartProgress

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	===LGBTP and HeartProgress===		===LGBTP and HeartProgress===

	'''LGBTP''', also known as '''HeartProgress''' or '''LoveIsAgeless''', is a fake outrage campaign manufactured by '''4chan''''s /pol/. The campaign added "P" (to represent "[[Minor attracted neologisms\|pedosexuals]]") to the LGBT initialism (not be confused with "LGBTP" to include pansexuals). Characteristically, '''Snopes.com''' have used this example to promote their own misinformation about the LGBTQ+ movement, claiming, hilariously that "[never] has [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity\|any LGBT group condoned pedophilia]]".<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LGBTP RationalWiki]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211101164919/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/maps-pride-flag/ Snopes (erroneous) FC], now replaced with more accurate piece at original address</ref> In 2022, radical anti-trans activist [[Wikipedia:Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull\|Kellie-Jay Keen]] circulated a hoax transgender advocacy blog in the style of Heartprogress, flaunting a display of solidarity ~~for~~ [[NAMBLA]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20221031183227/https://twitter.com/StandingforXX/status/1587120141384425472 Keen Transgender Hoax]</ref>		'''LGBTP''', also known as '''HeartProgress''' or '''LoveIsAgeless''', is a fake outrage campaign manufactured by '''4chan''''s /pol/. The campaign added "P" (to represent "[[Minor attracted neologisms\|pedosexuals]]") to the LGBT initialism (not be confused with "LGBTP" to include pansexuals). Characteristically, '''Snopes.com''' have used this example to promote their own misinformation about the LGBTQ+ movement, claiming, hilariously that "[never] has [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity\|any LGBT group condoned pedophilia]]".<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LGBTP RationalWiki]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211101164919/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/maps-pride-flag/ Snopes (erroneous) FC], now replaced with more accurate piece at original address</ref> In 2022, radical anti-trans activist [[Wikipedia:Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull\|Kellie-Jay Keen]] circulated a hoax transgender advocacy blog in the style of Heartprogress, flaunting a display of solidarity with the already operationally defunct [[NAMBLA]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20221031183227/https://twitter.com/StandingforXX/status/1587120141384425472 Keen Transgender Hoax]</ref>

	===Fake demonstrations===		===Fake demonstrations===

Jim Burton at 20:51, 8 May 2026

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	===LGBTP and HeartProgress===		===LGBTP and HeartProgress===

	'''LGBTP''', also known as '''HeartProgress''' or '''LoveIsAgeless''', is a fake outrage campaign manufactured by '''4chan''''s /pol/. The campaign added "P" (to represent "[[Minor attracted neologisms\|pedosexuals]]") to the LGBT ~~abbreviation~~ (not be confused with "LGBTP" to include pansexuals). Characteristically, '''Snopes.com''' have used this example to promote their own misinformation about the LGBTQ+ movement, claiming, hilariously that "[never] has [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity\|any LGBT group condoned pedophilia]]".<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LGBTP RationalWiki]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211101164919/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/maps-pride-flag/ Snopes (erroneous) FC], now replaced with more accurate piece at original address</ref> In 2022, radical anti-trans activist [[Wikipedia:Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull\|Kellie-Jay Keen]] circulated a hoax transgender advocacy blog in the style of Heartprogress, flaunting a display of solidarity for [[NAMBLA]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20221031183227/https://twitter.com/StandingforXX/status/1587120141384425472 Keen Transgender Hoax]</ref>		'''LGBTP''', also known as '''HeartProgress''' or '''LoveIsAgeless''', is a fake outrage campaign manufactured by '''4chan''''s /pol/. The campaign added "P" (to represent "[[Minor attracted neologisms\|pedosexuals]]") to the LGBT initialism (not be confused with "LGBTP" to include pansexuals). Characteristically, '''Snopes.com''' have used this example to promote their own misinformation about the LGBTQ+ movement, claiming, hilariously that "[never] has [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity\|any LGBT group condoned pedophilia]]".<ref>[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LGBTP RationalWiki]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211101164919/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/maps-pride-flag/ Snopes (erroneous) FC], now replaced with more accurate piece at original address</ref> In 2022, radical anti-trans activist [[Wikipedia:Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull\|Kellie-Jay Keen]] circulated a hoax transgender advocacy blog in the style of Heartprogress, flaunting a display of solidarity for [[NAMBLA]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20221031183227/https://twitter.com/StandingforXX/status/1587120141384425472 Keen Transgender Hoax]</ref>

	===Fake demonstrations===		===Fake demonstrations===

Jim Burton: /* Overemphasizing defunct organizations */

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Overemphasizing defunct organizations

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	===Overemphasizing defunct organizations===		===Overemphasizing defunct organizations===

