One of the men behind several of New Zealand's alt-right Facebook pages talks openly about how he runs multiple pages because Facebook deletes them, and when pages are deleted he makes new ones. This is how the alt-right are avoiding The Christchurch Call
This why there are always around 50 or so alt-right and alt-right adjacent pages, there's maybe two dozen or so people behind all of them. Overlapping networks of pages are emerging, one page goes down, the network is still up, and soon a new page is added
one positive though, the sphere of influence does appear to be shrinking. Total 'likes' for pages is now mostly in the low hundreds (used to be 1,000-2,000) and there is less engagement with posts that there used to be on now removed pages
A negative though, those individuals are now working more closely together, informal groups exist now, and while their outward propaganda is limited compared to the pre-Christchurch shooting days, they communicate with and further radicalise each other
The groups don't just communicate online either. I'm aware of one group, centred around far-right YouTuber Lee Williams, who were meeting monthly in Christchurch. (Williams, and the man in the video at the start of this thread, have both received multiple police visits)
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