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Extremist Content Online: White Supremacists, Extreme Right Praise Atlanta
Attacks, Encourage Violence Against Asian-Americans

 

(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 and
extreme right online communities celebrated the March 16 shooting attacks at
three massage parlors in and around Atlanta, Georgia, in which eight people
were murdered. Additionally, white supremacists celebrated the second
anniversary of the Christchurch terrorist attack on various Telegram chats and
channels and imageboards on both the surface and dark web.

 

Meanwhile, the fourteenth issue of the pro-ISIS web magazine “Voice of Hind”
was released and featured an article encouraging terrorist attacks on vehicles
on highways and railroads. Finally,ISIS
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from its self-proclaimed Pakistan province that encouraged attacks against
Shiites and the Pakistani government.

 

White Supremacists, Extreme-Right Praise Atlanta Area Attacks, Encourage
Anti-Asian Violence

 

White supremacist and extreme right online communities celebrated the March 16
shooting attacks at three massage parlors in the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan
area in which eight people were murdered. Six of those killed were
Asian-American women. Robert Aaron Long was arrested and charged with eight
counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault.

 

Between March 16 and March 19, several white supremacist channels on Telegram
posted propaganda dehumanizing people of Asian descent and praising the gunman.
Users of a neo-Nazi Telegram chat used the opportunity to expressly advocate
for violence against Asian-Americans, noting that whatever the gunman’s
motivation, the murder of Asian-Americans was “always a good thing.” A Proud
Boys affiliated
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group mocked protests against anti-Asian violence in the aftermath of the
attack, and users of a chat belonging to the media group promoted anti-Asian
racism. Users of the main 8chan /pol successor forum praised the attack, while
users of a white supremacist forum on the dark web promoted violence against
Asian-Americans, with one user stating their hope that violence would lead to
non-whites leaving Europe and the U.S.

 

Neo-Nazi accelerationist and white supremacist Telegram channels have
specifically promoted
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 anti-Asian racism and violence against Asian-Americans during the COVID-19
pandemic. On March 13, before the Atlanta attack, a prominent neo-Nazi Telegram
channel with approximately 1,300 members stated that it was essential to spread
footage of violence against people of Asian descent because of the need to
“dehumanize our enemies in the minds of whites, especially the youth.” Several
versions of the Telegram channel have been removed since January 2021. In March
2020, a known white supremacist shared a post on his Telegram channel stating
that anti-Asian racism was a way for white supremacists to try to build bridges
to the not explicitly white supremacist far-right.

 

White Supremacists Celebrate Two-Year Anniversary of Christchurch Terror Attack

 

White supremacists celebrated the second anniversary of the Christchurch
terrorist attack on various Telegram chats and channels and imageboards on both
the surface and dark web. Several white supremacist Telegram channels posted
the video made by the attacker and memes praising his actions and calling for
violence against Muslims. One channel forwarded related memes from one of the
most notorious neo-Nazi Telegram channels, of which several versions Telegram
has removed from the platform for violating their Terms of Service. Users of
the main 8chan /pol successor forum, as well as posters on two white
supremacist forums on the dark web, praised the attacker and encouraged further
attacks.

 

A user on TikTok posted a one-year-old threatening image of a man wearing a
skull mask and sunglasses
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 outside one of the targeted Christchurch mosques. The threat was originally
posted in a Telegram channel in March 2020. The image on TikTok was viewed over
17,000 times in approximately one week. Sam Richard Scott Brittenden pleaded
guilty in a New Zealand court in July 2020 for failing to assist with a search
warrant in relation to an investigation of the photo. TikTok did not remove the
image after it was reported.

 

Pro-ISIS Magazine “Voice of Hind” #14 Released

 

The fourteenth issue of the pro-ISIS web magazine “Voice of Hind” was released
on March 17. The magazine is meant to appeal to Muslims in the Indian
subcontinent and beyond. The recent issue featured an article encouraging
terrorist attacks on vehicles on highways and railroads. Another article
claimed that ISIS is doing well during the pandemic and economic crisis and has
been launching more attacks in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and throughout Africa.
One writer was disappointed, stating that ISIS supporters in India only voice
their support on social media but do not commit terrorist attacks. Another
article encouraged attacks against Shiite Muslims. The magazine was spread by
pro-ISIS propagandists on Telegram, Hoop, and the Internet Archive.

 

ISIS Releases New Propaganda Video

 

On Friday, March 19, ISIS <[link removed]>
 released a new propaganda video from its self-proclaimed Pakistan province.
The video encourages attacks against Shiites and the Pakistani government. The
video also includes footage of the brutal murder of eleven men identified as
Pakistani Hazara. ISISannounced
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its Pakistan province as an individual entity in May 2019.

 

Links to the video were spread on RocketChat and the video was posted on
Telegram, including in a channel made the same day to specifically spread the
video.The video was posted to at least five websites: the Internet Archive,
Streamable, Dropbox, File.Fm, and pCloud. Two hours later, the video was still
available on at least four websites: the Internet Archive, Streamable, File.Fm,
and pCloud. The Internet Archive removed the video after it was reported by CEP.

ISIS video on Streamable, March 19, 2021.


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