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Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera) is an American film producer best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Godfather, and Chinatown and his hedonistic lifestyle and seven marriages. Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera) is an American film producer best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Godfather, and Chinatown, as well as his hedonistic lifestyle and seven marriages.

Evans has done reporting for the investigative reporting outlet Bellingcat between 2018 and 2021. He has reported on conflicts in Iraq, Ukraine, and Rojava, as well as on far-right extremists in the United States. In the late 2010s and early 2020s, Evans produced a variety of content about 8chan, an anonymous message board, as well as the Gamergate controversy movement, a movement he describes as largely organically generated, with some direction given by white supremacists and extremists with long experience in radicalizing people on internet forums.

Following the March 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, news outlets, including Rolling Stone, Vox, and The Atlantic, referenced Evans' warning about the nature of the shooter's manifesto. Evans argued that the manifesto was merely a red herring, full of references and memes meant to distract observers. Following the 2019 Poway synagogue shooting, Vox relied on Evans' work to explain how the shooter's manifesto again constituted a 74-page in-joke meant to radicalize other 4chan /pol/ users further.

In a 2020 Bellingcat article, Evans discussed the emergence and qualities of the boogaloo movement, a loose-knit group of individuals who express interest in fomenting American civil unrest. Evans says he became aware of the boogaloo movement when he observed members at the 2020 Virginia Citizens Defence League Lobby Day.

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