Alex Rosen (also known under his online aliases Chet Goldstein and Gordon Flowers) is the founder of Houston-based vigilante organization Predator Poachers, which conducts sting operations on adults who seek sexual activities with minors.
If the target continues to message the account, the chat is then usually followed by a staged, real-life meeting with the suspect.
Upon being interviewed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the topic in 2019, some law-enforcement officers stated that the phenomenon of predator hunters can create a new form of mob justice and engineer chaotic situations that should be left to professionals.
The visit happened after Hotez declined to debate presidential candidate and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
Later that day, Hotez stated on social media that he was "stalked in front of my home by a couple of antivaxers taunting me to debate RFK Jr."[12][13] Rosen has made negative statements against LGBT and transgender people.
[2] In a social-media post published prior to March 2020, Rosen called his followers to help cancel a drag queen story hour event at an Idaho library.
[4] In 2019, Rosen used a racial slur on video, an event that he later confirmed in a 2023 interview with the Evansville Courier & Press.
In the interview, in which the news organization asked him about his previous use of racial slurs, Rosen stated that he is Jewish and that "I said it, but I'm not apologizing for it.
In a prank call to a Black Lives Matter hotline, he used multiple homophobic and racist slurs.