The Daily Stormer

The Daily Stormer
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Type of site
Neo-Nazi, alt-right commentary, message board
Available inEnglish
EditorAndrew Anglin
URLhttps://dailystormer.in/ As of November 24, 2022
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LaunchedJuly 4, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-07-04)
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The Daily Stormer is an American far-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, misogynist, Islamophobic,[1] antisemitic, and Holocaust denial commentary and message board website that advocates for a second genocide of Jews.[2][3][4][5][6] It is part of the alt-right movement.[7][8][9] Its editor, Andrew Anglin, founded the outlet on July 4, 2013, as a faster-paced replacement for his previous website Total Fascism, which had focused on his own long-form essays on fascism, race, and antisemitic conspiracy theories. In contrast, The Daily Stormer relies heavily on quoted material with exaggerated headlines.[10]

The site is known for its use of Internet memes, which have been likened to the imageboard 4chan and cited as attractions for a younger and more ideologically diverse audience.[11] While some white nationalist authors have praised The Daily Stormer's reach, others have taken issue with its content and tone, accusing Anglin of being an agent provocateur, used to discredit true white nationalism.[12]

The Daily Stormer orchestrates what it calls the "Troll Army", which is involved in Internet trolling of figures with whom Anglin disagrees politically. In August 2017, after causing outrage by insulting the victim of a car-ramming homicide at the far-right Unite the Right rally, the website was rejected by several domain registrars.[13][14][15][16][17] In August 2019, the site went offline temporarily when their service provider, BitMitigate, was cut off by their cloud infrastructure provider; the site found another provider.[18]

In June 2019, a federal judge ordered Anglin to pay $4.1 million to comedian Dean Obeidallah, whom Anglin had falsely accused of orchestrating the Manchester Arena bombing.[19] In July 2019, a federal magistrate recommended that Anglin pay $14 million to Tanya Gersh, a woman from Whitefish, Montana against whom Anglin had organized a targeted harassment campaign.[20]

  1. ^ Avi Selk (October 24, 2017). "Why the Islamophobic publisher of a neo-Nazi website is hiding from a group of Muslims". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  2. ^ Wines, Michael (July 5, 2015). "White Supremacists Extend Their Reach Through Websites". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 24, 2015. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
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  4. ^ O'Brien, Luke (January 19, 2018). "American Neo-Nazi Is Using Holocaust Denial As A Legal Defense". HuffPost. Archived from the original on April 23, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  5. ^ O'Brein, Luke (December 2017). "The Making of an American Nazi". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on April 4, 2018. Retrieved April 4, 2018. (As Anglin would later write, the official policy of his site was: "Jews should be exterminated.")
  6. ^ Reaves, Jessica (July 31, 2018). "Mapping the Male Supremacy Movement: The Alt-Right's Woman Problem". Ms. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  7. ^ Main, Thomas J. (July 31, 2018). The Rise of the Alt-Right. Brookings Institution Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8157-3290-7 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Fielitz, Maik; Thurston, Nick (December 31, 2018). Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US. transcript Verlag. p. 25. ISBN 978-3-8394-4670-6 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Gallo, William (August 25, 2016). "What is the 'Alt-Right'?". Voice of America. Archived from the original on September 19, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
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  12. ^ Hankes, Keegan (October 23, 2014). "White nationalism's exploding civil war". Salon. Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
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  18. ^ Brodkin, Jon (August 5, 2019). "Dumped by Cloudflare, 8chan gets back online—then gets kicked off again". Ars Technica. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  19. ^ "Neo-Nazi website hit with $4.1 million defamation penalty". NBC News. Associated Press. June 12, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
  20. ^ Larson, Seaborn (July 15, 2019). "Judge: Neo-Nazi blogger owes Whitefish woman $14M". missoulian.com. Retrieved July 16, 2019.