BUSTED: Violent neo-Nazi steps down from CEO post at government-contracted surveillance company

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May 9, 2020

By Matthew Chapman

According to KUTV, Banjo CEO Damien Patton has resigned after reports surfaced of his past affiliation with white supremacist groups, and his involvement in a drive-by shooting of a synagogue two decades ago.

“According to a story by Matt Stroud of OneZero Media, Banjo CEO and co-founder Damien Patton, 47, pleaded guilty in 1992 for assisting a KKK leader in a drive-by shooting of a Jewish synagogue. It was a story initially reported by The Tennessean in 1992,” said the report. “More than 1,000 pages of court records, reviewed by OneZero, but not independently confirmed by 2News, show Patton was an active participant in white supremacist groups in his youth. Patton admitted to also participating in talks on white supremacy, where he advocated for the elimination of blacks and Jews.”

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Banjo, a Utah-based tech firm, has worked with the government to provide artificial intelligence systems that screen people for public safety agencies. It was referred to by Inc.’s Will Bourne as “the most influential social media company you’ve never heard of.” In recent years, Patton and the company have made boasts at major tech conferences that their algorithm allows them to “know things before anyone else.”

Following the investigations into Patton, the state of Utah has suspended Banjo’s contract.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/busted-violent-neo-nazi-steps-down-from-ceo-post-at-government-contracted-surveillance-company-after-being-outed/

[Voltaire2]

1. There is nothing much 'neo' about these nazi fucks.

They are just straight out nazis.

For those of use with parents and grandparents who fought and beat the fucking nazis last time, we apparently did not learn the lessons they tried to teach us. We've let the fascists back in, and it is going to be all hell to clear them out again.

[Karadeniz]

4. I, too, think it would be better to drop the neo-.

[SMC22307]

2. That's some seriously good investigative reporting.

One down, God knows how many more of these fucks to go...

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Keep peeling the onion

Utah,strong hunch there are more chosen ones yet to be uncovered.

[hedda_foil]

5. "... advocated for the elimination of blacks and Jews."

[Blue Owl]

6. To the klink with him

n/t

[sanatanadharma]

7. Renamed as the NowNazis

Simple! They are nazis, WW2 is past, there were nazis, this is now, the old nazis and sons are still 'now-nazis'.