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Amy Mek

American activist and social media influencer

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Amy Mekelburg (born ), known online as Amy Mek, is an American anti-Muslim activist and social media influencer. Mekelburg founded the RAIR Foundation, a right-wing platform centered on topics such as immigration, Islam, left-wing politics, and globalism. Her full identity was not known until she was exposed, by some accounts doxxed, by HuffPost journalist Luke O'Brien in 2018, at a time when she had amassed over 200,000 followers.

Background Mekelburg is Jewish. and NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian of being a bot account, although she had been interviewed in a New York Times article about women who supported Donald Trump in 2016.

She also founded the Resistance Against Islamic Radicals (RAIR) organization to advance her views, The organization was later renamed to Rise Align Ignite Reclaim, or RAIR Foundation, with Chris Gaubatz as its president. The group was described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.

Mekelburg had her identity revealed in 2018 by HuffPost journalist Luke O'Brien, which sparked a controversy. Following O'Brien's actions, he himself and his colleagues were also doxxed and in turn received widespread online threats, as the story was promoted on 4chan and by figures such as Jack Posobiec and Mike Cernovich. The journalism ethics of revealing Mek's and her family's identities have been debated and contested. Media Matters for America claimed the incident did not constitute doxxing, since O'Brien did not provide a phone number, address or email address for her, and since she uses a real photo and similar name to her real name online.

Mekelburg has later been active publishing videos exposing "the truth" about Islam, She received a blue checkmark for her Twitter account in 2022, following the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. In 2023, Elon Musk personally responded to a post by Mekelburg showing a video of a Muslim imam who promoted jihad in France which the imam said would make it an Islamic country, with "He is right".

In April 2025, fact-checking organization FakeReporter reported that Mekelburg was one of 30 prominent Twitter accounts promoting content from Gazawood, an Israeli Twitter account which attempts to discredit Palestinians by claiming they are exaggerating or faking their casualties.

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University of Rhode Island
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Amy Mekelburg

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