Hey! I'm pretty low on sleep right now, so this is just going to be a cursory vibe check of Marcus.
He's not really in the tech/rationalist sphere. From a cursory skim, most of what he writes seems to be from a cultural/investigative angle, so that's probably the approach he's going to be taking. I think this could potentially be the most similar to how he'd cover the Ziz story? Again, I stress, sleep deprived vibe check.
It does seem like, just judging from what I've read, he does his due dilligence, and mostly gets his stories from interviewing people involved.
He also was on TrueAnon, a left-wing podcast, to talk about his report on nitrous oxide abuse. TrueAnon was initially a podcast about the Jeffery Epstein case, hence the name, but then expanded its scope to cover a lot of other weird shit. I count being on TrueAnon as a point in his favor, from a purely personal angle, because I think that Brace Belden is an absolute legend. He's a Chapo/Cumtown-adjacent shitposter/podcaster who volunteered for the YPG, a left-wing Kurdish militia in Iraq and Syria that fought ISIS, and he would literally shitpost from his account @PISSPIGGRANDDAD while shooting at ISIS fighters. Outside of that, he's done a bunch of other random stuff, like appearing on an official Shen Yung broadcast as his alter ego Racial Jake. I fuck with him heavy, but I'm not saying that means that you have to too.
That's just the initial vibe check. Do with this info what you will. Personally, I wouldn't be too paranoid about talking to him, since a lot of the info you've collected is public at this point. I can spend a bit more time looking into him tomorrow, if you want.
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