Rechtsextremismus in Sachsen – Neonazis wollen Zwickau unterwandern – #terror

Offenbar bauen junge Neonazis in der sächsischen Region Zwickau im Geheimen ein Netzwerk auf. Nach NDR-Recherchen sind an dem Projekt Ex-Mitglieder einer verbotenen Vereinigung beteiligt. Ein Anhänger sitzt wegen Terrorverdachts in U-Haft. Im westsächsischen Zwickau versuchen junge Rechtsextreme seit vergangenem Jahr offenbar, mit einer Art Graswurzelarbeit gesellschaftlich Fuß zu fassen. Dafür wollen die Neonazis junge Gleichgesinnte aus dem gesamten Bundesgebiet in die Region ziehen lassen. Die Gruppierung formiert sich nach Informationen des Rechercheformats STRG_F (NDR/funk) um die Neonazis Sanny Kujath und Wladislav Sirbu. Sirbu war Anführer der 2020 verbotenen Neonazi-Vereinigung “Nordadler”.Begonnen hatte die Rekrutierung neuer Anhänger offenbar in der geschlossenen Telegram-Gruppe “Teutonischer Kreis”, in der sich im vergangenen Jahr gut ein Dutzend junger Rechtsextremisten sammelte. In der Gruppe wurden unter anderem Umzüge von Teenagern und jungen Erwachsenen in die Region Zwickau angekündigt. Auch ein Zeltlager mit Wanderung in der Nähe von Zwickau war im vergangenen Jahr in der Gruppe angekündigt worden, es schien eine Art Gründungstreffen zu werden. An dem Treffen im Sommer nahmen mindestens 14 Personen teil, darunter Sirbu und Kujath. Reporter von STRG_F konnten die Wanderung beobachten und die meisten Teilnehmer identifizieren. Insgesamt waren drei ehemalige Mitglieder der verbotenen Gruppierung “Nordadler” bei dem Treffen. An der Veranstaltung nahmen nach Angaben eines Organisators im internen Chat “nur NSler” teil – gemeint sind Nationalsozialisten.STRG_F-Reporter haben unter anderem online verdeckt in der Szene recherchiert. Über einen Account auf Telegram, der eindeutig Wladislav Sirbu zuzuordnen ist, erhielten die Reporter eine Art Plan der jungen Neonazis. Seit vergangenem Jahr arbeite die Gruppe in Zwickau daran, “nachhaltig was zu verändern”, schrieb Sirbu. Inzwischen seien sie zehn Personen in Zwickau, suchten deutschlandweit nach Verstärkung. (…) Politische Einflussnahme versuchen die Zwickauer Rechtsextremen über die Kleinpartei “Freie Sachsen”, die vom Verfassungsschutz als “eine als Partei organisierte Gruppierung von Neonationalsozialisten, NPD-Funktionären und weiteren Szeneangehörigen oder -sympathisanten” beobachtet wird. Sowohl Sirbu als auch Kujath traten bei den Kommunalwahlen im Juni für die Partei an, kamen jedoch nicht in Stadtrat und Kreistag. Kujath kandidiert bei den sächsischen Landtagswahlen am kommenden Sonntag auf einem hinteren Platz der Liste der “Freien Sachsen”.

via tagesschau: Rechtsextremismus in Sachsen – Neonazis wollen Zwickau unterwandern

Neo-Nazi Terrorist Group Using Steve Bannon Account to Radicalize People – #terrorgram

exclusive: Group is covertly seeding violent propaganda on to mainstream social media channels, report finds As the presidential election approaches, a recently designated neo-Nazi terrorist group is covertly seeding violent propaganda on to mainstream social media channels – exposing tens of thousands of unknowing followers to radicalizing messages – according to background research and a report provided to the Guardian by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). One of those channels on Telegram purports to be associated with Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, with an administrator claiming in group chats discovered by ISD to have had direct contact with the longtime Trump ally who is well-known for playing footsie with extremists and admitting to fomenting revolution. The UK government listed the Terrogram collective as an official terrorist entity in April. The move spiked public interest in the shadowy network of violent neo-Nazi propagandists on Telegram that preaches accelerationism, which demands followers hasten the collapse of society through acts of terrorism. Terrorgram has already had success inspiring adherents. The Bratislava shooter who killed two people outside of a gay bar in 2022 cited it in his manifesto. Just last week, a teenage suspected supporter in Turkey carried out a mass stabbing at a mosque. Followers of Terrorgram in Canada and in the US have already been subject to terrorism-related charges in recent years.

