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Biography
Ryan Saavedra is a writer for The Daily Wire. He has been described as influential on Facebook and Twitter.
Career
In early 2017, he wrote for the far-right conspiracy website Gateway Pundit. Later in 2017, he became editor and writer for Breitbart News. While at Breitbart News, he focused primarily on stories about crimes by Latino immigrants. He also promoted Murder of Seth Rich conspiracy theories for Breitbart News.
In 2017, after a London terrorist attack by Islamist terrorists, he wrote, "People think I’m kidding when I say this but the crusades need to come back." He left Breitbart News shortly thereafter.
Later in 2017, he became contributor to both the Daily Caller and Daily Wire. He was accused of plagiarism (posting slightly altered versions of the same stories to both websites) and left the Daily Caller shortly thereafter. He has subsequently been accused by other conservative writers of plagiarizing both tweets and stories.
He falsely claimed in 2018 that Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg used a Nazi salute, and has published misleadingly edited videos to suggest former Attorney General Eric Holder and former Vice President Joe Biden supported the use of violence in politics.