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.. "WHITEFISH, Mont. — Richard B. Spencer, the most infamous summer resident in this town, once boasted that he stood at the vanguard of a white nationalist movement emboldened by President Donald J. Trump. Things have changed.

“I have bumped into him, and he runs — that’s actually a really good feeling,” said Tanya Gersh, a real estate agent targeted in an antisemitic hate campaign that Andrew Anglin, the founder of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, unleashed in 2016 after Mr. Spencer’s mother made online accusations against Ms. Gersh."

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"The trial in the Charlottesville case, Sines v. Kessler, begins on Oct. 25. A group of victims and counterprotesters filed suit against Mr. Anglin as well as Mr. Spencer, along with nearly two dozen people and groups involved in the “Unite the Right” rally, after a neo-Nazi at the Charlottesville march plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer, 32, and injuring at least 19 others.

Mr. Spencer’s lawyer withdrew from the case last year because he had not been paid. “Due to deplatforming efforts against me, it is very difficult for me to raise money as other citizens are able to,” Mr. Spencer told the judge in a pretrial hearing in 2020. He is now representing himself."

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How White nationalists evade the law and continue profiting off hate

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How White nationalists evade the law and continue profiting off hate

At the rally — which turned deadly — he participated with gusto, carrying a banner that, according to court documents, said, “Gas the kikes, race war now!” during a march past a synagogue.

But when Robert Warren Ray was indicted in June 2018 for using tear gas on counter-protesters at the event, police discovered he was nowhere to be found.

The fugitive, known in far-right circles as a prolific podcaster under a Bigfoot-themed avatar and the name “Azzmador,” has vanished — at least from real life.

However, Ray’s podcast, which he calls The Krypto Report, later appeared on a new gaming livestreaming service that has become a haven for right-wing extremists who have been deplatformed from YouTube and other mainstream social media channels.

Called DLive, the live-streaming platform with a blockchain-based reward system allows users to accept cryptocurrency donations — another perk for extremists barred from using services such as PayPal or GoFundMe, or who want to raise money internationally. Ray, a 54-year-old Texan, was a hit.

He quickly became one of the top 20 earners on DLive, according to an analysis by online extremism expert Megan Squire of Elon University in North Carolina, who studied the period from April 2020 — the earliest data available — through mid-January 2021.

It’s not just the police who are searching for Ray. Since September 2019, he has been flouting court orders and missing appearances in a civil case that names him as one of 24 defendants accused of conspiring to plan, promote and carry out the violent events of Charlottesville.

“(Ray) has failed to communicate with Plaintiffs and the Court in any manner –even while continuing to participate on social media, post articles on the website of The Daily Stormer, and publish podcasts,” said plaintiffs’ attorneys in court documents filed in June.

As for the criminal case, which charges Ray with maliciously releasing gas, authorities have labeled him a fugitive since his 2018 indictment.

To be sure, Ray — who mysteriously stopped podcasting from DLive a few months ago — didn’t get rich on DLive. But while he was ignoring court summonses for his alleged role in organizing Unite the Right, he earned $15,000 on the platform in just six months, according to Squire’s analysis. He cashed most of it out, she said.

“The idea that he’s wanted for all of this stuff, but then just gets to sit at home behind a microphone and make money on the side — I thought that was just not good at all,” Squire said.

Experts say the story of Ray and DLive underscores a reality about people who get chased into the shadows by lawsuits or deplatforming crusades: There will almost always be an entrepreneur who is willing to provide a venue for exiled promoters of hate.

“Where there is demand, eventually supply finds a way,” said John Bambenek, a cyber security expert who tracks the cryptocurrency accounts of extremists.

A game of cat and mouse

Public scrutiny drives alt-right personalities deeper into the bowels of the internet, reducing their visibility.

And while their retreat to ever more obscure corners can make it more difficult to monitor the chatter, Michael Edison Hayden, a spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, says the game of whack a mole is ultimately worthwhile.

“I have seen firsthand the degree to which figures who were…extremely successful in radicalizing large numbers of people, become extraordinarily marginalized, extraordinarily fast in so-called dark corners of the internet,” he said.

There are few neo-Nazi figures who have been as widely deplatformed as Andrew Anglin, publisher of The Daily Stormer, one of the web’s most notorious hate sites — and where Ray gained prominence as a writer and podcaster. Anglin’s Daily Stormer was dumped by Google and GoDaddy after Anglin in a post mocked the protester who was killed in Charlottesville as a “fat, childless 32-year-old slut.”

