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In spite of this, Anglin still appears to have supporters. “They say he Nazi-fied the movement,” Mayo explained. But the rally did no such thing, opening a fissure in the so-called alt-right that still hasn’t closed, said Marilyn Mayo, a senior research fellow for the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.Īccording to Mayo, many alt-right figures are resentful of Anglin for, among other things, having injected an overt and vicious kind of anti-Semitism into the far-right playbook, making the alt-right easier to caricature and turning away “disaffected whites” who might be put off by such extremism.

In 2017, several web servers stopped hosting Anglin’s content after he helped organize the violent white nationalist riot in Charlottesville known as the Unite the Right rally. In yet another lawsuit, Taylor Dumpson, the first black woman elected student government president at American University, is seeking $1.5 million in damages from Anglin for online harassment. In mid-June, an Ohio judge ordered that Anglin would have to pay $4.1 million in a defamation suit filed by the Muslim comedian Dean Obeidallah, whom Anglin had falsely accused of orchestrating a terrorist attack at a concert in England.Ī Montana resident named Tanya Gersh has, with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center, also filed suit against Anglin for having orchestrated an anti-Semitic “troll storm” that targeted her and her family.

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He has been in hiding as he seeks to evade a series of major lawsuits that threaten to bankrupt his entire operation. But Anglin has more recently struggled to keep his site afloat. Until recently, The Daily Stormer was one of the most popular venues for anti-Semitic hate on the internet. More than 1,000 anonymous Twitter accounts are believed to be run by white supremacists who have snuck back onto the platform. He isn’t the only white nationalist lurking anonymously on the site. It was unclear if the message was actually sent by Anglin, and the person did not respond to several follow-up emails.Īnglin’s Daily Stormer posts, which are laced with racist, misogynist and anti-Semitic invective, are often linked to on the social media platform. In a statement, a HuffPost spokesperson said, “We are aware of one instance that Anglin did reach out,” adding, “We stand by our reporting and the accuracy of this piece.” The person also claimed to have emailed HuffPost twice asking for a retraction of its story. The Forward emailed a Yandex account, listed on The Daily Stormer’s website, inquiring about the Ludovici account and received a response from a person claiming to be Anglin and denying that the account was his.

The Daily Stormer, Rosenthal said, is “uncompromisingly facsist.”Ī Twitter spokesperson would not confirm or deny that Anglin, whose Twitter identification number was first reported by HuffPost, is behind the account. He is a figure Anglin would likely admire, according to Lawrence Rosenthal, chairman of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies. Presumably, the account is named after the obscure British fascist Anthony Ludovici, who died in 1971. It has been registered since December 2018. The account, whose handle has not been publicly identified until now, is goes by the name “Ludovici” and often links to Daily Stormer content. The reclusive neo-Nazi blogger Andrew Anglin was banned from Twitter in 2015, but that hasn’t kept him off the site.Īnglin is still operating anonymously on the social media platform through at least one fake account he uses to promote content from The Daily Stormer, the anti-Semitic hate site he founded in 2013, according to a source with direct knowledge of Anglin’s presence on Twitter who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the matter.