Telegram And Chan Users Celebrate Five-Year Anniversary Of Emanuel AME Church
Shooting
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Extremist Content Online: Dylann Roof Glorified By White Supremacists On
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Telegram And Chan Users Celebrate Five-Year Anniversary Of Emanuel AME Church
Shooting
(New York, N.Y.) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the
methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms
to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, multiple white supremacist
Telegram channels and chan users celebrated the five year anniversary of the
shooting massacre committed by white supremacist Dylann Roof that left nine
dead in Charleston, South Carolina. In addition, CEP researchers located two
new ISIS Amaq news videos. Also, a Telegram channel was located claiming
affiliation to an alleged Brazilian Atomwaffen Division (AWD) group and a white
supremacist Telegram channel shared instructional information on manufacturing
9mm ammunition. Finally, a white supremacist user of an 8chan successor website
suggested individuals should commit false flag property attacks against local
politicians in an effort to turn them against anti-police brutality protests.
White Supremacists Celebrate Five Year Anniversary Of Massacre At Emanuel AME
Church In Charleston, South Carolina
On June 17, numerous white supremacist Telegram channels and chan users
celebrated the five year anniversary of the murder of nine people by white
supremacistDylann Roof <[link removed]>
at Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. Propaganda was spread on
Telegram, including Roof’s manifesto, and drawings and songs glorifying Roof
were viewed thousands of times by users. Users also shared Roof’s prison
address and encouraged followers to send him money in accordance with Bureau of
Prisons regulations. Users of a white supremacist 8chan successor site located
on the dark web praised Roof and encouraged additional violence.
In addition, a podcast dedicated to Roof released an almost two-hour long
episode on June 17. The podcasters opened by stating that the current protests
in the U.S would ultimately create a white backlash which would lead to “the
beginning of balkanization” and an eventual white supremacist victory. The
podcasters glorified Roof and his murder of nine people at Emanuel AME. One of
the hosts stated that white supremacist mass murderers were heroes and that
mass violence would continue, blaming Jews, people of color, and
non-supremacist whites for the violence. The podcast hosts operate a Telegram
channel which has approximately 1,800 subscribers. The podcast was spread on
Telegram and CatBox, which previously hosted several video files of the March
15, 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack.
ISIS Amaq Videos Located
CEP researchers located two Amaq videos the week of June 13 to June 19. The
first video was originally released on June 11 and showed ISIS terrorists
executing two men with rifles near Maiduguri in Nigeria, claiming they were a
police officer and a soldier. Links to the video were spread via the RocketChat
platform. The video was uploaded to at least eight websites: File.Fm,
Streamable, Pixel Drain, Top4top, Mediafire, the Microsoft One Drive, the
Internet Archive, and Mega.Nz. Approximately seven days after they were
uploaded, the video was still available on Mediafire and the Internet Archive.
The second video, released on June 16, claims to show ISIS fighters in Nigeria
attacking the village of Mungono. ISIS fighters can be seen firing mortars,
entering a village, and burning military vehicles. Links for the video were
spread on Hoop and RocketChat. The video was uploaded to at least 12 websites:
Mediafire, the Microsoft One Drive, the Internet Archive, Mega.Nz, File.Fm,
Tune.Pk, Yadi.Sk, Pixel Drain, Top4top, Streamable, Dropbox, and Mail.Ru.
Approximately two days later, the video was still available on five websites:
Mediafire, the Internet Archive, Tune.Pk, Top4top, and Mail.Ru.
ISIS Amaq video on Mail.Ru, approximately two days after it was uploaded. June
18, 2020.
Telegram Channel Claiming To Represent Atomwaffen Division Brazil Created
The week of June 13 to June 19, CEP researchers located a Telegram channel
claiming to represent theAtomwaffen Division
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Brazil. The channel has posted AWD propaganda translated into Portuguese, and
contains a recruitment email address on the Tutanota secure email site.
Individuals claiming to be from Brazil have previously expressed interest in
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inspired neo-Nazi accelerationism. A Telegram channel claiming to be Brazilian
and part of a network of extreme neo-Nazi Telegram channels was active between
April 2019 and January 2020. The channel posted photos and short videos
purporting to feature members of theSonnenkrieg Division
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Brazil, and Portuguese SKD propaganda allegedly posted in southern Brazil.
Several users of the now defunct web forumFascist Forge
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claimed to be located in Brazil. Fascist Forge offered neo-Nazi and fascist
propaganda, and users discussed lone actor terrorism, assassinations, and
organized sexual violence.
AWD in the U.S. claimed
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to have disbanded in March 2020. It is unclear what relationship if any groups
claiming
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to be AWD outside of North America have with the U.S. group or its members. In
December 2019, a group in Ukraine claimed to be a chapter of AWD, however they
were disavowed and condemned by the American organization. In late May 2020, a
groupusing
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the AWD name claiming to be in Russia emerged. It is likely that local groups
have adopted AWD propaganda, ideology, and aesthetics, without having any
connection to the U.S. group.
Several former AWD members have recently had their work featured on a new
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website dedicated to James Mason. The website claims no affiliation with AWD.
On June 17, the site added a “Prisoner of War” section listing the prison
addresses of four AWD members, and requested that individuals send them
“letters, books, or money” while warning readers to avoid discussing anything
related to their cases, or anything that could be used as evidence against the
letter writer.
White Supremacist Telegram Channel Shares Information On Manufacture Of
Ammunition
On Monday, June 15, a white supremacist Telegram channel that has previously
endorsed violence shared a Tweet containing information on making homemade 9mm
ammunition using spent shell casings. The files are originally from an
individual who creates and distributes plans and information on the 3D printing
of firearms and is unconnected to the white supremacist movement. One of the
main obstacles to the use of a non-regulated 3D printed firearm is that
ammunition must be made or acquired. The Telegram message that shard the Tweet
had been viewed over 5,000 times in approximately 72 hours, and was shared by
14 additional Telegram channels, including those that have previously endorsed
acts of terrorism.
White Supremacist Chan User Encourages False Flag Attacks On American
Politicians
On June 16, a user of an 8chan successor website located on both the surface
and dark web suggested that individuals commit false flag property attacks
against local politicians in order to turn them against anti-police brutality
protests. The poster lamented that many mayors support the protests but that if
their homes were vandalized in a way that would lead one to believe that
“antifa” or Black Lives Matter protestors were the culprits, their support
would fade.
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