Brenton Tarrant, the notorious Australian white supremacist who carried out the
2019 Christchurch mosque terror attacks that killed 51 people in New Z


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Tech & Terrorism: Christchurch Shooter Expected To Receive Life Sentence

(New York, N.Y.) – Brenton Tarrant, the notorious Australian white supremacist
who carried out the 2019 Christchurch mosque terror attacks that killed 51
people in New Zealand, is expected to besentenced
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life in prison later this month—the first life sentence to ever be handed down
in the nation’s modern history. Tarrant livestreamed his attack on Facebook
before it spread to other sites on the Internet. Video of the attack was
reuploaded millions of times across the entire Internet. On Facebook alone, it
was reuploaded 1.5 million times.

Incredibly, in violation of rules set by New Zealand’s judicial system,
Tarrant was reportedly permitted tosend
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letters to supporters in late 2019 while incarcerated, copies of which also
eventually appeared online and were shared across online platforms, including
the anonymous chat forum 4chan. One six-page letter addressed to a Russian
admirer named “Alan” warned of an upcoming “great conflict,” alluding to an
expected race war.

To read CEP’s resource, Brenton Tarrant, please click here
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In March 2020, nearly one year after the massacre, Counter Extremism Project
(CEP) researchersdiscovered
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that the livestream attack video, clips of the video, and content celebrating
Tarrant’s actions remained easily locatable on file-hosting websites, the same
aforementioned 4chan message boards, and video-streaming platforms. The
Christchurch terror attack remains a case study of how sites and platforms
continue to be misused by extremists, especially when tech companies fail to
take the steps necessary to prevent the hosting, broadcasting, and reuploading
of extremist content.

Prior to the attacks, Tarrant authored a manifesto entitled, “The Great
Replacement,” referring to a white-nationalist theory positing that non-white
immigration threatens the dominant white European culture with cultural
genocide. He disseminated the manifesto to several media outlets and the Prime
Minister’s Office before carrying out the two attacks. Tarrant wrote of his
obsessions with so-called racial purity, claiming the attack would “show the
invaders that our lands will never be their lands.” He also wrote that he began
planning the attack “roughly two years in advance,” and chose the final
location three months prior to the attack. Tarrant also posted multiple memes
and other images of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on social
media prior to the Christchurch attack.

To read CEP’s New Zealand resource, please click here
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To read CEP’s resource, Timothy McVeigh, please click here
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