This made it more difficult for laypeople to find his site, though it has managed to stay on the internet, partially through the work of an adroit webmaster. “There was just this ongoing battle of what (the webmaster) would do in order to keep Anglin’s voice online,” Hayden said.

Like Ray, Anglin is on the lam. He has evaded attorneys since the summer of 2019, when he lost a spate of lawsuits. In the biggest judgment against him, Anglin was ordered by a judge to pay $14 million to a Jewish woman in Montana who had endured anti-Semitic harassment and death threats from Anglin’s “troll army” of supporters. (One voicemail said: “You are surprisingly easy to find on the Internet. And in real life.”) Anglin, who did not respond to Appradab’s request for comment, has said in court documents that he isn’t living in the country.

The woman, Tanya Gersh, recently told Appradab that she has yet to receive a dime of the judgment and is appalled that people are profiting from hate.

“If knowing that doesn’t disgust you, we have really, really been led astray in our country,” she said.

Founded in 2017, DLive, which is owned by a 30-year-old Chinese national named Justin Sun, takes a 20% cut of its streamers’ revenue, according to its website.

Although DLive initially allowed far-right figures — including Ray — it has purged several amid scrutiny in the wake of the deadly riot at the Capitol on January 6.

That day, Anthime “Tim” Gionet, better known as “Baked Alaska,” used the service to live-stream his role in the incursion. In the video, he curses out a law-enforcement officer, sits on a couch and puts his feet on a table, and can be heard saying, “1776, baby,” according to an FBI affidavit. Gionet was suspended from the site, as was Nick Fuentes — part of a White nationalist group of young radicals called the Groypers — who was also at the January 6 rally, though he says he did not enter the Capitol. Both had already been permanently jettisoned by YouTube and other social media outlets, though Fuentes remains on Twitter.

“DLive was appalled that a number of rioters in the U.S. Capitol attack abused the platform to live stream their actions,” and when its moderators become aware of the live streams, they shut them down, the company said in a statement to Appradab. “All payments to those involved in the attack have been frozen.”

Ray’s DLive account, too, has been suspended, a company spokesman said, although the action did not publicly appear on his page until a couple of days after Appradab reached out to the company on February 5. The DLive spokesman said the decision to sanction his channel was unrelated to Appradab’s inquiry, and that the suspension amounts to a permanent ban.

In any case, Ray stopped posting to DLive about four months ago, around the time a judge in the Unite the Right case found him in contempt. He did not respond to Appradab’s requests for comment.

Gionet was arrested in Houston last month, but Fuentes and Ray have both since popped up elsewhere online.

Fuentes — DLive’s top earner, who took in about $114,000 in six months ending in January — has been scrambling to keep his podcast streaming since DLive booted him. For a few weeks, he’d figured out a way to keep using YouTube, even though the platform had dropped him, largely by using intermediaries to embed a livestream from other YouTube channels on his own website.

Squire said she spent those weeks engaged in a game of cat and mouse with him, repeatedly finding the 22-year-old Illinois native and notifying the third parties, and YouTube, of Fuentes’ actions.

The third parties have mostly acted swiftly and banned Fuentes’ content, Squire said. And while YouTube didn’t act on all of Squire’s initial reporting, the company took action when Appradab flagged it.

“We’ve terminated multiple channels surfaced by Appradab for attempting to circumvent our policies,” a YouTube spokesperson said last week. “Nicholas Fuentes’ channel was terminated in February 2020 after repeatedly violating our policies on hate speech and, as is the case with all terminated accounts, he is now prohibited from operating a channel on YouTube. We will continue to take the necessary steps to enforce our policies.”

Following YouTube’s crackdown, Fuentes began experimenting with other blockchain based technologies that enable him to stream his nightly program without being deplatformed. His recent moves have left Squire frustrated. “I don’t have an answer on how to do the take downs — I just don’t know,” she said.

Ray, meanwhile, appears to have retreated to another obscure streaming site, called Trovo, which is so new it is still in beta mode.

In the chat section of what appeared to be Ray’s new Azzmador page on Trovo, a follower said “we missed u Azz” on January 15.

Ray has yet to livestream any podcasts on Trovo. But in recent days — after several months of silence — a Telegram account bearing Azzmador’s logo with a link to his DLive channel burst back onto the platform with a series of racist and anti-Semitic messages.