	Particular to the social media era, Newgon has witnessed a tendency to overemphasize the present importance of first-wave organizations and claim they are still active. While this has happened in the case of [[Ipce]] and PIE, it is more notable and memetic in [[NAMBLA]]'s example. Such organizations no longer meet, no longer carry on the communications necessary to be deemed organizations, and are typically only remembered via websites maintained by older ex-members, many of whom have age-related impairments and reduced input. In NAMBLA's case, ~~nonagenarean~~ [[Peter Melzer]] died in 2024, leaving the website dormant.		Particular to the social media era, Newgon has witnessed a tendency to overemphasize the present importance of first-wave organizations and claim they are still active. While this has happened in the case of [[Ipce]] and PIE, it is more notable and memetic in [[NAMBLA]]'s example. Such organizations no longer meet, no longer carry on the communications necessary to be deemed organizations, and are typically only remembered via websites maintained by older ex-members, many of whom have age-related impairments and reduced input. In NAMBLA's case, octagenarean [[Peter Melzer]] died in 2024, leaving the website dormant.

	===Misquotes===		===Misquotes===

Jim Burton: /* Fake demonstrations */

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Fake demonstrations

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	The alt-right has also framed student protesters as "pedophiles", convincing even Donald Trump Jr. of the hoax's veracity. Mike Cernovich, an alt-right personality, arrived at Columbia University in October 2017, to give a speech to the school’s College Republicans club. But when students protested outside the event, trolls posed in front of them with a banner promoting [[NAMBLA]]. Cernovich and other alt-right figures quickly copied a journalist’s picture of the sign and tweeted it as evidence.<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/alt-right-frames-protesters-as-pedophiles-with-fake-nambla-sign Daily Beast]</ref>		The alt-right has also framed student protesters as "pedophiles", convincing even Donald Trump Jr. of the hoax's veracity. Mike Cernovich, an alt-right personality, arrived at Columbia University in October 2017, to give a speech to the school’s College Republicans club. But when students protested outside the event, trolls posed in front of them with a banner promoting [[NAMBLA]]. Cernovich and other alt-right figures quickly copied a journalist’s picture of the sign and tweeted it as evidence.<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/alt-right-frames-protesters-as-pedophiles-with-fake-nambla-sign Daily Beast]</ref>

			===Overemphasizing defunct organizations===

			Particular to the social media era, Newgon has witnessed a tendency to overemphasize the present importance of first-wave organizations and claim they are still active. While this has happened in the case of [[Ipce]] and PIE, it is more notable and memetic in [[NAMBLA]]'s example. Such organizations no longer meet, no longer carry on the communications necessary to be deemed organizations, and are typically only remembered via websites maintained by older ex-members, many of whom have age-related impairments and reduced input. In NAMBLA's case, nonagenarean [[Peter Melzer]] died in 2024, leaving the website dormant.

	===Misquotes===		===Misquotes===

Jim Burton at 16:37, 21 March 2025

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	Due to the highly speculative and paranoid culture of [[anti]]-pedophile posturing, it is perhaps unsurprising that a number of '''hoax [[pedophilia]] organizations''' have been put forward by scaremongers and trolls. While it is true that [[MAP Movement\|some activism took place under the pedophile banner]] in the 1970s and 80s, this was during a period where there existed far less of a stigma on the term. While the term "pedophile" was often used, most ~~of the~~ members of such organizations were technically [[hebephilia\|hebephiles]] - as in the case of [[NAMBLA]] and [[Paedophile Information Exchange]] (see [[Media:PIEAOA.png\|surveys of members]]).		Due to the highly speculative and paranoid culture of [[anti]]-pedophile posturing, it is perhaps unsurprising that a number of '''hoax [[pedophilia]] organizations''' have been put forward by scaremongers and trolls. While it is true that [[MAP Movement\|some activism took place under the pedophile banner]] in the 1970s and 80s, this was during a period where there existed far less of a stigma on the term. While the term "pedophile" was often used, most members of such organizations were technically [[hebephilia\|hebephiles]] - as in the case of [[NAMBLA]] and [[Paedophile Information Exchange]] (see [[Media:PIEAOA.png\|surveys of members]]).

