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<div>=</div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(76, 81, 87);">n Austrian Identitarian leader with a presence on YouTube <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=925e0f4f734fe6a07d60a449b4d41436a73b89d5913d2bc46e7496f81d07a04bfcdb47a7b8711f0cd68a5a5f647d9e9702b1ffc42a0666af" title="reportedly received" style="color: rgb(25, 118, 210);">reportedly received</a> a payment from the man charged over the Christchurch attacks. According to Reuters, Martin Sellner received roughly $1,690 last year from a man with the same name as the suspect, which prompted Austrian law enforcement to raid Sellner’s house on March 25.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(76, 81, 87);">Sellner subsequently acknowledged that he had pointed the New Zealand shooter to his English-language YouTube videos after receiving praise for his work. Sellner addressed the Christchurch shooter donation in a YouTube video, and in doing so, collected donations via the "super chats" feature.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(76, 81, 87);">Sellner’s group is a white supremacist organization focused on sanitizing its image to maintain mainstream appeal. Aided by glossy media coverage and YouTube influencers, Sellner has been able to get donations by spreading anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim messaging to a global far-right audience.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(76, 81, 87);">The Daily Beast's Kelly Weill <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=925e0f4f734fe6a0faa070591cb7b4ae9b214826777043f98e9ab64cea41a44f4cbb6a3773a184fa3f28f5496e0bc4c786b935b59c004a9f" title="described" style="color: rgb(25, 118, 210);">described</a> Sellner's "fascist" organization thusly:<i>"This fascist movement falsely characterizes itself as under attack by immigrants, people of color, Muslims, and Jews. Sellner and his movement spread conspiracy theories about these racial and religious groups “replacing” white people. Generation Identity hosts a web page explaining the conspiracy theory. That page’s title was the also title of the manifesto Tarrant released before opening fire on Muslims, killing children as young as three."</i></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(76, 81, 87);">In 2018, Tucker Carlson <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=925e0f4f734fe6a0ac8fb15f348c13257eaac3ac5d9205d1da3c63586c36d7ebd10603bcf1af3681e314e3de93864c2a3e596c4980fe3bfc" title="passionately defended" style="color: rgb(25, 118, 210);">passionately defended</a> Sellner and his partner Brittany Pettibone when they were refused entry to the United Kingdom, claiming the U.K.’s actions were evidence that the country “hates itself, its heritage, [and] its own people.”</span></span></p></div><div>=</div>