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Extremist Content Online: White Supremacist Telegram Users Promote Alternate
Platforms

(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, white supremacist Telegram
channels promoted alternate communications platforms due to Telegram’s ongoing,
but limited, crackdown
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 on extreme right chats and media. Additionally, a website that is supportive
of the neo-Nazi group, theNational Socialist Order
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, and its founder James Mason, requested Bitcoin donations, claiming that it
would be used for site maintenance, audiovisual equipment for Mason’s homemade
videos, and for setting up an online store. Also, multiple neo-Nazi and white
supremacist Telegram users expressed their anger over the arrest of an Austrian
neo-Nazi rapper named “Mr. Bond” who was charged with “producing and
broadcasting Nazi ideas and incitement to hatred.”

 

Meanwhile, ISIS-affiliated Amaq News released two videos – one video claiming
to show the bombing of a bus carrying Syrian Army troops near Raqqa, Syria and
another claiming to show an IED attack on a vehicle belonging to the Afghan
government in Jalalabad.

 

Finally, the website for a media project associated with the white supremacist
group,Rise Above Movement
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online privacy guide urging readers to use a password manager, communicate via
encryption platforms such as Signal, Telegram, Element, Threema, or Dust, and
to use safe web browsers that do not resell data.

 

White Supremacist Telegram Users Promote Alternate Platforms

 

White supremacist Telegram channels are promoting alternate communications
platforms due to Telegram’s ongoing, but limited, crackdown
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 on extreme right chats and media. Channel admins have already endorsed backups
on Matrix
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 and more recently encouraged users to consider the encrypted communications
platforms Tox and Retroshare. The post stated that decentralized platforms are
best so that media and law enforcement would not pressure companies to remove
content. The same post also stated that Gab, Parler, and Discord could not be
trusted. A channel dedicated to operations and information security urged users
to spread content via the peer-to-peer network IPFS.

 

Pro-National Socialist Order Website Dedicated to James Mason Solicits Bitcoin
Donations

 

A website that supports the National Socialist Order
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 and is dedicated to spreading James Mason’s work requested Bitcoin donations
on February 3. The post claims that donations would be used for site
maintenance, but any additional money would be spent on audiovisual equipment
for Mason’s homemade videos or setting up an online store. Five days later, the
Bitcoin account had accumulated approximately $13.50.

 

The site recently posted an essay advocating that their readers train with
friends, practice “hit and run tactics,” and advocating decentralized
organizing. The site also posted resources for 3D printed firearms earlier in
January.

 

The website contains writings by several former members of the Atomwaffen
Division and current National Socialist order members. Site authors include
AWD’s co-founder Brandon Russell, who is currently serving a five-year prison 
sentence
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 for possession of explosives, and a pseudonym for John Cameron Denton
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and Denton’s pseudonym are listed as “staff” for the website. The site
maintains a Gab account and uses Cloudflare as its name server and Epik as its
registrar.

Donation call on neo-Nazi website

 

Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists Lament Arrest of Austrian Neo-Nazi Rapper

 

Multiple neo-Nazi and white supremacist Telegram users expressed their anger
over the arrest <[link removed]> of an Austrian
neo-Nazi rapper who used the name “Mr. Bond.” The arrest of the 36-year-old man
from Carinthia was first reported
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 by Austrian media on Tuesday, February 2. According to Austrian authorities,
the accused is charged
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 with “producing and broadcasting Nazi ideas and incitement to hatred,” and it
is also alleged that he translated the Christchurch terrorist’s manifesto into
German. Mr. Bond’s music was played during the live stream of the October 2019
Halle Attack.

 

Telegram users posted mp3s of his music and links to websites that hosted it.
One channel approvingly stated that Mr. Bond had helped introduce large numbers
of people to national socialism, anti-Semitism, and racism. Other users,
including a neo-Nazi channel dedicated to operations and information security,
which has previously called for violence, stated that the arrest was a
teachable moment for improving online security.

 

The Nordic Resistance Movement
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a podcast paying tribute to the musician on their website and the Spreaker
platform, claiming that he was a fan of the podcast. The podcast additionally
praised Nazi Germany and condemned the “Jewish (stock) market.”

 

ISIS Affiliated Amaq News Videos Located on Several Websites

 

On February 1, ISIS-affiliated Amaq News released a video claiming to show the
bombing of a bus carrying Syrian Army troops near Raqqa, Syria. Links to the
video were spread via RocketChat and Hoop. The video was posted on at least 12
websites: Pcloud, File.Fm, SendVid, Tune.Pk, Streamable, PixelDrain, Top4Top,
Mail.Ru, the Microsoft One Drive, the Internet Archive, MediaFire, and Mega.Nz.
Three days later the video was still available on three websites: Top4Top, the
Internet Archive, and MediaFire.

 

Another Amaq video, also released on February 1, claimed to show an IED attack
on a vehicle belonging to the Afghan government in Jalalabad. Links to the
video were spread via RocketChat and Hoop. The video was posted on at least 11
websites: Pcloud, File.Fm, SendVid, Tune.Pk, Streamable, PixelDrain, Top4Top,
Mail.Ru, MediaFire, the Internet Archive, and Mega.Nz. Three days late the
video was still available on four websites: Top4Top, Mail.Ru, MediaFire, and
the Internet Archive.

 

Rise Above Movement Affiliated Website Publishes Online Privacy Guide

 

The website for a media project associated with the white supremacist Rise
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posted an online privacy guide on February 1. The guide urges readers to use a
password manager, use encrypted communications platforms such as Signal,
Telegram, Element, Threema, or Dust, and to use safe web browsers that do not
resell data.

 

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