	"Pedophile Activist" hoax groups range from failed ideas and folded websites, rejected proposals, to utter contrivances from boards such as '''4chan'''.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/posing-gay-men-twitter-troll-goes-viral-attempts-falsely-tie-n954721 Posing as gay men on Twitter, a troll goes viral with attempts to falsely tie the LGBTQ community to pedophilia], re. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210731093755/https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/resistance-member-says-pedophilia-sexual-orientation-claims-bigotry]</ref> As conservative [[grooming]] panic has spread in the 2020s, the LGBTQ+ community and adjacent people have even alleged Russian propaganda to deflect these attempts.<ref>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmvka/libsoftiktok-kremlin-boost-anti-lgbtq-disinformation How LibsOfTikTok Is Helping the Kremlin Boost Anti-LGBTQ Disinformation - Vice]</ref><ref>[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/libsoftiktok-linked-russian-disinformation-campaign-stir-outrage-lgbtq-rights/ LibsOfTikTok linked to Russian disinformation campaign to stir outrage over LGBTQ rights - LGBTQNation]</ref> Much earlier, fringe conservative groups had produced a list of hoaxes, which were nevertheless described as "''Pro Paedophilia Movement [...] A Few Of The More Notorious And Better-Known Boy-Love/Girl-Love Or Paedophile Associations And Organisation Web Sites''".<ref name=naffoundation>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080514174320/http://naffoundation.org/Pedophilia.htm#Pro-pedophilia Naffoundation list of orgs]</ref> Oftentimes, these hoaxes are based on a grain of truth, and are perpetuated by right-wing organizations/trolls who are attempting to "own the libs" by promoting the idea that the LGBTQ+ community are seeking to [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity\|realign with MAPs]] after distancing them in the 1990s.		"Pedophile Activist" hoax groups range from failed ideas and folded websites, rejected proposals, to utter contrivances from boards such as '''4chan'''.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/posing-gay-men-twitter-troll-goes-viral-attempts-falsely-tie-n954721 Posing as gay men on Twitter, a troll goes viral with attempts to falsely tie the LGBTQ community to pedophilia], re. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210731093755/https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/resistance-member-says-pedophilia-sexual-orientation-claims-bigotry]</ref> As conservative [[grooming]] panic has spread in the 2020s, the LGBTQ+ community and adjacent people have even alleged Russian propaganda to deflect these attempts.<ref>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmvka/libsoftiktok-kremlin-boost-anti-lgbtq-disinformation How LibsOfTikTok Is Helping the Kremlin Boost Anti-LGBTQ Disinformation - Vice]</ref><ref>[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/libsoftiktok-linked-russian-disinformation-campaign-stir-outrage-lgbtq-rights/ LibsOfTikTok linked to Russian disinformation campaign to stir outrage over LGBTQ rights - LGBTQNation]</ref> Much earlier, fringe conservative groups had produced a list of hoaxes, which were nevertheless described as "''Pro Paedophilia Movement [...] A Few Of The More Notorious And Better-Known Boy-Love/Girl-Love Or Paedophile Associations And Organisation Web Sites''".<ref name=naffoundation>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080514174320/http://naffoundation.org/Pedophilia.htm#Pro-pedophilia Naffoundation list of orgs]</ref> Oftentimes, these hoaxes are based on a grain of truth, and are perpetuated by right-wing organizations/trolls who are attempting to "own the libs" by promoting the idea that the LGBTQ+ community are seeking to [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity\|realign with MAPs]] after distancing them in the 1990s.

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2025-01-07T22:02:24Z

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	*Pedophile Associates of America.<ref>[https://reduxx.info/pro-pedophile-charity-head-arrested-for-child-sexual-abuse-images/ Reduxx - Andrew Zearley]</ref> This was a tax-exempt charity set up by what appears to be a mentally disturbed individual/sex offender who was later convicted for extreme pornography. It was unheard of, and carried out no day-to-day activities associated with the [[MAP Movement]].		*Pedophile Associates of America.<ref>[https://reduxx.info/pro-pedophile-charity-head-arrested-for-child-sexual-abuse-images/ Reduxx - Andrew Zearley]</ref> This was a tax-exempt charity set up by what appears to be a mentally disturbed individual/sex offender who was later convicted for extreme pornography. It was unheard of, and carried out no day-to-day activities associated with the [[MAP Movement]].
	*Indian National Man Boy Congress Party (1985-2008) - A hoax that originated on Wikipedia, being pushed for half a decade behind false citations in a now deleted article.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20150518021830/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophile_press Wikipedia's ''Indian National Man Boy Congress Party'' Hoax, which developed a life of its own after being taken over by "lesser" Wikis.]</ref> Now said by various Wikis to have run its own magazine, the "Herald". No record of this organization exists, and none of the cited papers even mentioned it.		*Indian National Man Boy Congress Party (1985-2008) - A hoax that originated on Wikipedia, being pushed for half a decade behind false citations in a now deleted article.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20150518021830/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophile_press Wikipedia's ''Indian National Man Boy Congress Party'' Hoax, which developed a life of its own after being taken over by "lesser" Wikis.]</ref> Now said by various Wikis to have run its own magazine, the "Herald". No record of this organization exists, and none of the cited papers even mentioned it.
			*Various social media accounts attempting to portray American Democrats for Minor Attracted People, as per [[Bluesky pedophilia controversy]].

