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A U.S. online content creation company that features several prominent right-wing influencers — including one from B.C. — was heavily financed by a Russian state-controlled media outlet as part of a “secret influence campaign” to sow discord and chaos, prosecutors allege.

The U.S. Justice Department does not allege any wrongdoing by the influencers, noting that some of them were given false information about the source of the company’s funding.

An indictment filed by U.S. federal prosecutors in New York this week charged Russian nationals Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afansyeva, both staffers at Russian state-backed news site RT, formerly known as Russia Today, with conspiracy to violate America’s Foreign Agents Registration Act and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

It is alleged that the Russians funnelled $10 million to covertly finance a Tennessee-based online content creation company as part of a “scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging.”

While the indictment does not directly identify the company, it says the company describes itself as a “network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues.” That is the description used by Tenet Media. Its stable of half a dozen conservative influencers have been featured in thousands of videos on multiple social media platforms, including YouTube, X, and Instagram.

Those influencers include Surrey native Lauren Southern. In the nine months leading up to July 31 of this year, Southern created 94 videos for the network’s social media channels. In one of her videos, the 29-year-old describes the 2021 discovery of suspected unmarked graves at a former Kamloops residential school as a “hoax”.

Two months ago, Southern created a video titled “My home town’s been destroyed” that blamed mass immigration from “countries like India” for ruining the city of Surrey. “It’s not looking like Canada,” she said.

In 2015, Southern unsuccessfully ran in the federal election as a Libertarian candidate in the Langley-Aldergrove riding.

Southern did not respond to a request for comment from Postmedia.

Some of Tenet’s other political commentators include Americans Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, each of whom has an online following in the millions.

As of Thursday, Rubin, Johnson and Pool released statements saying they were unaware of the alleged Russian influence.

“We are disturbed by the allegations in today’s indictment, which make clear that myself and other influencers were victims in this alleged scheme,” Pool said on X.

The indictment alleges the network’s coverage “contain(ed) commentary on events and issues in the United States, such as immigration, inflation, and other topics … consistent with the government of Russia’s interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions.”

“The Justice Department will not tolerate attempts by an authoritarian regime to exploit our country’s free exchange of ideas in order to covertly further its own propaganda efforts, and our investigation into this matter remains ongoing,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement on Wednesday.

Tenet Media emerged following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine when Russian news organizations were no longer able to operate in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the U.K. as a result of sanctions.

According to the indictment, following a terrorist attack at a music venue in Moscow in March of this year, one of the accused Russian operatives, posing as an editor, encouraged one of the founders of the U.S. content creation company to blame Ukraine and the U.S.

“I think we can focus on the Ukraine/U.S. angle,” Afanasyeva allegedly wrote in a message. “The mainstream media spread fake news that ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, yet ISIS itself never made such statements. All terrorists are now detained while they were heading to the border with Ukraine which makes it even more suspicious why they would want to go to Ukraine to hide.”

At least one content creator for the U.S. company was paid $400,000 a month for four videos a week, plus a $100,000 signing bonus and an additional performance bonus, the indictment states.

*With files from The Associated Press

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Russian national Maria Butina recently pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered agent for her government during the 2016 presidential campaign, revealing how well Russia knows the fault lines of U.S. politics and culture, and the extent to which it will go to divide and conquer American democracy.

Russia’s target was the National Rifle Association, which represents the zenith of discord and dysfunction in U.S. politics. With a stranglehold over Republican officeholders, the organization has stoked the most polarizing cultural fracture in the United States: the gun debate.

The debate is deeply polarizing, even though consensus exists on both the left and the right about the need for greater regulation, evidenced Tuesday by the Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks. Yet the NRA has spent decades inflaming fears of “big government” by pushing the concept that any common-sense gun control represents an attack on the Second Amendment. Russia seized on the gun debate because it is ripe for misinformation that can further polarize Americans, even when Americans agree more than they disagree.

Founded in 1871 by a Union army veteran to encourage greater marksmanship and sports shooting, the NRA has only recently become a powerful, and controversial, political force. The group began to develop an interest in politics during the 1930s, but it was not until 1975 that the NRA created its Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) to defend the Second Amendment from supposed legislative threats.

Although the NRA was influential in forming federal gun laws between the 1930s and 1960s, it was not until the mid-1970s that politics became its raison d’etre. That shift happened just as the politics of the group began to change. Before 1977, the NRA represented the national consensus on common-sense gun regulations, even agreeing with the need for sales of handguns to be subject to background checks. Enter Harlon Carter. Carter took charge of the ILA in its first year of operation and demanded that the NRA become more politically focused, leading to his dismissal in 1976. At the NRA’s annual convention in 1977, however, Carter regained power after being elected executive vice president. From this position, he dictated the NRA’s rise to power as an anti-regulation lobbying force.

The NRA’s political turn transformed it into a prominent partisan group with a highly engaged membership and, eventually, the ability to defeat any meaningful gun-control legislation. There was a clear synergy between the political rhetoric of the NRA and Republicans’ opposition to federal initiatives that supposedly transgressed American liberties. As the NRA became a powerful fundraiser, supporting congressional candidates for the first time in 1980, Republicans became submissive to its demands.

Over time, that left it an increasingly partisan organization, as Democrats sympathetic to the NRA’s agenda and Republican proponents of gun control left office. The NRA gained newfound political might after Democrats muscled the Assault Weapons Ban through Congress in 1994 and lost control of both chambers the same year, with veteran Democrats crediting their defeat to the NRA’s opposition. Party leaders concluded that crossing the NRA in the future would be politically deadly.

The NRA also became an increasing political powerhouse, thanks to prolific fundraising. In the first presidential election cycle following the 1999 Columbine massacre, then the United States’ deadliest school shooting, the NRA raised $20 million for elections on both the federal and state level. By 2016, the NRA dwarfed this figure, disbursing $419 million in an attempt to avoid a continuation of Obama-era gun control advocacy under Hillary Clinton.

The organization also wasn’t shy about working to defeat Republicans in primary elections who crossed its priorities.

As a result, despite tragic and horrific school shootings, like the mass shooting that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., six years ago this month, gun-control measures remain bottled up in Congress. The inability of Congress to protect American citizens through bipartisan legislation at the federal level has resulted in a patchwork of gun regulations across the country, with so many loopholes that states’ stricter laws are rendered largely meaningless as people and guns cross state lines.

In October 2017, following the massacre in Las Vegas, there was a brief moment of bipartisan reconciliation as people became familiar with the accessibility of bump stocks, which allow a semiautomatic weapon to become akin to a fully automatic killing machine, producing the carnage that occurred on the Strip.

And yet even with the support of President Trump, the ban on bump stocks was delayed for almost 15 months, due to the intransigence of some lawmakers and the persistent lobbying of the NRA. Depending on where one stands on this issue, the ban indicates either Trump’s lack of appreciation of the hold the NRA has on his party or the faintest glimmer of moral courage (or at least an ability to read the polls).

