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The horrific scenes of destruction in the wake of Hurricane Helene are being exacerbated by a massive coordinated right wing misinformation and disinformation campaign. Far right media outlets, politicians, and ‘influencers’ are pushing bogus claims of refugee and migrant linked FEMA funding shortages, donation seizures, and eminent domain land grabs. Georgia Congressional Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has previously blamed California wildfires on Jewish space lasers, is making bat-shit public claims that ‘they’ can manipulate weather, and are using these powers to influence the upcoming presidential election. Infowars host Alex Jones’ brings similar accusations a little closer to home alleging the Pentagon having ‘dozens of giant weather control platforms’ aimed directly at the United States. X.com owner and richest man-child in the world Elon Musk has not only let his social media network be overrun with confusing and conflicting disinformation, he is personally disseminating false claims to his 200 million followers. Bad actors can also be found on the ground with a variety of violent fascist and neo-Nazi groups including chapters of the Proud Boys, Patriot Front, American Blackshirts Movement, and various regional ‘Active Clubs’ attempting to co-opt the tragedy for recruitment and propaganda purposes. All of these groups are, to varying degrees, acting as de-facto far-right militias or freikorps styled vigilante fighting groups. Many of the Proud Boys leadership are currently serving long prison sentences for sedition and other serious crimes committed during the January 6th, 2021 insurrection. The Active Clubs, Patriot Front, and various other more openly neo-Nazi groups are actively conducting paramilitary and martial arts training in furtherance of an imagined race war that will bring about an end to civil society and enable them to establish an all-white ethno-state.

via anonymous comrades collective: Sturm und Drang: Nazi Extremists Exploit Hurricane Tragedy

Former KKK members, the founder of the antisemitic Goyim Defense League, and a QAnon promoter are all advising Irish far-right communities, which are increasingly looking to the US for inspiration. The claims could have been taken word-for-word from any one of numerous US far-right websites in recent months. “Reports are surfacing suggesting that [lawmakers] may have been involved in transporting large numbers of refugees and immigration applicants to polling stations to secure votes for individual candidates,” the author of the article claimed. This wasn’t a conspiracist asserting that Honduran migrants are being imported into the US to replace swing-state Republican voters, though; the claim came from a website called The Irish Channel. A new report published on Tuesday by researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue outlines how the website has used generative AI to create articles that have been “heavily influenced by similar election denial efforts in the US.” (…) In July, the Irish Times reported that Frank Silva, a prominent member of the Los Angeles branch of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1980s as well as the violent neo-Nazi group The Order, had joined at least five online calls with members of Ireland’s far-right community. During the calls, Silva reportedly offered advice to those taking part in anti-immigrant protests, including tips on how to make their content go viral and how to handle interactions with police.

via wired: The Influence of the US Far Right on Ireland Is Growing