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May 17, 2017 The Skanner Page 9 News El Daily Stormer: Neo-Nazi Website is Now in Spanish, Too Writer for the English-language site says forums already had participants in Spanish-speaking countries By Michael Kunzelman Associated Press H ow does a leading neo-Nazi website that has railed against Hispanic immigrants expand its audience beyond a loyal base of U.S. White su- premacists? By publish- ing a Spanish-language edition, of course. The Daily Stormer — infamous for orchestrat- ing internet harassment campaigns by its “Troll Army” of readers — re- cently launched El Daily Stormer as a “news por- tal” tailoring its racist, anti-Semitic content for readers in Spain and Lat- in America. Andrew Auernheimer, a notorious computer hacker and internet troll who writes for the En- glish-language site, says the Spanish edition fits their mission to spread Hitlerism across the world. “We want our message to reach millions more people,” he said in a tele- phone interview. Hate sites have realized that the U.S. has no mo- nopoly on white nation- alists and other far-right extremists, says Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence “ Gersh and other Jewish residents of Whitefish, Montana, of engaging in an “extortion racket” against the mother of white nationalist Rich- The White supremacist movement has really viewed itself as past borders Project. Others, such as Stormfront, already created multilingual fo- rums. “The White suprema- cist movement has real- ly viewed itself as past borders, reaching out to White people in other countries,” Beirich said. The law center rep- resents a Montana real estate agent who sued The Daily Stormer’s founder, Andrew An- glin, last month for un- leashing an anti-Semitic “campaign of terror” against her family. Anonymous trolls bom- barded Tanya Gersh’s family with hateful and threatening messages after Anglin published the family’s personal information in a Decem- ber post that accused ard Spencer. Anglin’s site takes its name from Der Stürmer, a newspaper that pub- lished Nazi propagan- da. It includes sections called “Jewish Problem” and “Race War.” El Daily Stormer titles its anti-Semitic section “Judiadas,” an offensive term with roots in medi- eval Spain, where it was invoked to justify geno- cidal attacks on Jews. The Spanish site also includes appeals for do- nations and unpaid arti- cles, and a forum where people complain about Chile and Argentina fill- ing up with “negros,” re- ferring to people from Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay. Auernheimer, known online as “weev,” said a team of volunteers is writing original content for the Spanish-language site. The site’s appeal for unpaid collaborators says being a dissident “has never been a lucra- tive activity,” and that it is looking for writers “willing to risk every- thing for the survival of our race.” “We have a big Span- ish-speaking popula- tion on our forums, so it was an easy direction to branch out into,” he said. About 40 percent of The Daily Stormer’s 3.2 million unique monthly visitors are in the U.S.; the Spanish edition has added fewer than 10,000 since its recent launch, Auernheimer said. Surpassing Storm- front as the top U.S. hate site hasn’t been a finan- cial boon for The Daily Stormer, which calls itself “100 percent read- er-supported.” Anglin complained in January that a Ukrainian ad- vertising company had banned them, leaving an Australian electrician as the site’s only advertiser.
