An advertisement for a Qanon channel on a prominent neo-Nazi Telegram channel with over 22,000 subscribers. Please note that the neo-Nazi channel has previously denounced Qanon. The ad was likely either not chosen or was accepted due to financial opportunity rather than ideology. Screenshot taken on May 9.
Active Club Movement Banishes East Coast Chapter
On May 6, an Active Club chapter in Southern California, via their Telegram channel, banished a chapter of the movement from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, stating that the latter group was led by an individual who testified against a fellow white supremacist and at one point had been an anti-fascist activist. The post stated that “Working with the system is one of the unforgivable crimes against our efforts” and that the Mid-Atlantic region chapter would no longer be recognized as part of the movement, stating that group members should join a different Pennsylvania club. The main Active Club Telegram channel shared the message.
The Mid-Atlantic Active Club chapter stated on their Telegram channel that the leader in question was no longer a member and that they were closely linked to local White Lives Matter (WLM) activity. On May 8, the main WLM Telegram channel, which has over 20,000 followers, also announced that they had banished the individual in question.
Voice of Khorasan Issue 35 Released
On May 7, the pro-ISIS al-Azaim Media propaganda group released issue 35 of the English language web magazine Voice of Khorasan. The web magazine included a wallet for sending the privacy cryptocurrency Monero and posted an image encouraging terrorist attacks on soccer stadiums in the German cities of Berlin, Munich, and Dortmund.
The first article condemned the Taliban for not implementing religious law, scrutinizing punishments that the author described as human-made and not religiously mandated. Other articles described the confrontation between Israel and Iran as a fight between siblings, condemned the Syrian group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and encouraged abandoning comfort. Issue 35 also contained the third part in a series on operations security, providing tips for traveling and encouraging total obedience to ISIS leaders and ISIS-endorsed individuals.
Infographics in the web magazine condemned countries that have opened diplomatic or economic relations with the Taliban, specifically criticized the Taliban for their connection to China despite the latter’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims, and called for readers to fight.
CEP reported four uploads of the web magazine to the Internet Archive, which quickly removed them.