Russia-Ukraine Megathread 28

CARCOSA [they/them] · 3 years ago

Russia-Ukraine Megathread 28

leredditor99 [he/him,none/use name] · edit-2 3 years ago

"Like, Share, Recruit: How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members" - Time, January 2021, https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/

"Facebook groups were a stalking ground for recruiters like Furholm, the Norwegian with the swastika tattoo. At the height of his efforts in 2018, he belonged to 34 groups devoted to neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic and other far-right subjects. Among the names of the groups that Furholm frequented were “Understanding National Socialism,” “Fascist New Man of Third Millennium” and “National Socialist News.” Twenty-seven of them, including those three, have disappeared from Facebook, but seven remain. One describes itself as “pro–white identity” and displays as its main image a black sun with an eagle atop it—overtly Nazi imagery. Another, reviewed by TIME in December, contains reams of anti-Semitic and racist posts. TIME made Facebook aware of the groups still online, and the company said it was completing a review of the content."

Among the names of the groups that Furholm frequented were “Understanding National Socialism,” “Fascist New Man of Third Millennium” and “National Socialist News.”