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Extremist Content Online: CEP Continues To Locate Extremist Content On YouTube



(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, CEP researchers found
neo-Nazi content on YouTube, including an electronic music track promoting a
white supremacist clothing brand and a propaganda video made by the neo-Nazi
Nationalist Social Club where members sought to provoke confrontations and
intimidate attendees at a drag queen story hour event.



On Facebook, CEP located 13 different accounts that posted propaganda related
to various extremist groups and ideologies. A white supremacist t-shirt store
on a print-on-demand platform was discovered and removed promptly after being
reported by CEP. Finally, a user shared a link for blueprints for building
homemade firearms on a dark web imageboard that supports acts of white
supremacist terrorism.



YouTube Video Promoting White Supremacist Clothing Brand Located



CEP researchers located an electronic music track on YouTube promoting a white
supremacist clothing brand linked to the active club movement, the successor to
theRise Above Movement.
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by an established neo-Nazi musician, was uploaded to YouTube on July 14 and had
over 370 views two weeks later. An advertisement played before the video. The
YouTube link was shared by multiple Telegram channels, including several
connected to the clothing brand. CEP reported the video to YouTube on July 29,
but it was still accessible three days later.



Propaganda Video Showing Neo-Nazi Group Protesting And Seeking to Intimidate
Attendees of Drag Queen Story Hour Released, Located on YouTube and Facebook



On July 26, the neo-Nazi group Nationalist Social Club
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(NSC) released a propaganda video that showed its members protesting a drag
queen story hour event at a museum in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston
and attempting to intimidate event attendees and provoke confrontations. The
footage showed NSC members holding a banner, anti-LGBTQ, especially anti-trans
leaflets, and giving Nazi salutes. Newsreports
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stated that the group yelled anti-LGBTQ statements and attempted to provoke
counter-protesters. The propaganda video also showed an NSC member fighting
with an anti-fascist activist and being taken into custody by law enforcement.
NSC’s founder, Chris Hood, was arrested at the event andcharged
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with fighting in a public place. The propaganda video pledged that the group
would try to shut down future drag queen story hour events in New England and
included the group’s contact information and propaganda accounts on Telegram,
Gab, and other social media sites. In addition to approximately two dozen
Telegram channels, Gab, and Odysee, CEP located the video on YouTube and
Facebook. Neither YouTube nor Facebook removed the video after CEP reported it.



Pro-ISIS, Pro-TTP, Neo-Nazi Content Located on Facebook



CEP researchers located ten accounts that posted ISIS and pro-ISIS propaganda,
one account that posted pro-Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
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content, and two pages that promoted neo-Nazism in a sample of Facebook content
taken on July 27. Pro-ISIS profiles posted full-length ISIS propaganda videos,
clips from longer videos, including footage showing casualties from ISIS
attacks, unofficial videos supporting ISIS, photos taken from propaganda
videos, and ISIS audio files. One account used an image taken from a
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from 2016 as its profile photo. Three accounts had an undisclosed number of
friends or followers. The other seven accounts had a range of 188 to 3,700
friends, with an average of 1,195.



In addition to the ten pro-ISIS accounts, CEP located an account that
celebrated the killing of Pakistani police officers and posted videos from the
TTP propaganda outlet Umar Media. Two pages were also found that posted
neo-Nazi propaganda. With over 400 followers, the first page, a propaganda
outlet, posted a recent video made by theNationalist Social Club
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(NSC) and social media and contact information for the group. The post
indicated support for NSC’s actions. The second page, with over 900 followers,
belonged to a neo-Nazi record label and advertised the sale of t-shirts with
neo-Nazi symbols such as black suns/sonnenrads and swastikas. The uploader
partially covered some of the swastika imagery to avoid removal from Facebook.



CEP reported all thirteen accounts to Facebook on July 27. Within five days,
two of the thirteen accounts were removed: the pro-TTP account and a pro-ISIS
account that posted a clip from an ISIS propaganda video that showed combat
casualties.



White Supremacist T-Shirt Store Removed From Spring Platform



On July 25, CEP reported white supremacist t-shirts to the print-on-demand
platform Spring. The platform removed the store that sold the shirts in
approximately two hours for violating the site’sAcceptable Use Policy
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The reported shirts contained slogans and imagery used by various white
supremacist movements. A Telegram channel affiliated with the since removed
store has posted a large quantity of racist, anti-Muslim, and antisemitic
content and has praised various neo-Nazis such asWilliam Luther Pierce
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White supremacist products were removed from Spring on July 25 after CEP
reported them.



Dark Web White Supremacist Imageboard Shares Information on Building Homemade
Firearms



On July 24, a user of a white supremacist imageboard on the dark web that
endorses acts of terrorism shared a link for a website that contains blueprints
for building homemade shotguns and sells kits in the U.S. containing craft made
firearms parts. The imageboard poster stated that shotgun shells were easier to
make or acquire than rifle or pistol ammunition and that they could send the
blueprint files.



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