Russia’s infiltration of the NRA represents an ingenious maneuver to sow greater disunity among U.S. voters. It’s also instructive to Americans about the danger of the NRA. The group exacerbates fault lines in the ongoing culture wars, even though Americans have far more in common on gun laws than the NRA would like them to believe. The power wielded by the organization distinguishes it as a special interest that contorts democracy, making it the perfect tool for Russia.

Russia understands that the NRA’s ability to polarize Americans are part of a self-destructive tendency within American political debates. The Parkland shooting in Florida earlier this year and the March for Our Lives movement that followed quickly turned into a partisan brawl during this midterm election year.

While checks and balances protect U.S. democracy, there are only limited checks on accessibility to guns. The proliferation of mass shootings and increasing gun violence — just-released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data revealsthat more people died from guns last year than in any other year since at least 1968 — exposes how the greatest threat to American peace and prosperity is sometimes divisions among Americans themselves. The Russians understand that. It’s past time Americans understand it, as well.

Laura Ellyn Smith teaches at Oxford University while undertaking a second doctorate in U.S. history. She is also an adjunct assistant professor at Richmond the American International University.follow on X @OvalOfferings

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If the alt-right is galvanized by one overarching narrative, it is that demographic change will reduce whites to a hated minority and eventually lead to white extinction. The alt-right frequently expounds on and alludes to the declining white birth rate and refers to concerning numbers of suicide among middle-aged white men, as well as the devastating opioid epidemic and its impact on white families. Recent surveys do show that American women of all backgrounds are having fewer babies, less than the replacement level of 2.1, mainly due to deep economic concerns like the high costs of child care. Depending on how race and ethnicity data in the US Census is interpreted, non-Hispanic whites will constitute less than 50 percent of the population around 2050. Alt-righters weaponize census projections relying on the narrowest percentages to count whites (as non-Hispanic whites with no mixed-race identity), and thereby hype their claims of impending white genocide. These problematic projections serve the alt-right well in whipping up demographic fear, which is propagated by mainstream right-wing pundits like Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, and Tucker Carlson. The alt-right twists these fertility and mortality statistics away from questions of health disparities and income equality to prima facie evidence of a nearly conspiratorial campaign of white extinction.

One response to looming “white extinction anxiety” is to produce white babies—many more white babies—principally of Northern and Western European ancestry. Unlike immigration or refugee bans, forced deportations, or the reintroduction of racial segregation, which require heavy-handed policies, white nationalism can grow through procreative means, boosted by pronatalist programs. As one contributor to Counter-Currents proposes: “Having three—or five or eight—White children is probably the most ‘pro-White’ thing a person can do—and the most resistant to any charge of ‘racism.’ How about that?”28 Propagating wildly does mean that alt-right men will need to convince themselves that procreation and coupling—and a likely future of vanilla sex with a wife—are enticing. This tamed path of husband and father is far afield from the erotic conquests and hook-ups prioritized in the manosphere.

Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents broaches the difficulties of convincing horny and entitled 20- and 30-somethings to bite the bullet and breed. The smackdown he gives this audience focuses on the urgency of perpetuating ancestral white bloodlines: “If you are worried about having kids, or you’re not sure if it’s a good idea, or you’re not sure if you’re up to it, or you’re afraid that you’re bringing them into a terrible world, just think about all of the ancestors that you had going back to the very beginning of our race. Every one of these people probably had it harder than you.” He asks them the berating question: ”Are you going to be the whiny little maggot who brings all of their striving and struggles to oblivion because you just can’t get your act together and decide to go off the goddamn pill or stop using condoms or whatever and just take the plunge and carry the race forward one more generation?"

Appeals to ancestry abound in the alt-right, and nationalist women express some of the loudest calls for white-baby making. In 2017, Wife with a Purpose, the alt-right social media activist who chronicles her life as a proud nationalist and Mormon mother, was taken with a tweet posted by Iowa representative Steve King. Itself riffing off a tweet from the acerbic right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wildersabout the threat of Muslims to the Netherlands and the foreseen demographic disappearance of whites, King aped, “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” This resulted in swift condemnation and ridicule in many quarters of the mainstream media, and King himself received bemused and angry tweets from congressional colleagues, some posting photos of their smiling multiracial children. Wife with a Purpose, who asserts that “her primary duty is having children and supporting her husband,” issued a “white baby challenge,” throwing down the breeding gauntlet: “As a mother of 6, I challenge families to have as many white babies as I have contributed.” Once her challenge went viral on social media, Wife with a Purpose received much censure. Telling, however, were the thousands of comments praising and defending her on her YouTube channel: “I stand in solidarity with Ayla,” “Love This Woman!,” “She is 100% right,” and “Make White Babies Great Again!”

Red Ice’s Radio 3Fourteen, hosted by Lana Lokteff, is the most visible online arena for discussions of nationalism from a female alt-right perspective. Lokteff’s interviews and vlogs receive 10,000 to 200,00 views, depending on the topics, which range from the benefits of New Age herbs to the wonders of being a traditional wife, and from criticisms of the positive depictions of interracial couples on the mainstream media to the hazards of “migrant invasions.” Lokteff and Red Ice TV provide the online base camp for anetworked public of alt-right women, who act as a chorus to demand preservation of the exalted Western civilization that their white men built. In her vlog They Want You Dead White Man! Lokteff delivers an impassioned commentary as a cascade of sensationalistic headlines flash across the screen and paint a frenzied picture of relentless attacks on white men in Europe and the United States. Lokteff reminds her viewers that straight white men are the world’s great inventors and creators and, moreover, that these tolerant and kind souls always are the ones to come to rescue the less fortunate. What would the world be like without these saviors?...

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in a podcast interview posted last spring, Nicole Jorgenson, a singer and former schoolteacher in North Dakota, explains to her host that she has never been happier since marrying and having children. And yet between cute pastoral anecdotes of growing her own vegetables and making banana bread, it soon becomes clear that Ms. Jorgenson is advocating something sinister — not just a return to agrarian motherhood.

She lived in Germany temporarily, she says, but left just before “an influx of refugees took over the country.” She just had a child and thinks the new baby is beautiful — but maybe not quite in the same way all mothers do: “I always wanted children that looked like me,” she says, “blond-haired, blue-eyed babies, but I kind of had to say it under my breath.”

By the time the interviewer begins to gush about how wonderful it is that Ms. Jorgenson and her husband are both of Norwegian heritage — “you guys come from the same blood” — it’s clear what political demographic both women are catering to. Ms. Jorgenson is being interviewed on Radio 3Fourteen, a white supremacist talk radio program; it is interviewing her because she considers herself a tradwife.

The digital far right, frequently called the alt-right, is largely regarded as a men-only space. The photographs from the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., were striking for the lack of female faces in a sea of button-down-wearing snarls. The movement shares DNA with so-called incels, a network of men who feel women have unfairly denied them sexual relationships. And it is defined in part by its misogyny and its anti-feminist, anti-woman language.