“Harriet Tubman and MLK are both fake historical figures who had Communist Jew handlers/promoters,” read one February 7 message.

Some startups see the deplatforming of online firebrands as a recruitment opportunity.

“Hey @rooshv, so sorry to see you get censored!” a Canadian company called Entropy — which targets YouTubers and other streamers seeking to avoid censorship — tweeted at Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh, an online personality in the so-called “manosphere,” who has touted misogynistic ideas such as that women are intellectually inferior and that rape should be legal on private property. Valizadeh — who authored an online post called “Why are Jews behind most modern evils?” — had just been dumped by YouTube less than a week prior, on July 13. “We would be honored to support your streams,” the tweet added.

In March 2019, Entropy’s three young founders were interviewed by a podcaster about their new product, and excitedly touted their first big-name user, Jean-François Gariépy, an alt-right YouTuber who frequently featured White nationalists on one of his shows.

“He was actually the first streamer to try us out,” said co-founder Rachel Constantinidis. “He tried us out for a number of months, and we were able to really improve the stability of the platform based on his feedback.”

In an email to Appradab, Gariépy denied a CBC news article’s characterization of him as supporting “ideas of white superiority and white ‘ethnostates,'” saying, “no proper context was provided by the journalist to understand the circumstances in which I discussed these subjects in the past.”

Fuentes and Gionet did not respond to Appradab’s requests for comment, and Valizadeh declined an interview.

How cryptocurrency comes into play

Just as far-right provocateurs are driven underground to more niche sites when they are booted from mainstream platforms, so, too, do they often gravitate towards cryptocurrency such as bitcoin when banished from using online payment services like PayPal and GoFundMe.

“Cryptocurrencies are indispensable to them at this point,” said Squire.

Because many of them were early adopters — and because bitcoin’s volatile value has recently skyrocketed — some are now sitting on vast sums.

Most successful in this realm has been Stefan Molyneux, a Canadian vlogger who has promoted ideas of non-White inferiority and has said, “I don’t view humanity as a single species.” Molyneux, dropped by PayPal in late 2019, starting taking bitcoin donations in 2013 and is holding onto a chunk of the cryptocurrency that amounted to more than $27 million as of Thursday morning, said Bambenek, the cyber security expert.

(Molyneux — who is still on Facebook and Instagram — has also been expelled from YouTube, and has since shown up on lesser-known platforms such as BitChute, DLive and Entropy, where his audience is considerably diminished. Molyneux told Appradab in an email that he stopped covering politics last year, and is now writing about parenting. He declined to answer any questions about his finances.)

BitChute, Trovo and Entropy did not respond to Appradab’s requests for comment.

By publishing their wallet IDs online and urging followers to donate through cryptocurrency, extremists have — perhaps unwittingly — provided unprecedented insight into their financials. In an attempt to cut out the middleman and combat fraud, bitcoin transactions — including sender and recipient identifiers — are all recorded in a public ledger, available to anyone.

Individual donations to far-right personalities mostly appear to have been small, and Bambenek said they are shrinking on the whole.

One exception: Nick Fuentes received a single donation of 13.5 bitcoin, at the time worth about $250,000, in December from a person whom researchers believe was a computer programmer in France who apparently killed himself shortly afterward, according to a Yahoo News exclusive report.

Another notable cryptocurrency enthusiast is Anglin of The Daily Stormer who, in addition to owing Gersh of Montana $14 million, has another $4.1 million judgment against him for falsely branding comedian and Appradab contributor Dean Obeidallah — an American Muslim — as a terrorist. He also owes money to Taylor Dumpson, who, after becoming the first Black female student body president at American University, endured a harassment campaign orchestrated by The Daily Stormer. That $725,000 judgment is against Anglin, the site and one of the site’s followers.

Anglin, who claims on his website to be banned from PayPal, credit card processors and even his PO Box, has been directing his donations to bitcoin since 2014. Over the years, he received more than 200 bitcoin, but most appear to have been cashed out, according to Bambenek, who said Anglin is holding on to at least 10.1 bitcoin, worth more than $525,000 as of Thursday morning.

But Anglin’s cryptocurrency holdings are becoming more difficult to monitor.

While Anglin was embroiled in the Gersh lawsuit, his website started advertising donations through a more obscure cryptocurrency called Monero, which — contrary to crypto’s ethos of transparency — keeps transactions private.

Azzmador and Anglin sued by Charlottesville victims

Demonetizing and deplatforming aren’t the only way to defang groups and individuals who espouse identity-based hate.

