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Extremist Content Online: Carrd Removes Page For Neo-Nazi Propagandist After
CEP Flag



(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 on the directory website
Carrd, CEP researchers located a neo-Nazi digital artist whose page was being
used to link to fundraising and propaganda efforts. On Facebook, numerous
accounts that posted ISIS and pro-ISIS propaganda were discovered. Following
the killing of ISIS leader Maher al-Agal in Syria by a U.S. drone strike, the
terrorist group’s supporters on Telegram urged perseverance. Also, on Telegram,
a neo-Nazi collective released a book advocating for acts of accelerationist
terrorism, including mass shootings and attacks on infrastructure. Finally, a
neo-Nazi website called on readers to create firearms using 3D printers.



CEP Reports Neo-Nazi Propagandist Using Carrd



On July 12, CEP researchers located a neo-Nazi propagandist using the
directory website Carrd. The individual is a neo-Nazi digital artist who has
made work promoting white supremacist groups such asNSC-131
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and theactive club
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well as various other white supremacist causes. The individual’s Carrd page was
being used as a directory containing links to social media, fundraising
efforts, and the sale of clothing and artwork. Carrd removed the site after CEP
reported it for violating the site’s policies against “threatening or abusive
content.”



ISIS Content Located on Facebook



During the week of July 10 to July 16, CEP researchers found ten accounts on
Facebook that posted a variety of ISIS and pro-ISIS propaganda. Content
included a full-length official ISIS video uploaded on June 23, the same day it
was released, videos containing Amaq news statements, links to ISIS content on
other websites, ISIS audio clips, pro-ISIS propaganda photos, and unofficial
pro-ISIS videos using footage taken from official propaganda. One account, with
over 1,200 friends, used a photo of the November 2, 2020, Vienna attacker,
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as a profile photo. Another account, with over 850 followers, posted a photo on
April 30, originally released in 2015, that showed ISIS fighters executing an
alleged gay man in Kirkuk, Iraq, as well as multiple other propaganda photos.
Numerous pieces of propaganda located by CEP had over 100 interactions. CEP
reported the accounts to Facebook, who had only removed one account within
three days.



ISIS propaganda video on Facebook, July 14, 2022.



Online ISIS Supporters Pledge to Persevere After Killing of Group’s Leader in
Syria



Following a U.S. drone strike on July 12 that killed ISIS’s leader in Syria,
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that they would persevere. Pro-ISIS Telegram users claimed that the group was
an enduring idea that cannot be defeated through strikes on its leadership or
by losing territory. Another post urged ISIS supporters only to accept official
news from the group’s propaganda outlets, stating that Turkey had claimed to
have captured ISIS’s leader on May 26 without providing proof.



Neo-Nazi Accelerationist Book Released on Telegram



On July 14, a neo-Nazi collective released an approximately 260-page book on
Telegram advocating for acts of terrorism and spreading accelerationist
concepts and tactics as part of a series from the “Terrogram” set of channels.
The book included eye catching graphics, essays, infographics, and short works
of fiction. The guide encourages acts of terrorism, actions that spread chaos,
and further divisions in society. The guide claimed to have approximately 25
different authors.



The text encouraged lone actor violence, workplace violence, attacks on
infrastructure, law enforcement, politicians, people of color, Jews, Muslims,
Sikhs, Latinos, and LGBT people. The guide included information useful for
committing lone actor attacks on soft targets, such as operations security, how
to conduct surveillance, target selection, equipment suggestions, and
directions on making homemade explosives. The guide additionally offered advice
to individuals committing live-streamed attacks as copycats of the Christchurch
terrorist.



The guide also advocated for everyday acts of sabotage and larger acts of
sabotage targeting infrastructure such as railway lines, cellphone towers,
trucks and truck depots, roads, bridges, highways, water treatment facilities,
communications facilities, electrical infrastructure, and HVAC units.



The book included quotes from James Mason
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provided a reading guide for the bookThe Turner Diaries
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regarding what lessons readers should apply to their own violent efforts. The
guide also included images taken from propaganda released from theAtomwaffen
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’s “Fission” breakaway group. However, the guide recommended that individuals
commit individual acts of violence or work in small, vetted cells, but not to
join groups that organize using names or logos.



The book promised three additional publications in the future, including a kill
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based on a Telegramchannel
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that has repeatedly been deleted and returned. The same collective released
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2021.



Within four hours, the book was released on at least 13 different Telegram
channels. Approximately two hours before the guide was officially released, a
prominent neo-Nazi Telegram channel with over 10,000 subscribers dedicated to
information and operations security posted a meme featured in the book, likely
as an inside joke to signify involvement. The book was also located on the
Internet Archive who removed it after CEP reported it.



Neo-Nazi Website Promotes Creation of 3D Printed Firearms



On July 11, a neo-Nazi website linked to James Mason
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Socialist Order
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(NSO) posted a blog advising their readers to learn to create firearms using
3D printers. The post warned that on August 24, federallaws
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limiting “ghost guns” would come into effect, and that parts kits for the
homemade production of firearms would be subject to the same regulations as
pre-made firearms, including background checks, and that frames and receivers
would require serial numbers. The neo-Nazi website stated that their movement
needed to have the ability to build weapons secretly without alerting the
authorities.



The post included links to plans for building several 3D printed firearms and
warned that the federal government would eventually ban 3D printers capable of
producing firearms components. The blog post also stated that it was necessary
to build guns even if it violates the law.



On June 30, an NSO member in Mississippi, Aubrey Sakai Suzuki, pleaded guilty
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to making threats online in late 2020. The FBI arrested Suzuki on July 19,
2021, while he was picking up a firearm that he had purchased.



In addition to content from Mason, the website contains writing from former
members of the Atomwaffen Division and current members of the NSO and lists
members from the former as “prisoners of war.” On March 2, the site claimed
that the bulk of its readership was between the ages of 16 and 18. The website
uses Cloudflare as its name server and registrar.



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