But some members of the alt-right have been weighing whether the absence of women from their movement is a problem. In 2016, the Swedish nationalist Marcus Follin, who calls himself The Golden One on YouTube, made a video titled “The Women Question.” In it, he urged his followers to dial down the open misogyny and consider new strategies to win over more women to the white nationalist cause. Mr. Follin was responding to statistics from the Austrian presidential election that year, in which female voters helped swing the election away from the candidate of the far-right Freedom Party. “You might not like that women have the right to vote, you might not like that anyonehas the right to vote,” Mr. Follin conceded, “but it’s about winning a long-term political victory.”

Enter the tradwives.

Over the past few years, dozens of YouTube and social media accounts have sprung up showcasing soft-spoken young white women who extol the virtues of staying at home, submitting to male leadership and bearing lots of children — being “traditional wives.” These accounts pepper their messages with scrapbook-style collections of 1950s advertising images showing glamorous mothers in lipstick and heels with happy families and beautiful, opulent homes. They give their videos titles like “Female Nature and Advice for Young Ladies,” “How I Homeschool” and “You Might be a Millennial Housewife If….”

But running alongside what could be mistaken for a peculiar style of mommy-vlogging is a virulent strain of white nationalism.:{One such advocate who calls herself “Wife With a Purpose” made international headlines last year when she issued something she titled “}:{.” Citing falling white birthrates in the West, she urged her followers to procreate. “I’ve made six!” she wrote. “Match or beat me!” Wife With a Purpose might be the most prominent and certainly most openly white supremacist of the women who call themselves tradwives, but she is not an anomaly: These accounts veer dizzyingly from Cosmo-style tips on pleasing your husband to racist musings about “ghetto music” to, on some occasions, calls to reassert their vision of the white race. The seemingly anachronistic way they dress is no accident. }::{The deliberately hyperfeminine aesthetics are constructed precisely to mask the authoritarianism of their ideology.}:

There is nothing particularly new about this message within the far right. And tradwives still constitute a niche digital subculture. There’s a clear market for their message — the biggest tradwife accounts usually surge to about 10,000 YouTube subscribers in just a year of posting — but their male alt-right counterparts have 10 times the number of followers.

Still, tradwives remain worth contemplating because they help illuminate some of the forces that drive the alt-right and where the movement might be going. The alt-right is abhorrent; it is racist and hate-filled. But it is, like any other mass movement, also driven by a sense of dissatisfaction with modern life. Tradwives help us understand the sources of that dissatisfaction by revealing points of overlap between red-lipsticked mothers of six and the men who complain of being “kissless virgins.”

A frustrated yearning for a mythic past of material abundance, at a time when it is becoming increasingly difficult for young people to build careers and achieve financial security, is not gender-specific. Young people face ever more obstacles, higher demands and continually dwindling returns in the form of work benefits, job security and pay. We shouldn’t underestimate how some young white women, when faced with this bleak economic landscape and then presented with a rosy image of 1950s domestic bliss, may look back to 1960s Friedan-era feminism as having cheated them out of a family and a luxurious lifestyle, all supported by a single income. The men on the alt-right might point to diversity initiatives and mass immigration as having dismantled their career prospects; the women are furious that they have to consider career prospects at all.

Tradwives also point to the ways that the half-finished work of the sexual revolution has brought about not just male but also female discontents. The likes of pickup artists and incels claim that the sexual revolution has brought about a consequence-free life of pleasure for young women, while socially awkward or unattractive men are left behind. But the existence of tradwives points to a more nuanced reality. Female fears of objectification and sexual violence remain as potent as ever; the tradwife subculture exploits them by blaming modernity for such phenomena, and then offers chastity, marriage and motherhood as an escape. As one such YouTube commentator, a teenager, told her audience, traditionalism does “what feminism is supposed to do” in preventing women from being made into “sexual objects” and treated “like a whore.”

It’s a lie, of course. Modesty has never been a safeguard against degradation or rape, and we know that a rapist is no less likely to hurt a woman simply because he’s married to her. But it’s not difficult to see how it could be a seductive lie; the continuous headlines made by the #MeToo movement, paradoxically, were eagerly shared among tradwife networks, as supposed proof that sexual liberation had made life unacceptably dangerous for women.

At present, these shared dissatisfactions haven’t helped the alt-right recruit significant numbers of women because, quite simply, the men cannot keep their seething misogyny in check. Women, even those initially sympathetic to alt-right ideas, face blistering hostility on alt-right message boards and forums when they try to participate. :{Several longtime alt-right commentators have begun to post lengthy warnings denouncing “ trad thots” — women they deem disingenuous in their support — who they say latch onto the movement as a source of fame or money. Lauren Southern, an alt-right YouTube commentator, recently put out a video called “}:{,” in which she pleaded with her audience to stop calling her a “degenerate” for not being married with children at age 22. }:It’s exceedingly difficult to feel sorry for Ms. Southern, whose stunts have included attempting to block direly needed refugee rescue boats off the coast of Italy.:{But it’s understandable that even women with white nationalist sympathies may not be leaping to sign up for this kind of treatment.}:

Like most political networks primarily based on the internet, the alt-right evolved extremely fast.When I began studying digital anti-feminist and far-right networks for my doctorate in 2015, the number of women in these spaces seemed small enough to be insignificant. There has since been such a surfeit of women beginning careers off such networks, many infusing their particular brand of far-right ideology with “trad” rhetoric, that it now seems irresponsible not to think about them, their roles and what they reveal. The material conditions that allow far-right movements to thrive seem unlikely to change, and feminism’s work is far from done in countering the kind of sexual anxieties that the alt-right exploits. Tradwives may seem like a lunatic fringe at present, but they may not stay one for long.

Annie Kelly is a Ph.D. student at the University of East Anglia researching the impact of digital cultures on anti-feminism and the far-right.

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Conservative journalist and author Lauren Southern appeared on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Sunday to discuss the illegal immigrant caravan, the Defend Europe Alps mission, and white persecution in South Africa.}:

“The first thing I want to address is the shocking media coverage on [the Central American migrant caravan at the U.S.’s southern border] and [the media’s] attempts to correlate or almost combine the words ‘refugee’ and ‘migrant’,” Southern told host Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House.

"Almost every website I’ve read about this crisis has combined the words ‘refugee’ and ‘migrant’ as if they are the same thing, and that is spitting in the face of every genuine refugee in the world because these are not the same things,” Southern declared. “You have people that are trying to come over for economic opportunities, you have people trying to come in to go on welfare systems, or even to commit crime in America versus people who are genuinely escaping political persecution.”

“And in this case, you have people coming over from, yes, relatively poor countries; Guatemala and Honduras, however, being in a poor country does not make you a refugee. If that were the case, America would have to assimilate and bring in far more people than are already even in the country,” she continued. “This would be a large amount of the world, a large amount of Africa, a lot of China, a lot of South America, and that’s just not sustainable. A nation can only sustain so many people when it has socialist systems in place, and America, unfortunately, has already become so generous with strangers that it’s now becoming unsustainable for itself.”

On the topic of Defend Europe’s Alps mission, which featured Identitarian activists defending the French Alps border from illegal immigrants, Southern proclaimed, “Initially, looking at this mission, I thought it was going to be something that would just be symbolic.”