“You also need to sue them,” said Amy Spitalnick, executive director of Integrity First for America, a nonprofit civil rights group.

Ray and Anglin are among a couple dozen defendants named in a lawsuit underwritten by Spitalnick’s group on behalf of several activists who are Charlottesville victims. The two men are accused of being part of the leadership team that not only planned the Unite the Right rallies on August 11 and 12, 2017, but primed the pump for violence.

Four of the 10 plaintiffs in the civil rights lawsuit, which is scheduled to go to trial in October, were struck by the car driven by a neo-Nazi into a throng of counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer, whose physical appearance Anglin would later disparage. Their injuries ranged from broken bones to concussions to torn ligaments. The other plaintiffs in the suit say they have suffered emotional distress either from physical injuries inflicted during the event or from psychological trauma and have missed work as a result.

In the days leading to the Unite the Right rally, much of the planning and coordination happened on The Daily Stormer, which — with Anglin and Ray as principal authors — began to take on a menacing tone, according to the suit.

On August 8, the suit says, Anglin and Ray said the purpose of the upcoming rally had shifted from being in support of a Confederate monument of Robert E. Lee, “which the Jew Mayor and his Negroid Deputy have marked for destruction” to “something much bigger…which will serve as a rallying point and battle cry for the rising Alt-Right movement.”

“There is a craving to return to an age of violence,” Anglin wrote, according to the suit. “We want a war.”

The Daily Stormer advertised the rally with a poster depicting a figure taking a sledgehammer to the Jewish Star of David.

“Join Azzmador and The Daily Stormer to end Jewish influence in America,” it said.

Prior to the event, the suit says, Ray and Anglin wrote on The Daily Stormer that “Stormers” were required to bring tiki torches and should also bring pepper spray, flag poles, flags and shields.

Anglin did not attend the rally in Charlottesville, but Ray did. During the march past the synagogue, the suit alleges, he yelled at a woman to “put on a fu**ing burka” and called her a “sharia whore.”

The suit says he then proclaimed: “Hitler did nothing wrong.”

Fast forward three-and-a-half years. By January, Ray’s once-prolific podcast had been dark for several months. His fans began to notice. On a forum called GamerUprising, somebody started a thread on January 25 called “What happened to Azzmador????”

“He just disappeared and no one even seems to care,” wrote the user, who goes by “Creepy-ass Cracker.”

But there are signs that Ray plans a return to podcasting as Azzmador.

On February 3, a fan on his Trovo page asked when Azzmador would begin streaming.

He responded in a word: “soon.”

Appradab’s Julia Jones contributed to this story.

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Neo-Nazi website founder owes $14 million to woman he urged readers to harass, judge says

Tanya Gersh said she and her family received threatening and horrifying messages for months after Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin encouraged a "troll storm."

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MISSOULA, Montana (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the arrest of a neo-Nazi website publisher accused of ignoring a $14 million judgment against him for orchestrating an antisemitic harassment campaign against a Montana woman and her family.

U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Andrew Anglin, founder and operator of the Daily Stormer website.

Attorneys for Tanya Gersh have said Anglin did not pay any portion of the August 2019 judgment and has ignored their requests for information about his whereabouts, his operation of the website and other assets.

Gersh says anonymous internet trolls bombarded her family with hateful and threatening messages after Anglin published their personal information, including a photo of her young son. In a string of posts, Anglin accused Gersh and other Jewish residents of Whitefish, Montana, of engaging in an “extortion racket” against Sherry Spencer, the mother of white nationalist Richard Spencer.

Gersh’s April 2017 lawsuit accused Anglin of invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and violation of the Montana Anti-Intimidation Act. An attorney for Gersh did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking comment Wednesday.

Judge Christensen ordered Anglin to pay more than $4 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages to Gersh, who is represented by lawyers from the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. The court entered the default judgment against Anglin after he failed to appear for a scheduled deposition by Gersh’s attorneys.

Anglin, a native of Ohio, has claimed to be living outside the U.S. His current whereabouts are unknown and he did not immediately respond to an email sent to an address posted on his website.

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Anglin became aware of Gersh because of a conversation she had with Sherry Spencer. Gersh, a real estate agent, characterized it as a “mother-to-mother” talk: She said Sherry Spencer, who owns an apartment building in Whitefish, called her for advice after hearing that protesters of Richard Spencer’s views might target the building.

