From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the day.

Today, it let them be anonymous, use hate speech and post emojis of Hitler.

It also let them plan the rally in Charlottesville.

How white supremacists and neo-Nazi millennials used their favorite social network before they were kicked off.

It's Friday, August 18th.

How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him?

Are we going to take down the statue because he was a major slave owner. Now we're going to take down his statue.

So you know what? It's fine. You're changing history, you're changing culture, and you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazi.

On Tuesday evening, while the president was giving his off-the-cuff remarks from Trump Tower on the violence in Charlottesville,

my colleague Kevin Rus signed into a website called Discord and watched while white supremacists and neo-Nazis responded in real time.

Let's see. We've got one guy named, it's like a long German name, Reich's Biblioteckar Sven, who says, I love how Trump actually defended us.

Glorious. Another guy says, I want white supremacy, but it's a real turn-off to normies and their votes. We just got to get more subtle about it.

And then he says, Trump is now our guy again.

Wow.

So how do you know all this? How are you able to actually see these responses?

For the last few months, I've been embedded in a number of right-wing and alt-right Discord servers.

I've been able to access to their sort of inter-sanked chat rooms, so I could read what these guys are talking about when they think no one else is watching.

Let me ask you about Discord, because I went and googled it, and it says, Free Voice and Text Chat for gamers.

Yeah. So Discord started as a chat app for people who play video games. It was like where you would go to talk with your warcraft teammates and talk about strategy and stuff.

But several months ago, the alt-right and white nationalists discovered that, hey, this is a pretty secure platform. It allows us to be anonymous.

So this is a really good place for them to craft and disseminate their message and organize their movement.

Talk me through the first time that you got into one of these groups, these servers.

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