“Like they had helicopters in the sky with ‘Defend Europe’ written on it, they built a little wall, they had flairs, and signs, and even an airplane with ‘Defend Europe’, and it looked like it was going to be symbolic, but over the past week and night they’ve been patrolling the mountains. They’ve actually sent back around eight illegal migrants, bringing them to the police,” she explained. “There’s been no violence, nothing, these activists have just been working in collaboration with local officers, and really looking at this, the amount of money they’ve saved in potential criminal costs or welfare costs from each migrant that comes into the country, they’ve probably paid off the cost of the mission of having these hundred activists down there, so it’s been rather shocking to watch that a bunch of twenty-year-olds are doing a better job it seems than the actual French government in protecting the Alpine borders.”

During her radio appearance, Southern also discussed her documentary about white persecution in South Africa,claiming the situation in the country was worse than she imagined.

“The government is not just ignoring the crisis, they’re recording these murders as robberies gone wrong, and we’re talking about murders where people are being hung upside down, tortured, and their families and children are being killed, and the government is recording this as a robbery gone wrong,” Southern declared. “Beyond just ignoring this, you have leaders within the governments, certainly the Economic Freedom Fighters, the EFF, who are on stages at their political meetings, they have ten percent of control of the government, singing, ‘Shoot and kill the Boer.’ The Boer being the white Dutch population.”

“If this were happening in any other nation on Earth, or in fact towards any other racial group… imagine if someone in the Republican Party was singing, ‘Shoot, kill the Asian,’ or ‘Shoot, kill the black,’ that would be ‘all over world news,'” expressed Southern. “It would be the biggest issue in the mainstream media, but because it is the Boer people, and because it is South Africa, the rainbow nation that is held up so highly as a socialist utopia by the left, we ignore this crisis.”

After noting that even the majority political party in South Africa is now enacting anti-white laws, such as land confiscation, she concluded, “If it continues, I fear there is going to be the beginning stages of what many would call genocide.”

Breitbart News Sunday airs on Sirius XM Patriot Channel 125, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern.

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VirtualShield, a company that sells virtual private network (VPN) software, is being promoted most prominently by YouTube creators who produce content that features conspiracy theories and far-right political commentary, in addition to programming hosted by at least one open white nationalist.

As a 2017 blog post pointed out, the ownership of VirtualShield is virtually unknown. The business was established using a method that allowed the founders to conceal their ownership and VirtualShield’s listed business location is the office of a company that sells businesses a virtual office address for $45.

VirtualShield runs an ambassador program in which websites and creators can make referral bonuses for directing their fans to VirtualShield products.

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However, the use of conspiracy theory rhetoric in its own in-house advertising suggests that VirtualShield may be making a direct effort to target right-wing audiences whose members are convinced that they are being surveilled because of their political beliefs.

One advertisement, featured on VirtualShield’s website, warns viewers about “the men in black suits”who are said to use the internet to orchestrate the spread of political propaganda and the “controlling of your mind”—rhetoric similar to that spread by Alex Jones and his Infowars media operation. To help fuel their paranoid narrative, they rely on legitimate concerns about data collection by big tech platforms, and the possibility of that data being hacked. But then they add an even more ominous, if mysterious, note.

“I guarantee you have a 100 percent chance that someone, a government agency, internet service provider, or an online hacker, is not only watching what you watch—they’re recording what you watch and they’re selling that information to people who pummel you with target-specific ads. And that’s not the half of it,” a narrator reads during one ad posted on VirtualShield’s YouTube channel.

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Some of the YouTube creators advertising VirtualShield and producing far-right content and right-wing conspiracy theory content include:

Conspiracy Theorists

Jordan Sather, a conspiracy theorist YouTuber who has dedicated his channel in recent months to the byzantine “QAnon” conspiracy theory and on Comedy Central’s “The Jim Jefferies Show” last year to vouch for the QAnon conspiracy theory;
Paul Begley, a right-wing pastor who declared his perceived foes to be part of a demonic Illuminati secret society,warned that the “deep state” seeks to put Christians in internment camps, and claimed that Melania Trump ordered the White House undergo an exorcism;
Lisa Haven, a conspiracy theorist who gives her viewers warnings about government mind-control programs and plots to exterminate human life, in addition to theories about the “deep state”;
Rex Bear’s Leak Project, which shares, among other things, esoteric theories about chemtrails, the Illuminati, sasquatch sightings, and aliens.

Far-Right Creators

Andy “Warski” Pires, a right-wing reactionary YouTube creator who piloted a “YouTube bloodsports”series last year that acted as a platform for far-right and white nationalist pundits;
James Allsup, a white nationalist YouTube pundit who flaunts his involvement in the white nationalist groupIdentity Evropaand held an elected position in his local GOP before he was ousted from that post;
Lauren Southern, a right-wing pundit and former Rebel Media star who has produced white nationalist agitprop and praised a whites-only town in South Africa for its low crime rate;
Brooks Heatherly, a.k.a. “NoBullshit,” a YouTube creator who upholds “race realism,” defended the alt-right Unite the Right rally against criticism, and has expressed anti-Semitic sentiments on numerous occasions.

We attempted to reach VirtualShield for this article but did not receive a response. A customer service representative directed us to the company’s support email address. We emailed the support form, received confirmation that our message had been received, and received no further contact.

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European alt-right group wants to take to the sea to stop rescuers from saving migrants

Members of “Generation Identity” plan Greenpeace-style guerrilla activism against migration. They want to use their own boat to intercept NGO humanitarian ships.

By Sarah Wildman Updated Jul 17, 2017, 11:34am EDT

Protesters from far-right movement Generation Identitaire take part in a demonstration against migrants on June 17, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. NurPhoto / Contributor

Desperate refugees and migrants making the treacherous and often deadly trip across the Mediterranean bound for Europe on flimsy rafts and boats this summer may face a new obstacle: the European alt-right.

A group of European 20-somethings who call themselves “Generation Identity” and work under the banner “Defend Europe” want to stop migrants from coming to Europe by intercepting the humanitarian ships working to rescue migrants in distress. Modeled after the actions leftist groups like Greenpeace have taken to obstruct whaling ships and nuclear submarines, this new form of anti-immigrant protest isn’t merely symbolic; it could have literal life-or-death consequences for people fleeing war zones, political chaos, and economic privation.

That’s because the “Defend Europe” Identitarians want to explicitly target humanitarian boats that race against time to save the lives of refugees.

This summer the United Nations has confirmed some 2,357 migrant deaths in the Mediterranean — a number that rises continually in warm months. In 2016, 5,000 died making the voyage. A recent Amnesty International report showed that 2017 is on track to be the worst year on record for migrant loss.

“We are blaming those NGOS for luring people into the sea,” Martin Sellner, a founder of the Austrian branch of the Identitarian movement, told me in a Skype interview. We spoke in early June when the group was first beginning to make international headlines. “We think those NGOs need to be stopped.” He and his colleagues believe the NGOs are, in essence, enabling the human traffickers by meeting the boats that capsize or break apart on the sea.