Sherry Spencer wrote a blog post saying Gersh threatened her and pressured her to sell the property.

Sherry Spencer never went to the police with any allegation of extortion, but Anglin seized upon the incident and exhorted his readers to “hit” Gersh with “an old-fashioned Troll Storm.”

Many of the messages sent to Gersh used antisemitic slurs and referred to the Holocaust. A tweet to her 12-year-old son had an image of an oven with the message: “Pssst kid there is a free X-box inside this oven.”

Other targets of Anglin’s online harassment campaigns also secured default judgments against him after he failed to respond to their respective lawsuits.

In June 2019, a federal judge in Ohio awarded $4.1 million in damages to Muslim-American radio host Dean Obeidallah, who sued Anglin for falsely accusing him of terrorism. Obeidallah said he received death threats after Anglin published an article that tricked readers into believing he took responsibility for the May 2017 terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert.

In August 2019, a federal judge in Washington entered another default judgment against Anglin and awarded just over $600,000 in compensatory and punitive damages to Taylor Dumpson, the first Black woman to serve as American University’s student government president.

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Pastor receives award for work with skateboarding community

A small group was gathered on the Woodland Skate Park in Kalispell Thursday as Love Lives Right here within the Flathead Valley and the Mountain View Mennonite Church offered their 2021 Peacemaker of the Yr award to the Rev. Miriam Mauritzen for her work with the Severe JuJu neighborhood skateboard ministry.

With a number of of her flock of younger skate boarders displaying off their strikes within the skate park behind her, Mauritzen accepted the Mennonite-made Peace Quilt, which is offered every year to an individual or group within the valley that demonstrates the braveness or perseverance to work towards a extra civil, peaceable, therapeutic and harmonious neighborhood.

“Serving Severe JuJu has been the enjoyment of my life. I didn’t develop up understanding any skate boarders. This isn’t the place I spent my time. This was not the noise of my life. Now, it’s the symphony of my life… Each time I hear this noise now, skateboarding and clicking over sidewalks and hitting a curb, my coronary heart races with pleasure, questioning if I’ll acknowledge the child,” Mauritzen mentioned. “I be taught from these youngsters on a regular basis what it means to fall down and get again up. What it means to fall down publicly. These youngsters undergo so many obstacles time and again they usually discover a strategy to navigate by way of and to not get discouraged. I so admire that. They educate me a lot they usually educate us all a lot.”

SINCE 2007, Severe JuJu has been providing sizzling meals and a spot to work on their abilities to lots of within the space’s younger skateboarding neighborhood. Working with this system for practically a decade, Mauritzen has helped deliver a way of value and hope to a number of the most marginalized youth within the valley. The previous affiliate pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Kalispell, Mauritzen helped the group discover funding to maintain operating in 2012 and took over because the group’s pastor in 2019.

Together with the three occasions hosted every week by the group on the Woodland and Whitefish skate parks, Mauritzen additionally finds the time to assist on the native meals financial institution. Every week, she delivers meals packages to many, together with the households of a number of of her skate boarders, every with a customized letter from Mauritzen inside.

“Reverend Mauritzen’s work exemplifies what peacemaking is about. Peace is elusive for a lot of. They might not have anywhere that’s secure. The place they are going to be befriended and never bullied. The place they are going to be supported of their struggles in addition to their accomplishments. Miriam has created such a sanctuary in Severe JuJu,” Love Lives Right here’s Allan McGarvey mentioned.

Since 2014, Love Lives Right here within the Flathead Valley and the Mountain View Mennonite Church have been honoring space people and organizations with their Peacemaker of the Yr award, which places the highlight on those that work non-violently for change, deliver folks collectively to resolve variations, promote social justice and therapeutic, or work towards the constructing of relationship and neighborhood within the Flathead Valley.

Annually’s winner is chosen from nominations put ahead by the general public with previous recipients together with the Abbie Shelter, the Middle for Restorative Youth Justice, B.J. and Milt Carlson, the Whitefish Metropolis Council, Will Randall, Sam and Ruth Neff and Tanya Gersh.

For extra data on the Peacemaker of the Yr award, go to https://www.mountainviewmennonite.org/peacemaker-of-the-year-award.

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Reporter Jeremy Weber could also be reached at 758-4446 or jweber@dailyinterlake.com

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Neo-Nazi website founder accused of ignoring $14M judgment

A Montana real estate agent who secured a $14 million judgment against a neo-Nazi website publisher for orchestrating an anti-Semitic harassment campaign against her Jewish family is seeking a court order compelling the man to disclose information about his assets and finances.

