Milo Yiannopoulos’s grandiose promises of a Free Speech Week at U.C. Berkeley, the campus where his last visit ended in riots and destruction, supposedly involving right-wing media heavyweights like Steve Bannon and Ann Coulter, has been falling apart spectacularly over the past few weeks. High-profile speakers either mysteriously disappeared from the lineup, or publicly stated that they had never been invited in the first place. Berkeley and Yiannopoulos’s new media company, Milo Inc., got in public spats over whether paperwork had been filled out in time. And even the event’s participants were left in the dark over simple logistical issues, such as where they were staying or when they were getting there.

The Fyre Festival–esque confusion deepened on Friday, when members of the Berkeley Patriot told KQED that Free Speech Week was canceled, confirming numerous suspicions among the far right that the event was too disorganized to continue. One member of the student group told reporter John Sepulvado that the event had simply gotten out of control, and that they had asked the Berkeley administration if it could rescind the invitation to Milo Inc. Bryce Kasamoto, the event’s organizer, announced that the Berkeley Patriot has filed a complaint to the Department of Justice against Berkeley. He referred all media questions to the civil-rights law firm Melo and Sarsfield, which did not return requests for comment.

Mike Cernovich, one of the speakers for the event, was at the airport headed to Berkeley when the news of the event’s supposed cancellation broke. He told me that certain events were still planned, including a Saturday press conference and a march through campus on Sunday that was not affiliated with the Berkeley Patriot. “I’ll be there Saturday and Sunday,” he said, though he plans to go home shortly afterwards. Coulter, one of the megastars slated to speak, later confirmed to the Associated Press that she was not going.

The news of Free Speech’s latest problems did not surprise Lucian Wintrich, the White House correspondent for Gateway Pundit, who had been scheduled to speak and withdrew at the last minute. Wintrich, who spent most of his Periscope livestream criticizing Yiannopoulos on Thursday night, suggested that he realized that people had flown out to attend Free Speech Week, and was frantically putting together speeches and “stunts” for their benefit at the last minute. “I think it will be a very far cry from anything remotely as advertised,” he predicted.

When I spoke to Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof shortly after the announcement, he told me that the Berkeley Patriot had not told the administration that it canceled the event. He did not, however, seem surprised when I informed him that it filed a civil-rights complaint. “They’re well within their rights to do that,” he told me, but added that the university’s record would show that it had gone above and beyond to protect the Berkeley Patriot’s First Amendment rights. “In this regard, our actions speak as loud, if not louder, than our words. As we speak right now, we still are taking the steps that will likely generate costs of up to a million dollars.”

In a statement to KQED, Yiannopoulos’s spokesman Zachary LeCompte-Gobel said that he “couldn’t confirm” that Free Speech Week was canceled, but said that the Fyre Festival–esque implosion of its lineup would be “explained in the press conference” scheduled for Saturday on San Francisco Bay’s Treasure Island. According to an itinerary obtained by The Hive, Yiannopoulos will have a “contingency plan in the event of hostiles” in place.