Sellner explained that the group wanted to hire a boat to trawl the coast of Italy, thwarting the NGO ships. This week they got a boat to begin their mission.

They promise to then pick up anyone in distress — a requirement of international maritime law — but say they will then bring them to the African coast rather than escorting them to Europe. It is “not likely at all that we could actually prevent someone from rescuing someone in distress from the sea,” he insisted to me.

Yet that’s exactly what those involved in rescuing migrants are concerned about.

“Saving people’s lives appears to be an afterthought to [their] primary goal of preventing people from entering Europe,” says Simon Murdoch, a researcher at the UK-based group HOPE Not Hate. “In fact, by delaying or impeding rescue missions, it seems far more likely that [they’re] putting more lives at risk on the high seas, particularly vulnerable women, children, and the elderly.”

In May, the group, whose members are known as “Identitarians,” held a trial sea protest, in a stunt used to gin up financial support for future forays. It worked. The group raised about $80,000 using crowdfunding, with the goal of hiring ships and crews to trawl the Mediterranean. But in mid-June, PayPal refunded the money after protests from the NGO community and others. The group created another video, and started fundraising again.

As of Sunday, they had raised more than $100,000. They now claim to have a ship ready to sail. As of their last Twitter post, the group was awaiting the ship in Sicily’s Catania harbor, ready to set out this week.

Identitarians use art and social media to protest Muslims and immigrants

Generation Identity is a pan-European, youth-based right-wing movement that has, until now, been largely known for massive anti-immigrant art exploits.

Caterina Froio, a political scientist at Oxford, says the Identitarians have long created media-friendly protests meant to shock — including a protest in 2010 where they attempted to serve wine and pork in a Parisian neighborhood filled with Muslim immigrants. “It was an indirect way for them to target the Muslim population of that neighborhood without violence being involved,” she explains.

More recently, they’ve pulled off stunts with high visual impact. In Austria they scaled the city’s famous Burgtheater and unfurled a banner that read, “Heuchler!” (“Hypocrite!” in German); disrupted a performance of a play about refugees, featuring refugee actors; and covered a statue of Maria Theresa, the former Austro-Hungarian empress, with a burqa.

Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria. The banner reads, “Hypocrite.” YouTube

In France, they took over a mosque in Poitiers, a city that was the setting of an eighth-century battle between Muslims and Christians, and demanded a referendum on immigration and the building of mosques.

Last summer, a German branch of the group protesting German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s asylum policies climbed the Brandenburg Gate and dropped a banner that read, "Secure Borders — Secure Future.”

The Brandenberg Gate, Berlin. YouTube

And on June 17 in Berlin, hundreds of Identitarians marched against immigration. Austria’s Martin Sellner spoke at the event, leading a chant calling for “Motherland, Freedom, and Tradition.” In the street, demonstrators spoke of “defending our future” and protesting mass immigration — particularly Muslim immigration. (Hundreds of counter-demonstrators came out as well.)

Nearly every time they stage one of these events, the Identitarians also create multi-camera mini documentaries about their efforts. They fill these YouTube-friendly short films with pounding music and a sense of danger — plus a healthy dose of self-satisfied triumph.

But street protest and YouTube cinematography apparently only go so far, and the group now wants to try to physically impede rescue missions. The move is sending alarm bells ringing in NGOs and authorities in an array of European countries, who worry that might put lives at risk.

The group’s first water protest was on May 12, in Sicily’s Catania harbor. That night the ship Aquarius, helmed by the pan-European humanitarian group SOS Méditerranée and with a medical team from Doctors Without Borders on board, was setting out to sea, looking for refugees who have cast off from Africa in boats scarcely worthy of bathtubs.

As they set sail, they were briefly waylaid by a handful of activists aboard a tiny skiff who hoisted a yellow flag emblazoned with the Identitarians’ mark — the Greek letter Lambda, a symbol used by the ancient Spartan warriors who battled Persians in 480 BC — and then threw flares off the ship into the air and sea. The anti-immigrant activists chanted, “No more illegal immigration,” before being briefly detained by the Italian Coast Guard.

“Every day, every hour, ships packed with illegal immigrants are flooding the European border, an invasion is taking place,” one activist said in a video describing their Mediterranean aspirations that included footage of the trial run. They headlined the short film “Defend Europe.” “We are losing our safety, our way of life, and we will become a minority in our country!” said another man, staring deeply into the camera.

The video included a bank account number, and a means of wiring the group cash. Though it was later taken down by YouTube for violating its terms of service, it has since been reposted by supporters.

Identitarians have a very specific idea of who is European. Hint: not Muslims.

“The Identitarians are not a 'movement,' they are an extreme, radical and racist minority," German Justice Minister Heiko Maas told the German newspaper Tagesspiegel in mid-June.

But the group’s activists are actually very careful about how they describe their motivations.

Their videos are slick, packed with clean-cut, white Europeans speaking about preserving their homeland. They very consciously eschew violence. They claim to be protecting women, and the values of Europe, from assault at the hands of immigrants.

“We are not racist,” Sellner tells me earnestly.

“We believe all cultures and all people are equal, have a right to preserve and maintain their cultural identity. And by securing our borders ... we want to preserve the real cultural diversity of the world. Because when Europe becomes Islamized, in fact it is a loss of diversity and a loss of culture.”

He continues, “So we are not racists, those people who deny us a right for an identity are in fact the real racists. ”

(When Sellner is not helping plan anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant protests, he is also crowdfunding for an app he calls “Patriot Peer,” which he hopes will become akin to Tinder for finding like-minded “patriots.” The app uses Pepe the Frog, the favorite meme of the American alt-right, as an avatar.)

Froio, the political scientist, notes that Identitarians focus on cultural differences rather than biological ones. “Their idea is that different cultures are entitled to exist, but everyone in a different country,” she said.

The group is very clear about skirting the European taboo associated with (not to mention, in Austria and Germany, illegality of) Nazism and 1930s-style fascism and as a result has been careful not to fall into the racist linguistic traps of the past. “The Identitarians stay clear of neo-Nazi language and symbols,” says Bernhard Weidinger, a political scientist at the Documentation Center for Austrian Resistance.

“This is the central theme: neo-racism and cultural racism. They talk less about blood,” a theme of the 1930s, and more about “the culture of people,” says Judith Götz, a researcher with the blog Stoppt Die Rechten (“Stop the Right”).

Indeed, the group has a vocabulary tailored to their beliefs. They don’t use words like “deportation” — instead, they talk of “remigration.” Sellner told me, “We need to start a remigration of illegals and to fight radical Islam in Europe.”

He points to the Cologne sexual assaults, in which some 1,500 men — a group that included recent migrants and asylum applicants — sexually assaulted hundreds of women on New Year’s Eve 2016 in this West German city. Sellner believes closed-door migrant policies would have prevented the events of that night.

He opines that there have been “almost daily rapes and almost weekly terrorist strikes in Europe — those were the consequences of failed immigration and integration policy. They were the consequences of the policies of multiculturalism.”

