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Extremist Content Online: ISWAP Video Posted On Over A Dozen Sites, Including
Facebook

(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’s self-proclaimed
West African Province (ISWAP) released a video titled “Generation of
Empowerment” on over a dozen websites that contains interviews with ISIS child
soldiers and shows child soldiers committing acts of violence. The pro-ISIS
tech group Electronic Horizons Foundation (EHF) alerted its followers that
shared photos can reveal identifying information and urged them to remove the
photos’ metadata.

 

Additionally, users on 4chan’s /pol board shared the live stream of Norway
terrorist Anders Breivik’s parole hearing and celebrated his actions, while
also posting links to his manifesto. CEP researchers also found an account on
the Internet Archive connected to a neo-Nazi website with numerous pieces of
white supremacist and fascist content. Finally, researchers located a Telegram
channel belonging to the neo-Nazi group Feuerkrieg Division (FKD).

 

ISIS Propaganda Video Released on Multiple Websites

 

On January 18, ISIS’s self-proclaimed West African province (ISWAP) released a
video titled “Generation of Empowerment,” which contained interviews with ISIS
child soldiers at a training camp in Nigeria. The video shows children and
teenagers being instructed in weapons use, religion, Arabic language, and also
depicts students watching ISIS propaganda videos and participating in martial
arts instruction and weapons drills. The video includes several executions,
including a young child executing a man identified as a Nigerian special forces
soldier, teenagers killing a man alleged to be a sergeant in the Nigerian Army,
and the killing of another unidentified individual. The video concludes with a
teenage ISIS fighter firing a crew-served weapon and stating that he is now
participating in combat following his training.

 

In addition to Telegram, Hoop, RocketChat, and Element, the video was uploaded
to at least 21 websites. Approximately 24 hours later, the video was still
available on seven websites: Facebook, the Internet Archive, D.Tube, File.Fm,
the IPFS distributed web platform, Transfer.Sh, and Uqload. Facebook and Uqload
removed the video after CEP reported it. The Internet Archive did not remove
the video after it was reported by CEP.

Recently released ISIS video on Facebook, January 20, 2022.

 

Pro-ISIS Tech Group Warns Followers About Metadata

 

The pro-ISIS tech group Electronic Horizons Foundation (EHF) warned its
followers on several platforms about metadata in shared photos. The group
stated that images, including those made with Adobe, can potentially contain
identifying information and recommended using open-source programs to remove
metadata. EHF was created in 2016 to provide cybersecurity and web technical
assistance to ISIS supporters. The group has previously offered advice
regarding the messaging apps Hoop
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, Element
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, and Briar
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4chan Users Glorify Norway Terrorist and Spread Manifesto

 

On January 18, 4chan’s /pol board users shared links for the live stream of
Norway terrorist Anders Breivik
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, celebrated the terrorist and his actions, and posted links to his manifesto.
In over 400 messages, 4chan users shared messages and memes encouraging acts of
violence and antisemitism, as well as posts glorifying other right-wing
extremist terrorists.

 

Internet Archive Account Linked to Neo-Nazi Website Located

 

CEP researchers located an account on the Internet Archive linked to a
neo-Nazi website that uploaded various pieces of white supremacist and fascist
content. Uploaded content included a manual on multiple killing techniques,
videos of the notorious neo-Nazi James Mason
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book Siege
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Italian and Portuguese, antisemitic, racist, and anti-LGBT texts, translated
documents from Nazi Germany that bear the logo of the group National Socialist
Order
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, content written by contributors to the neo-Nazi website, and material from
the fascist web forum Iron March. The Telegram channel for the website stated
that they had uploaded content to the Internet Archive, sharing a link. The
Internet Archive did not remove the account or its content after CEP reported
it.

 

The website has previously advocated for acts of violence, is dedicated to
spreading neo-Nazi author James Mason’s work, and contains writings by members
of the National Socialist Order and several former members of theAtomwaffen
Division
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(AWD). The site lists former AWD members, one member of the neo-Nazi groupThe
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imprisoned for a mail bombing as “prisoners of war.”

 

Neo-Nazi Telegram Channel Returns to Telegram After Several Deletions

 

CEP researchers located a Telegram channel belonging to the decentralized
accelerationist neo-Nazi group Feuerkrieg Division
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channel was created on December 17, 2021, and called for acts of violence and
shared the neo-Nazi book Siege. On January 15, the channel threatened a
journalist by name. The channel also posted a video containing Lithuanian
police footage of an FKD member, Gediminas Beržinskas, placing a homemade
explosive device outside a Western Union building in Vilnius. Beržinskas was 
sentenced
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 to two years and four months in prison in September 2020. At least five
earlier Telegram channels affiliated with FKD have been removed from the
platform, four in 2021 in June, July, October, and December, and one in 2022 in
mid-January.

 

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