Kanye West – now known as Ye – unleashed a hateful rant last Thursday during a bizarre appearance on Alex Jones’ Infowars. Encompassing Holocaust denial, praise for Adolf Hitler and a request that people “stop dissing the Nazis,” the diatribe was the culmination of months of explicitly antisemitic rhetoric from the musician.
Dozens of extremists on Twitter now sport the “blue check” once reserved for verified accounts, after signing up for the paid Twitter Blue service under policies instituted by the platform’s new proprietor, Elon Musk.
Conspiracy theories about the home invasion and hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, continue to spread across conservative media, social media and “alt-tech” sites, even as a federal criminal complaint appears to debunk false narratives extremists and right-wing influencers have spread.
Alex Jones’ anonymous Bitcoin donor dropped nearly $6 million more worth of that cryptocurrency on the embattled extremist and has now given him close to $8 million in 26 days, Hatewatch has determined.
An unidentified person donated over 2 million U.S. dollars in Bitcoin to an address advertised on the conspiracy website Infowars in April, Hatewatch found, potentially buoying the finances of embattled extremist Alex Jones.
When Alex Jones pushed the election fraud conspiracy “Stop the Steal” campaign in the run-up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, his words appear to have driven significant traffic to his multimillion-dollar business.
Jozef Victor Nathan Gherman, the founder of a company whose clients lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency investments, appears also to play an integral part in organizing the finances of white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ America First non-profit, Hatewatch found.
The federal government program intended to support businesses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic awarded more than $20,000 in forgivable loans to a far-right livestreamer and treasurer for a white nationalist nonprofit, Hatewatch found.
The founder of the controversial, hard right-linked facial recognition company Clearview AI sought to recruit the New York Police Department to endorse their services to an anti-child abuse non-profit, Hatewatch has learned.
A Canadian technology startup – which already provides monetized streaming for a range of white power propagandists, hate group leaders and a wanted fugitive – has now created a custom-made platform for white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes after a payment processor apparently forced him off their main platform.