But while the story of Cologne caused tremendous soul searching in Germany, less attention has been paid to attacks on refugees and asylum seekers in Germany.

The Funke Media Group in Germany reported earlier this year there were nearly 3,600 attacks on refugees in Germany alone in 2016, almost 10 per day, including against children. And on June 29, the New York Times reported on a “surge” in right-wing extremism and violence in Germany since the migrant crisis began.

But those kinds of numbers and stories don’t fit Sellner’s narrative. “The Muslim immigrants of today, who will not integrate or assimilate into society, could and will be the terrorists of tomorrow,” Sellner told me. “That's why we have to stop non-European Islamic immigration.”

Activists of the French far-right movement Generation Identitaire hold a banner as they demonstrate against migrants in the Italian city of Ventimiglia, on the French-Italian border, on June 14, 2015. JEAN CHRISTOPHE MAGNENET/AFP/Getty Images)

Social media plays a crucial role in the Identitarian movement. On board the night of their trial run was Lauren Southern, an alt-right Canadian blogger. The stunt was filmed from several angles and was up on YouTube immediately. Even the mainstream media is seen as an equal-opportunity means of getting out their message. It makes writing about them all the more complicated.

Sellner now makes half of his video posts in English. He’s been interviewed by the BBC’s Newsnight, CNN, and Australia’s SBC. Southern herself has done a number of YouTube videos traveling to meet the Identitarians across Europe.

All this social media has an impact; its reach magnifies what is actually a very small group. Their numbers are not enormous — between 400 and 500 per country, with branches in Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, and beyond. Some of the countries — Austria and France, for example — have far more visible movements than the others.

Weidinger at the Documentation Center for Austrian Resistance explains that most, if not all, of the group’s protests take place in such a way as to be easily, and immediately, disseminated online.

“I think the media has blown this phenomenon out of proportion,” he cautions.

That said, he says, “Something that is new is that they have a media policy which is, ‘We will talk to anyone, at any time. And we will show our faces and give them our names.’”

“They are basically far-right hipsters”

The group prides itself on its youth.

“No one is over 30,” Sellner tells me. They speak of their Facebook likes — in the tens of thousands — as though that calculates reach and impact, though it is not clear it does.

Each summer for the past six years or so, the group has hosted a training camp for like-minded Europeans in France.

Identitarian summer camp. YouTube

In promotional videos, you see a few hundred fit men and women jogging through the forest and working on their pushups. They wear T-shirts with slogans like “Defend Europe.”

There are other such bucolic messages of European identity and camaraderie, and back-to-the-land bonhomie, coming out of the German Identitarian movement as well. Videos from the German wing of the movement show rolling fields and apple-cheeked adherents to the cause.

“We stand against the Great Replacement,” intones the voiceover in one German video. The phrase is a reference to the work of French philosopher Renaud Camus, who writes warning essays about how Europeans and European culture will be “replaced” by migrants (and Islam, more specifically).

A still from a German Identitarian YouTube video. YouTube

“They are basically far-right hipsters,” says Weidinger.

The French arm of the group created a video a few years ago that explained what they see as a generational shift against multiculturalism, and called it “a declaration of war.”

“We are the generation of ethnic fracture, total failure of coexistence, and forced mixing of races,” says one serious-looking man into the camera, all grainy and textured in black and white, as orchestral strings swell behind him. Yet another 20-something guy says, “We reject your history books to regather our memories.”

Martin Sellner, too, feels Europeans have been made to feel guilty for too long for their recent history. “In Austria and in other Western countries we have been bad at dealing with their own past,” he says. “It turns into ideology of your own guilt. ... In every Western European country, what we get in school, we see movies of our own past only consists of feeling guilty. And I think that has been the roots and sources of the political disaster we face today.”

He adds, “We should be able to be proud of our heritage again.”

“What is alarming is the rhetoric they have of ‘last chance,’ as in, ‘We are the last generation that can prevent Europe from irreversible deterioration,’” says Weidinger, the Austrian researcher of the far right.

He also notes that many of the Identitarian sentiments and ideas on refugees and migrants have filtered into mainstream political culture. The current Austrian foreign minister, Sebastian Kurz, for example, just this year floated the idea of enclaves for refugees to be created outside of Europe.

“Our approach must be to protect the external borders and to tell whoever tries to come to Europe illegally, ‘You won’t get through,’” Kurz said in an interview with Politico in December. And in a statement after a trip to Libya, he curtly stated, “A rescue in the Mediterranean should not be linked to a ticket to Central Europe.”

In early July, Italy tried to close off ports to those NGO ships that monitor the Libyan coast for rescues. 11,000 refugees had arrived in the space of days, and Italy said the numbers were too high. They later backed off.

But sentiments like these are ones with which the Identitarians would likely heartily agree.

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Lauren Cherie Southern (born 16 June^[3] 1995) is a Canadian far-right political activist,^[a] internet personality, writer and documentary film director. She has been described as alt-right,^[b] though she has denied this. In 2015, Southern ran as a Libertarian Party candidate in the Canadian federal election. She worked for The Rebel Media until March 2017. In addition, she has written for Spiked,^[4] the International Business Times, and The Libertarian Republic.^[5] Southern continues to work independently and uploads videos on YouTube.

In 2017, Southern supported the white identitarian group Defend Europe opposing the action of non-governmental organizations involved in search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea. She was detained by the Italian Coast Guard for blocking a ship embarking on a search-and-rescue mission.^[6] In March 2018, she was questioned under the UK Terrorism Act^[7] and denied entry to Britain, because of her intentions during her March visit.^[8] She said she was "permanently banned" from the UK,^[9] though it was later confirmed she was refused entry for specific purposes only, not banned.^[10]

In July 2018, she went on a speaking tour of Australia and jokingly called for the country to be bombed, quoting the Bible.^[11] In August 2018, her attempted speaking tour of New Zealand was unsuccessful. Auckland Council cancelled Southern's booking and blocked her from using its venues to "stir up ethnic or religious tensions".^[12]

Education and personal life

Southern was born in Surrey, British Columbia.^[13] She studied political science at the University of the Fraser Valley but completed only two years and did not receive a degree.^[14][15][16] Regarding her reason for dropping out, Southern stated that it was a waste of money to pay for knowledge that she could get on her own.^[14]

Political career

In 2015, Southern was a candidate in the 2015 Canadian federal election representing the Libertarian Party in the district of Langley—Aldergrove.^[15] She was briefly removed by the party as a candidate, but was eventually reinstated with support from Breitbart News and The Rebel Media.^[17] The election was eventually won by Conservative candidate Mark Warawa. Southern finished last, having received 535 votes, or 0.9% of the total.^[18]

Activism

In June 2015 while reporting on the Vancouver SlutWalk for Rebel Media, Southern's cameraman was shoved and Southern's protest sign stating "There Is No Rape Culture In The West" was torn up.^[19][20]

In March 2016, a protester in Vancouver poured a container of urine over Southern's head while she was engaging with LGBTQ protesters at a rally in Vancouver, arguing for two human genders.^[21][22][23]