Tanya Gersh’s attorneys said in a court filing Friday that Andrew Anglin, founder and operator of The Daily Stormer, hasn’t paid any portion of the August 2019 judgment and has ignored their requests for information about his whereabouts, his operation of the website and other assets.

Anglin, a native of Ohio, has claimed to be living outside the U.S. But his current whereabouts are unknown.

U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula, Montana, ordered Anglin to pay over $4 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages to Gersh, who is represented by lawyers from the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. The court entered the default judgment against Anglin after he failed to appear for his scheduled deposition by Gersh’s attorneys.

Gersh’s lawyers also on Wednesday asked the court to sanction Anglin for his “continued lack of co-operation.” They’re seeking details about recent financial transactions, donations, and debts as well as documents related to his bank accounts, cryptocurrency holding and domain name holdings.

“Obtaining information on Anglin’s assets is crucial to the post-judgment phase of litigation, and the benefits of obtaining such information through discovery far outweigh the minimal burden on Anglin that producing this information would entail,” the attorneys wrote.

Anglin isn’t represented by an attorney in the case. He didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Gersh says anonymous internet trolls bombarded her family with hateful and threatening messages after Anglin published their personal information, including a photo of her young son. In a string of posts, Anglin accused Gersh and other Jewish residents of Whitefish, Montana, of engaging in an “extortion racket” against the mother of white nationalist Richard Spencer.

Gersh says she had agreed to help Spencer’s mother sell commercial property she owns in Whitefish amid talk of a protest outside the building. Sherry Spencer, however, later accused Gersh of threatening and harassing her into agreeing to sell the property.

Gersh’s April 2017 lawsuit accused Anglin of invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and violation of the Montana Anti-Intimidation Act.

Other targets of Anglin’s online harassment campaigns also secured default judgments against him after he failed to respond to their respective lawsuits.

In June 2019, a federal judge in Ohio awarded $4.1 million in damages to Muslim American radio host Dean Obeidallah, who sued Anglin for falsely accusing him of terrorism. Obeidallah said he received death threats after Anglin published an article that tricked readers into believing he took responsibility for the May 2017 terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert

In August 2019, a federal judge in Washington entered another default judgment against Anglin and awarded just over $600,000 in compensatory and punitive damages to the first Black woman to serve as American University’s student government president. Taylor Dumpson’s lawsuit said Anglin directed his readers to “troll storm” her after someone hung bananas with hateful messages from nooses on the university’s campus a day after her inauguration as student government president.

Anglin and others also face a possible default judgment in a federal lawsuit filed in Virginia by victims of violence that erupted at a white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. For months, The Daily Stormer struggled to stay online after Anglin published a post mocking the woman who was killed when a man plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville.

Anglin’s site takes its name from Der Sturmer, a newspaper that published Nazi propaganda. The site includes sections called “Jewish Problem” and “Race War.”

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For Immediate Release: New Series Starring Elizabeth Olsen Headed to Facebook Watch

NEW SERIES STARRING ELIZABETH OLSEN IS HEADED TO FACEBOOK WATCH   From Director James Ponsoldt, From Creator Kit Steinkellner, Showrunner Lizzy Weiss, Big Beach TV and Brillstein Entertainment Partners  

