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Extremist Content Online: ISIS Affiliated Amaq News Videos Located On Several
Websites

(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, ISIS-affiliated Amaq News
released a video showing the Egyptian military transporting two bulldozers
purportedly damaged by ISIS in Sinai with links to the video spread via
RocketChat. Also, Robert Rundo, the co-founder of the Rise Above Movement (RAM)
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podcast with Denis Nikitin, the founder of the white supremacist White Rex MMA
clothing brand, on the Spreaker platform.

 

Meanwhile, as Telegram continues to remove
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 white supremacist channels, several administrators have posted links to backup
channels on the Matrix platform. Additionally, a prominent neo-Nazi Telegram
channel posted a manual of instructions to remove the microphone and camera
from a smartphone to prevent surveillance. Finally, CEP researchers located
several pieces of neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic merchandise, including t-shirts,
mugs, and phone cases, on the e-commerce site Gear Bubble.

 

ISIS Affiliated Amaq News Videos Located on Several Websites

 

On January 24, ISIS-affiliated Amaq News released a video showing the Egyptian
military transporting two bulldozers purportedly damaged byISIS
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were spread via RocketChat. The video was posted on at least eight websites:
File.Fm, Streamable, PixelDrain, Top4top, Dropbox, the Microsoft One Drive, the
Internet Archive, and Mega.Nz. Four days later, the video was only available on
two websites: Top4top and the Internet Archive.

 

Another Amaq video, released on January 27 and purporting to show an IED
attack against a vehicle near al-Hasakah in Syria, was located on Streamable
approximately 24 hours after it was posted to the website.

ISIS Amaq video on Streamable, January 28, 2021

 

Rise Above Movement Co-Founder Launches Podcast

 

Robert Rundo, the co-founder of the Rise Above Movement
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launched a podcast with Denis Nikitin, the founder of the white supremacist 
White Rex
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 MMA clothing brand, on the Spreaker platform. An episode covered the topics of
demonstrations and allegations of election fraud in the U.S. and included the
hosts stating that they would attempt to recruit individuals angry about the
January 6 capitol insurrection into the broader white supremacist movement.
Rundo noted that their opponents were “subhuman” while Nikitin stated that
their enemies were “rats, snakes, cockroaches, (and) insects,” which meant that
“unfortunately we need to go down to their level and destroy them in another
way.” The podcast was no longer available on Spreaker on January 29.

 

CEP has previously located content from ISIS
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 Nordic Resistance Movement
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Spreaker. The podcasting platform’s Terms of Service
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indirectly” promotes “hate, racism, discrimination…or violence.”

 

The podcast is still available on BitChute and is advertised on a RAM
affiliated YouTube account.

 

Neo-Nazi Telegram Channels Encourage Move to Matrix

 

As Telegram continues to remove
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 extreme-right and white supremacist channels, several administrators have
posted links to backup channels on the Matrix platform. A white supremacist
chat poster stated that Telegram was no longer safe and that Matrix, a
decentralized and open-source platform, would provide greater information
security and encryption.

 

As of January 28, Telegram had removed approximately 50 channels and chats,
including far right, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi channels that had called
for violence, spread bomb making information, or posted information for
targeted harassment on social media. Several of the deleted channels have been
able to return to the platform under new names, and in some cases modifying the
content that they post. Other extreme-right channels have become private,
making them unsearchable and requiring a specific joining link, and in some
cases, the private channels forward content to public channels.

 

Neo-Nazi Telegram Channel Posts Guide to Removing Microphones and Cameras From
Smartphones

 

On January 25, a prominent neo-Nazi Telegram channel posted a manual of
instructions on how to remove the microphone and camera from a smartphone to
prevent surveillance. The channel is dedicated to operations and information
security, has previously called for violence, and has over 5,500 subscribers.
The manual, which was posted on the Internet Archive, lamented that many people
involved in the January 6 capitol insurrection had been arrested due to
information taken from their phones.

 

Merchandise Promoting Neo-Nazism and Anti-Semitism Located on Gear Bubble

 

CEP researchers located several pieces of neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic
merchandise, including t-shirts, mugs, and phone cases, on the e-commerce site
Gear Bubble. Some of the items were from a store on the site belonging to the
admin of a neo-Nazi Telegram channel. Logos included the SS deaths head, the
black sun symbol, and images of Hitler and anti-Semitic slogans. Gear Bubble’s
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site that is “obscene” or “indecent.”

 

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