cia hstoday: Neo-Nazi Terrorist Group Using Steve Bannon Account to Radicalize People

Rudy Giuliani finds a new low: platforming a Nazi

Rudy Giuliani has fallen low in the four years since conducting a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia, which kickstarted the former New York City mayor’s inglorious era of election denialism, indictments, lawsuits, disbarment, debt and bankruptcy. It’s hard to imagine how the man once widely admired for leading his city in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack could fall any lower. It would take something like hosting a Nazi on his YouTube channel. Which is exactly what Giuliani did on Aug. 23 following the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s presidential nomination. Speaking on his show “America’s Mayor Live,” Giuliani introduced the 10-minute segment with Rachel Siegel, a woman who drew attention during the previous week for her racist actions, Hitler salutes and antisemitic protests outside the Democratic National Convention. Giuliani said on his show that Siegel was 21 years old, suggesting that her youth gave her a unique perspective

via rawstory: Rudy Giuliani finds a new low: platforming a Nazi

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Datenleck oder Hackerangriff? Angaben von #BSW-Mitgliedern landen bei #Correctiv

Partei reicht Anzeigen wegen Datenschutzverletzung ein. Correctiv hatte Mitglieder angeschrieben. Gegenseitige Vorwürfe von Partei und Presseunternehmen. Die Partei Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (BSW) ist nach eigenen Angaben möglicherweise erneut Ziel eines Hackerangriffs geworden. Unmittelbarer Nutznießer scheint das in der Vergangenheit aus Bundes- und Landesmitteln sowie Ministerien mitfinanzierte Medienunternehmen Correctiv – Recherchen für die Gesellschaft gGmbH zu sein. Der Vorstand des BSW gab bekannt, dass personenbezogene Daten von Newsletter-Abonnenten in die Hände der investigativen Journalisten de gGmbH Correctiv gelangt sein könnten. Diese Informationen wurden dem Vorstand durch den Pressesprecher der Partei “Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht” am selben Tag übermittelt. Correctiv hatte zuvor angegeben, über einen Datensatz zu verfügen, der rund 70.000 Personen betrifft und neben persönlichen Kontaktinformationen auch codierte Mitgliederlisten, Zusagen zu einer Wahlparty sowie Details zu Landesbeauftragten und Unterstützern in verschiedenen Bundesländern umfasst. Unklar ist, welchen journalistischen Wert die personenbezogenen Daten haben.

via telepolis: Datenleck oder Hackerangriff? Angaben von BSW-Mitgliedern landen bei Correctiv

Far-Right ‘#Terrorgram’ Chatrooms Are Fueling a Wave of Power Grid Attacks

Extremist communities see damaging power substations as a way to fuel unrest and ultimately overthrow the US. (…) A resident named Michael Campbell said he ducked at the sound. Another witness told police they thought they were hearing fireworks. The noise turned out to be someone shooting a rifle at a power substation next door to Campbell’s home. The substation, operated by the utility Duke Energy Corp., consists of equipment that converts electricity into different voltages as it’s transported to the area and then steered into individual houses. The shots hit the radiator of an electrical transformer, a sensitive piece of technology whose importance would likely be understood only by utility company employees. It began dumping a “vast amount” of oil, according to police reports. A subsequent investigation has pointed to a local right-wing group, one of a wave of attacks or planned attacks on power infrastructure. By 8:10 the lights in Carthage went out. Minutes later, a security alarm went off at a Duke Energy substation 10 miles away, this one protected from view by large pine trees. When company personnel responded, they found that someone had shot its transformer radiator, too. Police found shell casings on the ground at the site and noticed someone had slashed the tires on nearby service trucks. The substations were designed to support each other, with one capable of maintaining service if the other went down. Knocking out both facilities prevented the company from rerouting power. Police described the two incidents as a coordinated attack. About 45,000 families and businesses remained dark for four days. This was a burden for area grocery stores and local emergency services. One woman, 87-year-old Karin Zoanelli, died in the hours after the shooting when the blackout caused her oxygen machine to stop operating. The North Carolina Medical Examiner’s office classified the death as a homicide. The attack on Duke’s facilities in Moore County remains unsolved, but law enforcement officials and other experts suspect it’s part of a rising trend of far-right extremists targeting power infrastructure in an attempt to sow chaos. The most ambitious of these saboteurs hope to usher in societal collapse, paving the way for the violent overthrow of the US government, according to researchers who monitor far-right communities. Damaging the power grid has long been a fixation of right-wing extremists, who have plotted such attacks for many years. They’ve been getting a boost recently from online venues such as “Terrorgram,” a loose network of channels on the social media platform Telegram where users across the globe advocate violent white supremacism. In part, people use Terrorgram to egg one another on—a viral meme shows a stick figure throwing a Molotov cocktail at electrical equipment. People on the forum have also seized on recent anti-immigration riots in the UK, inciting people there to clash with police. In June 2022, months before the Moore County shootings, users on the forum began offering more practical support in the form of a 261-page document titled “Hard Reset,” which includes specific directions on how to use automatic weapons, explosives and mylar balloons to disrupt electricity. One of the document’s suggestions is to shoot high-powered firearms at substation transformers.