New York, NY – February 9, 2018 – A ten-episode, half-hour female-driven dramedy, starring Elizabeth Olsen is coming to Facebook Watch. Facebook Watch is a video platform where episodic content, community and conversation come together. Topping off a year of headline-grabbing turns in Wind River, Ingrid Goes West and Marvel’s Avengers franchise, Elizabeth Olsen will star and executive produce the series created and written by Kit Steinkellner (Z: The Beginning of Everything). This marks the first time that Olsen has executive produced a series.  James Ponsoldt, who executive produced and directed the pilot for the acclaimed Netflix series Master of None (as well as features like The Spectacular Now and The End of the Tour) is executive producing and directing the pilot and multiple episodes of the series. Award winning writer Lizzy Weiss, creator of the Peabody award winning Switched at Birth, has signed on as showrunner.  The series will also be executive produced by Robin Schwartz, Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf for Big Beach TV, and Cynthia Pett, Brad Petrigala, and Jon Liebman for Brillstein Entertainment Partners.  Big Beach TV, a subsidiary of independent film powerhouse Big Beach, will serve as the studio. Award winning casting director Avy Kaufman (The Night Of, Damages, The Alienist, Life of Pi) has signed on to cast the series. The plot and title are being kept under wraps.   Elizabeth Olsen commented, “I couldn't be prouder of the group we have brought together for this show. Kit's story has been near and dear to me for years and I can’t wait to share our dark, funny, and complicated show with the world. “   Writer and creator Kit Steinkellner (Z: The Beginning of Everything) is a nationally-produced and award-winning playwright whose debut graphic novel Quince was published this fall. She is also adapting the memoir Mad About Men for television with Sundial Pictures. Weiss is the creator and executive producer of the Peabody-award winning drama Switched at Birth, which ran for five seasons and over 100 episodes on Freeform. In addition to the Peabody, the show also won a Television Critics Association (TCA) Award, the Imagen Award, an Alma Award, the American Scene Award, the Hollywood, Health & Society's Sentinel Award, and the NAD's Series Breakthrough Award. Weiss has personally won the Gracie Award, honoring programming created by women for women. Weiss also wrote the surf girl hit Blue Crush. Big Beach TV is currently in production on the Starz series Vida from showrunner Tanya Saracho, whose next project Brujas they are also developing. They have several other shows in development including Gorilla and the Bird with Channing Tatum's Free Association. On the feature side, Big Beach recently had two world premieres at Sundance 2018: Puzzle and White Fang and the company’s Beachside division will world premiere The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Puzzle sold worldwide rights to to Sony Pictures Classics on the heels of the premiere.  TriStar Pictures recently acquired worldwide rights to Big Beach’s You Are My Friend, based on the life of Fred Rogers, to be directed by Marielle Heller and star Tom Hanks as Rogers.    Elizabeth Olsen is represented by Gersh, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Sloane, Offer, Weber, and Dern. James Ponsoldt is represented by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein, & Selz. Kit Steinkellner is represented by ICM Partners, Circle of Confusion and Felker, Toczek, Suddleson and Abramson.  Lizzy Weiss is represented by UTA. Facebook Watch is available on mobile, desktop, and Facebook's TV apps.  

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About Facebook Watch

Facebook Watch is a place to discover and enjoy shows on Facebook. Home to a wide range of shows – from scripted comedy and drama, to competition and reality series, to individual creators and live sports – Facebook Watch is a video platform where episodic content, community and conversation come together. This is a personalized viewing experience, where you can discover new series based on what your friends are watching, and catch up on the shows you follow. Facebook Watch is available for free on mobile apps across Apple and Android, on desktop, laptop and on TV apps listed here:

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Do we tell our children that we’re running in the middle of the night because we’re Jewish?

The post on the Daily Stormer last December claimed I had been trying to extort and threaten the mother of Richard Spencer, a white nationalist whose family has a vacation home in our town. It had a photograph of me and contact information: phone numbers, email addresses, and links to social media profiles for me, my husband, my friends, my colleagues. It had my son’s Twitter handle. He is 12 years old. I felt fear for my life – just fear, absolutely fear, for our lives. We had no idea what this meant.

“Are y’all ready for an old fashioned Troll Storm?” Andrew Anglin, a neo-Nazi internet troll, asked his followers, talking about my family and me.

“Just make your opinions known. Tell them you are sickened by their Jew agenda,” he wrote. “And hey – if you’re in the area, maybe you should stop by and tell her in person what you think of her actions.” I’ve received emails, texts and voicemails threatening my life. I was told I would be driven to the brink of suicide. There were endless references to being thrown in the oven, being gassed. There were even suggestions: “Call her up, get her to take you on a real estate tour and get her alone.”

Sometimes, when I answered the phone, all I heard were gunshots.

“You really should have died in the Holocaust with the rest of your people.”

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Tucker Carlsons white supremacy hoax comments are as dangerous as they are deluded

Tucker Carlson, a man who has been praised by former Klan leader David Duke and celebrated by the editor of the neo-Nazi publication The Daily Stormer as “literally our greatest ally,” took to his Fox News show Monday night to declare that white supremacy is a “hoax.” Carlson, who in the past has opposed removing Confederate statutes from public property and parroted white nationalist themes about the fears of “demographic replacement,” told his viewers that, “If you were to assemble a list, a hierarchy of concerns, of problems this country faces, where would white supremacy be on the list? Right up there with Russia, probably. It’s actually not a real problem in America.”

