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CYBER

How ‘Unicorn Riot’ Exposes The Far Right Online

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week, CYBER speaks to Freddy Martinez, one of the members of Unicorn Riot, an activist and media collective that’s been tracking and exposing nazis, racists, and other far-right people on the internet. 

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0:00.0

Tannen, it's got the code. It's going to launch.

0:11.0

It's a unit system.

0:13.0

I know this.

0:15.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

Eagle one.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:25.7

A month ago, the group Identity Europa, what I would term a gross hipster take on white

0:30.6

supremacism and neo-Nazism, got completely nuked by an online publication known as Unicorn

0:36.3

Riot.

0:37.4

What they did was dump a series of 770,000

0:40.1

messages from the Identity Europa Discord, Slack, and other chat channels, exposing the group's

0:45.8

attempts at grooming its image since the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

0:50.0

Jews will not replace us! Jews will not replace us.

0:56.0

The plan was to go mainstream and be a player in American politics.

1:00.0

Identity Europa tried to rebrand as simply pro-white, decrying their neo-Nazi labels.

1:05.2

I think that would be a major shift, yes, if we could finally start having a dialogue and not one of these,

1:10.5

oh, we need to talk about race,

1:12.2

but let's just bring on a person of European heritage who's going to sit there as a stool pigeon as a yes man.

1:18.5

But inside the chats reveals that was total BS.

1:22.6

The unicorn riot dump is an example of how people are trying to fight back online

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