via bloomberg: Far-Right ‘Terrorgram’ Chatrooms Are Fueling a Wave of Power Grid Attacks

Elon #Musk Tweets Plagiarized Article Bylined by Fake Writer – #fakenews #liar

The article was bylined by a fake writer — and plagiarized word-for-word from an alt-right conspiracy website. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, used his X-formerly-Twitter account to boost a plagiarized article bylined by a fake journalist. On Saturday, Musk reshared a screenshot of a Medium article on X — the social media website he also owns — by the noted shitposter who goes by the handle “Wall Street Silver.” The article’s headline reads “45% of Women Estimated to be Single and Childless by 2030,” with subtext declaring that “recent data” estimates “that 45% of women between ages 25 and 44 will be single and childless by the time 2030 rolls around,” and that “the number of single women in the U.S. is expected to rise 1.2% every year.” These figures are followed by images of women including the trans activist Dylan Mulvaney. Musk, a leading figure in the pronatalist movement, added the caption: “This is extremely concerning!!” Immediately, there were some red flags — starting with the framing of the numbers themselves. Forty-five percent of women in general and 45 percent of women between the ages of 25 and 44 are very different figures; that the article was posted on a self-publishing site like Medium, where there’s no guarantee of an editorial process, rang further alarm bells. So we decided to do some digging. As it turns out, a few Google searches and some basic scrutiny revealed that Musk shared a wildly unreliable, mangled piece of information published to Medium under the byline of a fake writer — and somehow, that wasn’t even the worst thing about it.

via futurism: Elon Musk Tweets Plagiarized Article Bylined by Fake Writer

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Telegram Founder’s Arrest Part of Broad Investigation, French Prosecutors Say

A case was opened last month to investigate child pornography, drug sales, fraud and other criminal activities on the platform. The app’s founder, Pavel Durov, was detained over the weekend near Paris. Prosecutors in France said on Monday that Pavel Durov, the entrepreneur who runs the Telegram messaging platform, had been arrested in connection with an investigation opened last month into criminal activity on the app and a lack of cooperation with law enforcement. Mr. Durov, 39, was detained on Saturday at Le Bourget Airport near Paris after landing on a private plane from Azerbaijan. He has not been charged and remains in custody, which can be extended through Wednesday, according to prosecutors. Laure Beccuau, the Paris prosecutor, said in a statement that the arrest was part of an investigation opened on July 8 “against person unnamed” on a raft of potential charges, including complicity in the distribution of child pornography and selling of drugs, money laundering, and a refusal to cooperate with law enforcement. The investigation is being handled by cybercrime and anti-fraud specialists, Ms. Beccuau said. “It is within this procedural framework that Pavel Durov was questioned by the investigators,” she said. (…) Telegram has more than 900 million users, with growth driven partly by a commitment to free speech. Telegram’s light oversight over content on the platform has helped people living under authoritarian governments communicate, but it has also made the app a haven for harmful content. Telegram works as a standard messaging app, but also hosts channels and groups in which large numbers of people can broadcast ideas and communicate, with minimal moderation. Telegram has long been on the radar of law enforcement agencies because terrorist organizations, drug sellers, weapons dealers and far-right extremist groups have used it for communicating, recruiting and organizing.

via nytimes: Telegram Founder’s Arrest Part of Broad Investigation, French Prosecutors Say

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