Southern was mistakenly suspended from Facebook, having criticized the site for banning several conservative commentators. She later received an email apology from Facebook saying the suspension was an "error".^[24][25]

In October 2016, Southern had her gender legally changed to male as part of a video produced for Rebel Media to show the ease of Ontario's new gender ID laws.^[26][27]

In 2016, Southern authored and self-published Barbarians: How Baby Boomers, Immigrants, and Islam Screwed My Generation.^[28][29]

In January 2017, Southern posted incorrect rumours from 4chan that the Quebec City mosque shooting had been carried out by Syrian refugees; she later deleted those tweets.^[30] In March 2017, Southern announced she would be leaving Rebel Media to become an independent journalist.^[31] In the same month, she gained access to White House press briefings.^[32][33]

In April 2017, Southern was one of several scheduled speakers at a Patriots' Day rally in Berkeley, California.^[34] The rally led to a riot between pro-Trump demonstrators and anti-Trump counter-protesters.^[35]

Support for the targetting of NGO ships

In May 2017, Southern took part in an attempt organized by the identitarian group Génération identitare to block the passage of an NGO ship, the *Aquarius* (co-owned by SOS Mediterranée and by Doctors without Borders), which was leaving Sicily to start a search-and-rescue mission for ship-wrecked migrants off the shores of Northern Africa. Claiming that the goal of the activists "was to stop an empty boat from going down to Libya and filling up with illegal migrants", Southern was briefly detained by the Italian Coast Guard. NGO ships often rescue migrants and refugees, who disembark from Libyan shores on unsafe makeshift rafts, and bring them to Sicily.^[36][37] With regard to her actions, Southern stated that "if the politicians won't stop the boats, we'll stop the boats."^[6]

Southern supported similar actions by identitarian group Defend Europe, which chartered a vessel in order to track and stop what it called collusion between NGOs and human traffickers. The group has been accused^[by ^whom?] of intending to obstruct the rescue of migrants and refugees in distress at sea. In July 2017, Southern revealed that Patreon had deleted her account out of concerns about her "raising funds in order to take part in activities that are likely to cause loss of life".^[38] Southern denied these allegations, stating that Defend Europe's actions were likely to save lives and that none of her funding went towards the group.^[39]

United Kingdom-related events

In February 2018, Southern, along with Brittany Pettibone and Caolan Robertson, distributed flyers in the English town of Luton describing Allah as "gay".^[7]

In March 2018, Southern, Pettibone, and Pettibone's boyfriend, Martin Sellner, were all denied entry to the United Kingdom.^[40] Southern was also questioned under the Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.^[7] Her denial of entry was due to her intentions during her March visit^[8] and on the same grounds as Pettibone and Sellner.^[41]

She said she was "permanently banned" from the UK.^[9][42] However, it was later confirmed she was instead refused entry for specific purposes only, and reports of her being banned were false.^[10]

2018 Australian tour

Shortly before a planned speaking tour of Australia in July 2018, Australia's Department of Home Affairs denied Lauren Southern an Electronic Travel Authority visa, saying it was "not a working visa".^[43] She intended to charge $79 for a basic ticket and up to $749 for an "intimate dinner".^[44] The Australian government allowed her to enter the country once she had the correct visa.^[45] Arriving at Brisbane airport, she was wearing an "It's OK to be white" shirt.^[46][47]

When she asked people on the street in Melbourne "Should we kill Lauren Southern?", many had never heard of her.^[48] A speaking event in Melbourne was opposed by more than 100 protestors.^[49]

There were no protestors at her event in Sydney, where ticket holders were notified of the venue by receiving a text on the day.^[50] The Sydney event included a $200 meet-and-greet, a $500 VIP meet-and-greet and a $750 dinner.^[51]

In Brisbane, Lauren Southern supported bombing the Australian city of Melbourne, quoting the Bible, as a joke.^[11] She was opposed by around 60 protesters.^[52]

2018 New Zealand tour

In August 2018, Southern's attempted speaking tour of New Zealand was unsuccessful. Auckland Council cancelled her booking and blocked her from using its venues to "stir up ethnic or religious tensions".^[12] For agreeing with the cancellation, an MP received violent threats.^[53]

The subsequent booking of a private venue was revoked by its owners, one of whom said "The minute I heard who it was I cancelled".^[54] In retaliation, their venue was vandalised.^[55]

The failure to find a venue was celebrated by around 1,000 protestors, who said the planned event had nothing to do with freedom of speech. The Prime Minister said Southern's views "are not those that are shared by this country".^[56]

Auckland Council venue cancellation

Southern and Canadian podcaster and YouTuber Stefan Molyneux were scheduled to speak in Auckland on 3 August 2018, at an Auckland Council-owned theatre. However, Auckland Live, the Council agency responsible for the theatre, cancelled the venue booking on the grounds of concerns around "the health and safety of the presenters, staff and patrons". The Mayor of Auckland Phil Goff then tweeted that Council venues should not be used to "stir up ethnic or religious tensions".^[57] He later said "we've got no obligation at all" to provide a venue for "hate speech".^[53] In response, Southern denied assertions that her views were "hate speech" and warned about the danger of "progressivism".^[12][58]

New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters and National Party leader Simon Bridges said they would have supported her right to speak, while Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson said she supported the ban.^[59][60] For saying so, Davidson's family was sent degrading messages of a sexual nature and death threats by supporters of Lauren Southern.^[53] Human rights lawyer Craig Tuck criticized Mayor Goff's decision as a violation of free speech, while the cancellation of Southern and Molyneux's tour was welcomed by the Auckland Peace Action activist group and the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ).^[12] By contrast, The Spinoff contributor Ali Shakir said that while he disagreed with many of Southern's views, he thought she and Molyneux should be welcomed to New Zealand and said that barring them damaged the country's commitment to freedom of expression and raised "serious concerns about the process." Shakir also questioned FIANZ's claim to speak for all Muslims.^[61] A group called the Free Speech Coalition advocated for a judicial review of the cancellation and raised NZ$50,000 in less than 24 hours.^[62] The group's supporters included former Labour Party cabinet minister Michael Bassett, former National and ACT parties leader Don Brash, Property Institute chief executive Ashley Church, Auckland University of Technology historian Paul Moon, broadcaster Lindsay Perrigo, political commentator Chris Trotter, and New Zealand Taxpayers' Union director Jordan Williams.^[63]

Visa granted

On 20 July, Immigration New Zealand granted visas for Southern and Molyneux to visit New Zealand. While describing their views as "repugnant" and "counter to the kind and tolerant values of the vast majority of New Zealanders", Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway cleared their entry on the grounds that the duo had met immigration character requirements including not having prior criminal convictions. He added that they were never banned from Australia or the United Kingdom as previously reported.^[64] Southern welcomed the news and tweeted that she hoped that she and Molyneux could be "unbarred" from their venue as well.^[65][66]