	===Disputed, first-wave fakes===		===Disputed, first-wave fakes===

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	Due to the highly speculative and paranoid culture of [[anti]]-pedophile posturing, it is perhaps unsurprising that a number of '''hoax [[pedophilia]] organizations''' have been put forward by scaremongers and trolls. While it is true that [[MAP Movement\|some activism took place under the pedophile banner]] in the 1970s and 80s, this was during a period where there existed far less of a stigma on the term. While the term "pedophile" was often used, most ~~of the~~ members of such organizations were technically [[hebephilia\|hebephiles]] - as in the case of [[NAMBLA]] and [[Paedophile Information Exchange]] (see [[Media:PIEAOA.png\|surveys of members]]).		Due to the highly speculative and paranoid culture of [[anti]]-pedophile posturing, it is perhaps unsurprising that a number of '''hoax [[pedophilia]] organizations''' have been put forward by scaremongers and trolls. While it is true that [[MAP Movement\|some activism took place under the pedophile banner]] in the 1970s and 80s, this was during a period where there existed far less of a stigma on the term. While the term "pedophile" was often used, most members of such organizations were technically [[hebephilia\|hebephiles]] - as in the case of [[NAMBLA]] and [[Paedophile Information Exchange]] (see [[Media:PIEAOA.png\|surveys of members]]).

	"Pedophile Activist" hoax groups range from failed ideas and folded websites, rejected proposals, to utter contrivances from boards such as '''4chan'''.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/posing-gay-men-twitter-troll-goes-viral-attempts-falsely-tie-n954721 Posing as gay men on Twitter, a troll goes viral with attempts to falsely tie the LGBTQ community to pedophilia], re. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210731093755/https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/resistance-member-says-pedophilia-sexual-orientation-claims-bigotry]</ref> As conservative [[grooming]] panic has spread in the 2020s, the LGBTQ+ community and adjacent people have even alleged Russian propaganda to deflect these attempts.<ref>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmvka/libsoftiktok-kremlin-boost-anti-lgbtq-disinformation How LibsOfTikTok Is Helping the Kremlin Boost Anti-LGBTQ Disinformation - Vice]</ref><ref>[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/libsoftiktok-linked-russian-disinformation-campaign-stir-outrage-lgbtq-rights/ LibsOfTikTok linked to Russian disinformation campaign to stir outrage over LGBTQ rights - LGBTQNation]</ref> Much earlier, fringe conservative groups had produced a list of hoaxes, which were nevertheless described as "''Pro Paedophilia Movement [...] A Few Of The More Notorious And Better-Known Boy-Love/Girl-Love Or Paedophile Associations And Organisation Web Sites''".<ref name=naffoundation>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080514174320/http://naffoundation.org/Pedophilia.htm#Pro-pedophilia Naffoundation list of orgs]</ref> Oftentimes, these hoaxes are based on a grain of truth, and are perpetuated by right-wing organizations/trolls who are attempting to "own the libs" by promoting the idea that the LGBTQ+ community are seeking to [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity\|realign with MAPs]] after distancing them in the 1990s.		"Pedophile Activist" hoax groups range from failed ideas and folded websites, rejected proposals, to utter contrivances from boards such as '''4chan'''.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/posing-gay-men-twitter-troll-goes-viral-attempts-falsely-tie-n954721 Posing as gay men on Twitter, a troll goes viral with attempts to falsely tie the LGBTQ community to pedophilia], re. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210731093755/https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/resistance-member-says-pedophilia-sexual-orientation-claims-bigotry]</ref> As conservative [[grooming]] panic has spread in the 2020s, the LGBTQ+ community and adjacent people have even alleged Russian propaganda to deflect these attempts.<ref>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmvka/libsoftiktok-kremlin-boost-anti-lgbtq-disinformation How LibsOfTikTok Is Helping the Kremlin Boost Anti-LGBTQ Disinformation - Vice]</ref><ref>[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/libsoftiktok-linked-russian-disinformation-campaign-stir-outrage-lgbtq-rights/ LibsOfTikTok linked to Russian disinformation campaign to stir outrage over LGBTQ rights - LGBTQNation]</ref> Much earlier, fringe conservative groups had produced a list of hoaxes, which were nevertheless described as "''Pro Paedophilia Movement [...] A Few Of The More Notorious And Better-Known Boy-Love/Girl-Love Or Paedophile Associations And Organisation Web Sites''".<ref name=naffoundation>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080514174320/http://naffoundation.org/Pedophilia.htm#Pro-pedophilia Naffoundation list of orgs]</ref> Oftentimes, these hoaxes are based on a grain of truth, and are perpetuated by right-wing organizations/trolls who are attempting to "own the libs" by promoting the idea that the LGBTQ+ community are seeking to [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity\|realign with MAPs]] after distancing them in the 1990s.