Carlson continued on to dismiss the threat posed by white supremacy, stating that it was just “a hoax.” “It’s a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power,” he added.

Putting aside the grotesque callousness of his words, Carlson is woefully wrong when it comes to the facts.

There are families at this very moment grieving the loss of loved ones murdered in Saturday’s apparently racially motivated attack in El Paso. Carlson insults these families by calling the ideology that led to their deaths nothing more than a conspiracy theory. But putting aside the grotesque callousness of his words, Carlson is woefully wrong when it comes to the facts.

White supremacy is indeed a deadly problem in our nation — and a growing one at that. Not only has law enforcement and those who monitor the rise of hate crime documented this rise, I’ve experienced it firsthand.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the U.S. Senate just last month in July that his agency has made approximately 100 domestic terrorism arrests since October, explaining that “a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence.” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors hate crimes, found that murders on U.S. soil by right-wing extremists spiked 35 percent between 2017 and 2018.

Alarmingly, all 50 people killed in 2018 by extremist-related violence were killed by right-wing actors, according to the ADL, the highest number since 1995, when the Oklahoma City federal building was attacked by right wing terrorists. The ADL has also documented “an ever-growing number of white supremacist propaganda efforts” with its data showing a 182 percent increase in the number of incidents of these groups distributing racist and anti-Semitic fliers, banners and posters in 2018 when compared to 2017.

One of the most horrific recent white supremacist attacks on U.S. soil was carried out by Robert Bowers in 2018. In October of that year, and fueled by anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant views, Bowers walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 people because, in his view, they were helping immigrants come to America via migrant caravans.

This year hasn’t been much better. In April, white supremacist John Earnest posted his chilling plans on the website 8chan — just as the El Paso gunman posted his anti-immigrant manifesto last Saturday — before walking into a synagogue in Poway, California and killing one worshiper and injuring others. (The white supremacist in New Zealand who brutally murdered 50 Muslims at the Christchurch mosque had also posted his racist views on 8chan before the attack and apparently helped inspire the Poway shooter.)

On Tuesday, federal authorities announced they were opening a domestic terrorism investigation into the July 29 shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California that left three dead, including two children. The FBI noted that the shooter had been “exploring violent ideologies,” and NBC confirmed that he had posted online references to an 1890 white supremacist screed.

But again, white supremacy is not an issue simply in the news. For me, it’s personal.

In May 2017, I wrote an article for The Daily Beast calling on Trump to use the words “white supremacist terrorism” to describe three murders that had occurred earlier in 2017, by self-avowed white supremacists. (This was three months before the August 2017 Charlottesville rally.) In response, Andrew Anglin, the editor of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer who has praised Carlson in the past, fabricated tweets in my name that made it appear that I was taking credit for a deadly ISIS terror attack in Manchester, England. (I’m Muslim, so the smear that I’m a terrorist is particularly painful because it furthers horrible stereotypes about my faith.)

Anglin then wrote articles for his white supremacist publication based on these fabricated tweets and urged his readers to “confront me.” As a result, I became the target of numerous death threats. “Dean better pray he dies of natural causes before we get there,” read one such threat sent to me. This was concerning given that Daily Stormer readers have committed acts of violence in the past — Dylann Roof, who killed nine African Americans at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015 — had posted comments on the website.

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But I also refused to be silent or cower in fear. Instead, I filed a lawsuit against Anglin and his website for defamation. In June, a federal judge entered judgment in my favor in the amount of $4.1 million. If I ultimately collect any money from Anglin, I will donate it to the organizations that fight white supremacy.

I’m not the only one who has been attacked by these websites. Tanya Gersh, who is Jewish, was also targeted by Anglin and his readers with vile anti-Semitic barbs and death threats because Gersh had alerted locals to a well-known white nationalist’s ties to her community. Gersh also filed a lawsuit and in July a federal magistrate judge in Montana recommended that Anglin pay Gersh over $14 million in damages.

It’s unclear why Carlson is diminishing the threat of white supremacy. But he’s not just wrong, his comments are potentially aiding and abetting dangerous individuals. Americans need to be alert to the increasing risks posed by this deadly ideology. And those who deny that threat are only helping making our very real white supremacist problem worse.

Dean Obeidallah

Dean Obeidallah, a lawyer, hosts “The Dean Obeidallah Show” on SiriusXM radio’s Progress channel and is a columnist for The Daily Beast. 

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