Fraser Crichton
@frasercrichton.com
Researcher focusing on the Far Right with an interest in open source investigation, 3D visualisation https://lake-alice.space and technology. https://frasercrichton.com
Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.
Christopher Wiggins@cwnewser.bsky.social · 7mo agoNEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
Auckland Grammar School, mentioned in this piece, has a history of online trolling using Nazi content: www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2...
What is Agartha? Esoteric Nazism Spreading on Meta Platforms, Followers Harassing Teachers
Agartha’s viral rise on Instagram and TikTok is pushing Nazi mythology into the mainstream, with teens using the meme to racially and religiously target teachers. As AI-generated Agartha content sprea...
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This is how federal agencies have used minor traffic stops, especially targeting moped delivery drivers, to funnel people into immigration detention and deportation. More than 40 videos analyzed with our partners @bellingcat.com shed light on the tactics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1iP...
Trump's DC Takeover Has Turned Traffic Stops Into a Deportation Pipeline
YouTube video by Evident Media
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I worked with Bellingcat's Global Authentication Project on this. Don't be in any doubt - this will be the Far Right's template for what's coming to the UK and Europe.
Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 11mo agoIn less than a month of federal control of DC, we, with @evidentmedia.org, have verified 42 federal agent encounters, half of which involve DC police; with traffic stops that quickly turn into detentions, and workers pulled off mopeds mid-shift. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
"This will kill people" The leader of the far-right Great British National Protest has reported fellow anti-migrant campaigners to the police, accusing them of planning "domestic terrorism". Read about it here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/09/far-...
Far-right leader says fellow anti-migrant campaigners are planning 'domestic terrorism' | Searchlight
James Hodges and Clare Walsh - accused of planning 'domestic terrorism' The leader of the far-right Great British National Protest has reported tw ...
searchlightmagazine.com
Who are the Basketweavers? Behind the purposefully inconspicuous name is a shadowy far right network with plans to form a new elite, and connections to a swathe of far-right extremists. hopenothate.org.uk/the-basketwe...
The Basketweavers: Inside the biggest far-right group you've never heard of
With over a thousand members across the UK, US, and beyond, the Basketweavers presents themselves as a harmless social club, but behind closed doors, they push antisemitic conspiracies, violent fantas...
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🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · last yr.I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
Digital Rights are rights for all.
Call to Action: Sign Our Open Letter to Meta’s Oversight Board
Social media is essential for sex workers’ safety, livelihoods, and community organising. When sex workers are silenced online, the impacts are real and far-reaching, cutting people off from income, s...
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From Lincolnshire to Leicestershire, Doncaster to Durham, we’ve uncovered Reform UK candidates posting hate, spreading racist lies, and praising extremists. Reform claim to have cleaned up, but the evidence says otherwise. ❌ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK criticised for candidates' offensive posts
Nigel Farage says his party has the best vetting - but campaigners find candidates who appear to have slipped through the net.
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Both Gab and Bitchute refusing to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act and so choosing to restrict their services by blocking UK IP addresses. Good riddance.
What characterize the development of right-wing terrorism and violence (RTV) in Western Europe since 2010? Read this new blog post by @jacravn.bsky.social, Charlotte Tandberg & @arjupskas.bsky.social. Scholars and students can download the RTV dataset from our website. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence in Western Europe: Updated Dataset and Key Findings - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism
The Right-wing Terrorism and Violence (RTV) dataset tracks severe right-wing attacks in Western Europe since 1990. The latest report shows a significant decrease in such violence since 2010, though it...
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ALL caregivers and parents need to be aware of COM, 764, and related groups if their children are online to help keep them safe. Two people in New Zealand have been charged in connection with their links to several sub-groups of “The Com”. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/extremist...
Watch: The rise of online cults targeting NZ kids
Investigations under way as NZ police identify victims linked to subgroups of 'The Com'.
nzherald.co.nz
Prosecutor Daniel Porceddu said the teenager and his friend, who was aged 14 at the time of the killing, spent months forming a plan that involved blowing up a bridge, attacking police and building a pro-Christian, anti-communist army to take over the country. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Mother stabbed to death after teens hatched national takeover plan, court told
Armed with knives and a cricket bat, two "delusional" teenagers with plans to take over Australia killed a defenceless mother in a frenzied rage, a Victorian court has been told.
abc.net.au
The reality of Homeland's political aspirations - more beer.
British neo-Nazis from the Homeland Party have been given a guided tour of the German Bundestag at the invitation of Steffen Kotré, a member of Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which surged to second place in national elections held last month.
This real-world hate has been brewing for a long time on NZ social media. Brian Tamaki represents a group of radicalised bigots. Even NZ Corrections rejected the Man Up programme in prisons.
Man Up protesters disrupt Wellington Pride parade
Dozens of protesters wearing Man Up t-shirts have met the start of the Wellington Pride parade, performing a haka.
rnz.co.nz
🧵 You've heard of Fake News, but have you heard of Fake Hooves? Disordered discourse isn't just about a system that is about political impact, but also how the system itself is gamed for profit. First, let me introduce you to The Hoof GP:
🚨 State of HATE 2025 is out today. The most in-depth report on the far right in Britain. What’s happening, what’s next, and how we fight back. 🔗 hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...