After Facebook and Web Host Bans, Far-Right Extremists Are Encrypting and Going IRL

After Facebook and Web Host Bans, Far-Right Extremists Are Encrypting and Going IRL

5 years ago
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wx74/after-facebook-and-web-host-bans-far-right-extremists-are-encrypting-and-going-irl

After Facebook and web hosts recently began banning white nationalist content, neo-Nazi extremist groups are urging members to meet offline and to use encrypted networks, Motherboard has learned.

The strategy mimics ISIS efforts as it faced a crackdown on its content by major online platforms in 2015, during the height of a migration into its ranks by western followers. At the time, a spate of ISIS attacks in Europe exposed how the terror group planned operations and recruited using social media networks, leading Silicon Valley giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft to ban ISIS content.