Alistair McCylmont, a leading immigration lawyer, later said there were "plenty" of grounds to stop the two coming into the country. He cited the visa cancellation of a rapper in 2014 using a law usually reserved for white supremacists, and suggested the grounds of a risk to order or the public interest. "Considering the amount of information out there in the public forum about the views held by the different people and what they've been talking, they would be plenty of grounds that could have been applied to declining visas." However, the minister took the view that denying entry would not be justified.^[67]

Seeking a private venue

On 25 July, Southern and Molyneux cancelled their trip to New Zealand. The Free Speech Coalition said time had run out to find alternative arrangements for the pair, following the Auckland Council ban.^[68] On 26 July, Southern and Molyneux's promoter David Pellowe said that the duo would be speaking in Auckland after claiming that a new speaking venue had been found.^[69][70]

On 2 August, Southern and Molyneux arrived in Auckland for their speaking event on the following day.^[71] An email to attendees said the pair look forward to the day when "ideas right of Stalin are permitted equal rights to peaceful assembly".^[72][73] The speaking tour was booked at Auckland's Powerstation theatre but was cancelled shortly after the venue was revealed on social media. Owner Peter Campbell rescinded the booking, citing disruption to neighbours.^[74] Co-owner Gabrielle Mullins cited "humanitarian issues",^[72] adding "The minute I heard who it was I cancelled",^[54] "It goes against quite a lot of things that we say"^[73] and "They can say whatever they want but personally I don't want it in my venue".^[72] For refusing to host the speakers, their building was vandalised with graffiti.^[55]

Response to private cancellation

Tāmaki Anti Fascist Action spokesperson Sina Brown-Davis said her group feared "dehumanising depictions of indigenous people" in New Zealand.^[75] Molyneux had called Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people "the lowest rung of civilisation".^[76] Brown-Davis added "They've been quite clever framing this as a free speech issue, which they use as a smokescreen to introduce their politics of hate and division."^[72] In response to the cancellation, Southern blamed a "violent and scary minority willing to make threats and commit violence" for shutting down free speech.^[77][78] Roughly 1000 protestors gathered in Auckland's Aotea Square that night, celebrating the cancellation of the event, which they said had nothing to do with freedom of speech.^[56]

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said New Zealand is "hostile" to the views of the speakers and "I think you'll see from the reaction they've had from New Zealanders that their views are not those that are shared by this country, and I'm quite proud of that".^[56] Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson added "Aotearoa does not stand for your messages of racism, hatred and especially white supremacy".^[72] Justice Minister Andrew Littlesaid the speakers "clearly have misled people" in trying to secure the venue.^[79] TV personality Te Hamua Nikora said the pair were against multiculturalism, unlike New Zealand.^[78] The minimum ticket price for the cancelled Auckland event was $99.^[74]

Views

Southern has been widely described as alt-right,^[b] far right^[a] and right-wing.^[c] She rejects the label "alt-right". The Southern Poverty Law Center has described Southern's videos as anti-feminist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, and borderline white nationalist.^[80] She is anti-multiculturalism and has called the Black Lives Matter movement a "terrorist organisation".^[81]

Gender

Southern said transgender people have a "genuine delusion" adding "It’s body dysmorphia and that is a mental illness".^[82] She criticised legal recognition for changing one's gender, because people doing so might be "dishonest".^[81]

Southern has spoken in opposition to feminism^[83] and has said that women are "not psychologically developed to hold leadership positions",^[84] and "not going to be as great being CEOs".^[82] In 2015 she attended SlutWalk and held a sign that read, "There is no rape culture in the West."^[85] She also said that it was "insane" to focus on the issue.^[86]

Multiculturalism

Southern is anti-multiculturalism.^[87] She has asked whether a multicultural society would require "witch doctors" at medical conferences,^[79] and has claimed that "multiculturalism will inevitably fail unless 50 per cent of the population believes in Western culture".^[88] New Matilda reported that the core message of her 2018 speaking tour of Australia was that "multiculturalism doesn't work".^[89] On the tour, she caused controversy for publicly criticizing an "Asian only" room-share advert that she had photographed and published as evidence of the "extremely tribalistic" nature of immigrants;^[90] attempting to highlight the supposed failure of multiculturalism, in that it produced a form of "segregation".^[91]

Race

Southern defended the American alt-right leader Richard Spencer, who said "Hail Trump" in a speech at a white nationalist gathering, and called for a "peaceful" ethnic cleansing of America. Southern said he "is not a white supremacist, he is a white nationalist. He believes in a white ethnostate."^[92][93][94]

"White genocide" conspiracy theory

Southern has promoted the white genocide conspiracy theory.^{[95][96][97][98]} She has advocated for European countries to refuse refugees from Africa and Asia, saying that immigration would lead to white genocide,^[97]and has been labelled in media as a "booster" for the conspiracy at large.^[99] In 2018, Southern produced a documentary called Farmlands about the conspiracy theory in relation to post-Apartheid farm violence in South Africa.^[100][84] Farmlands includes claims of an impending race war in South Africa, a common talking point for white nationalists.^[101]

Notes

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Gordon, Graeme (27 July 2017). "Why Lauren Southern Got Banned From Patreon". Canadaland. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
Wilson, Jason (24 August 2018). "White farmers: how a far-right idea was planted in Donald Trump's mind". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
Baidawi, Adam (3 April 2018). "South Africa Says Australia Retracted Claim of 'Persecuted' White Farmers". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 April 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
"Canadian far-right activist Lauren Southern barred from Britain for anti-Muslim views". National Post. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
Oppenheim, Maya (13 March 2018). "Far-right Canadian activist detained in Calais and banned from entering UK". The Independent. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
Maxwell, Tani. ":{':(style="padding-left:0.2em"):}:There's no one for right-wingers to pick a fight with': The far right is struggling to sustain interest in its social media platforms". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 31 January 2018. Retrieved 16 April2018.

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Wildman, Sarah. "A European alt-right group wants to take to the sea to stop rescuers from saving migrants". Vox. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
Khandakar, Tamara. "Lauren Southern is the alt-right's not-so-secret weapon". Archived from the original on 16 July 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
Neiwert, David. "The Far Right Descends on Berkeley for 'Free Speech' and Planned Violence". Hatewatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
"Alt-right activist Lauren Southern's visa rejected on eve of Australian tour". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). 9 July 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
Warren, James (7 December 2017). "How women of the alt-right are attacked viciously — by the men of the alt-right". Poynter. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
Mortimer, Caroline (20 July 2017). "Far-right activists stopped as they try to block refugee rescue in the Mediterranean". The Independent. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
Porter, Tom (12 March 2018). "A U.S. alt-right media personality was among a group of activists denied entry to the U.K." Newsweek. Retrieved 9 May 2018.

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Shaw, Adam (12 March 2018). "Right-wing journalist Lauren Southern denied entry to UK, purportedly over criticism of Islam". Fox News. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
Hosenball, Mark (12 March 2018). "British authorities ban three foreign right-wing activists". Reuters. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
Farrell, Jeff (14 August 2017). "Anti-immigrant ship trying to block refugees from crossing Mediterranean has funding cancelled". The Independent. Retrieved 9 May 2018.

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