A Hatewatch investigation into leaked customer data of Sweden-based neo-Nazi hate music distributor Midgard revealed purchasers including a Wisconsin police officer and a known white nationalist whose name continued to show up in Midgard purchases months after his death.
Just three days after Elon Musk reinstated Alex Jones on X, his reboot of Twitter, the bigot and conspiracy propagandist has gained over 800,000 followers.
Extremists Get Boost From Donor-Advised Funds, Bitcoin
An unidentified source sent Epik, a web services company that caters to a far-right customer base, nearly $3 million worth of bitcoin one day after hackers announced that they had broken into the company’s servers, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Data Lab found.
A single benefactor made cryptocurrency donations worth more than $216,000 to extremists and hate groups between September 2021 and April 2022, according to an analysis provided to Hatewatch by the SPLC’s Data Lab.
An analysis provided to Hatewatch by SPLC’s Data Lab shows that white nationalist fugitive Robert Warren “Azzmador” Ray has raked in thousands of dollars a month in donations and memberships in 2023 from livestreams on low-moderation “alt-tech” video platform Odysee, using Stripe as a payment processor.
Despite volatility in cryptocurrency’s exchange rates, far-right extremists and hate groups continue to turn to digital currencies to raise funds. In the first quarter of this year, several high-profile extremists accepted donations and made business transactions using cryptocurrency.
Jury selection started today in the trial of 33-year-old Douglass Mackey, a man who prolifically spread hate and politically charged disinformation under the pseudonym “Ricky Vaughn” during Donald Trump’s political rise.
