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Far-right support
Public support for far-right parties, movements or figures.
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Blog post promoting "The Rape Gang Inquiry", a report released by Rupert Lowe, leader of the Restore Britain party, which Al Jazeera describes as far-right and which pledges mass deportations. The post describes the abuse as committed "by predominantly Pakistani Muslims against mostly White British girls".
“It details the industrial-scale sexual atrocities committed by predominantly Pakistani Muslims against mostly White British girls in the United Kingdom over decades.”
Posted that only Restore Britain, the party led by MP Rupert Lowe that pledges a programme of mass deportations and is described by Al Jazeera as far-right, can save Britain.
“Only Restore Britain can save Britain”
A Guardian investigation found Substack earning revenue from paid newsletters promoting Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, taking about 10% of their income. One, NatSocToday, charged $80 a year to 2,800 subscribers, and Substack's algorithm directed the Guardian's test account to 21 similar profiles within two hours.
Response: Substack did not respond to the Guardian's request for comment.
Blog post about the London march organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson on 13 September 2025, saying he would no longer dream of moving to London because it is "no longer full of native Brits", calling the march "powerful" and its flags "heartwarming", and rejecting the "far right" label for the marchers.
“Unwilling to resign the rest of the country to the kind of demographic replacement that befell London over the last two decades.”
Addressed by video link Tommy Robinson's "Unite the Kingdom" anti-immigration rally in London, called for the dissolution of Parliament and an early election to remove Keir Starmer's government, and told the crowd that violence was coming to them and that they must fight back or die. Starmer's spokesman condemned "dangerous and inflammatory language which threatens violence and intimidation on our streets".
“Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die.”
Endorsed Advance UK, the party led by former Reform UK deputy leader Ben Habib, which The Independent places among Britain's far-right fringe parties, writing that it would "actually drive change" while calling Nigel Farage "weak sauce".
“Advance UK will actually drive change. Farage is weak sauce who will do nothing”
Substack's app sent a push notification encouraging users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a newsletter describing itself as serving the "National Socialist and White Nationalist Community" with a swastika logo; its profile then recommended other white nationalist publications on the platform.
Response: Substack said an error caused some people to receive push notifications "they should never have received", called it a serious error, apologised and said it had taken the relevant system offline.
Reacted to Marine Le Pen's conviction for misusing EU funds by accusing the "radical left" of abusing the legal system to jail opponents, then a few days later reposted a Trump message with "Free Le Pen".
“When the radical left can't win via democratic vote, they abuse the legal system to jail their opponents.”
Reposted a clip of Donald Trump praising Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain's far-right Vox party, at CPAC, adding that Vox would win Spain's next election.
“Vox will win the next election”
At the Munich Security Conference, a week before German federal elections, said nothing was more urgent than mass migration and that there was "no room for firewalls", the term for German parties' refusal to cooperate with the far-right AfD. Germany's defense minister called the speech unacceptable.
“Of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration.”
Met AfD co-leader and chancellor candidate Alice Weidel at his hotel in Munich (for about 30 minutes, according to her spokesperson), nine days before the German federal election and on the day of his Munich Security Conference speech against "firewalls" excluding the far right. A German government spokesperson said it was wrong for foreigners to intervene so heavily in an election campaign.
Response: His office confirmed the meeting and said he met leaders of all of Germany's major parties.
Appeared by video at a campaign rally of the far-right AfD in Halle, Germany, telling the audience there was too much focus on past guilt and that children should not be guilty of the sins of their great-grandparents.
“There is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that.”
At a Trump inauguration event at Capital One Arena in Washington, thumped his right hand over his heart and then extended his right arm upward, palm down, toward the crowd, and repeated the gesture toward the crowd behind him, before saying "My heart goes out to you". The gesture was widely compared to a Nazi salute; its meaning is disputed.
Response: Musk did not explicitly address the gesture's intent; he wrote on X "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired." He replied "Thanks guys" to the ADL, which had written "It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute".
On his first day back in office, signed a proclamation granting full pardons to people convicted of offenses related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol (about 1,500 people, by his own count), commuting the sentences of 14 others to time served, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, and directing the dismissal of pending indictments. Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, convicted of seditious conspiracy, was pardoned. The proclamation said it "ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years".
Hosted a livestreamed conversation on X with AfD chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, followed by about 200,000 listeners, during which he urged Germans to back the party; Weidel claimed in the exchange that Adolf Hitler was a "communist". European Commission officials monitored the event under the Digital Services Act.
“People really need to get behind the AfD. Otherwise, things are going to get very much worse in Germany.”
Posted "Free Tommy Robinson" on X while the far-right activist and English Defence League founder was serving an 18-month sentence for breaching a High Court injunction issued after he defamed a Syrian refugee schoolboy.
“Free Tommy Robinson”
Published a guest op-ed in the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag presenting the far-right AfD as "the last spark of hope" for Germany ahead of the February 2025 federal election. The head of the paper's opinion section, Eva Marie Kogel, resigned over its publication.
“Die Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) ist der letzte Funke Hoffnung für dieses Land.”
Posted "Only the AfD can save Germany" on X, reposting a video by German right-wing influencer Naomi Seibt, two months before the February 2025 federal election. The AfD is classified by German domestic intelligence as a suspected right-wing extremist party; SPD secretary-general Matthias Miersch called the post election interference.
“Only the AfD can save Germany”
L'Humanité revealed the "Périclès" plan backed by Stérin: about €150 million over ten years, naming "socialism, wokism, Islamism, immigration" as enemies, aiming to help the Rassemblement National win 300 towns in 2026 and to build a reserve of 1,000 people for government posts ahead of 2027, and claiming a "relationship of trust" with Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen.
Response: Stérin's teams confirmed the plan to Le Journal du Dimanche, describing the document as "un peu daté".
Announced that the X account of Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and antisemite banned from Twitter in July 2021, would be reinstated "provided he does not violate the law".
“It is better to have anti whatever out in the open to be rebutted than grow simmering in the darkness.”
After The Atlantic reported on Substack newsletters with overt Nazi symbols and more than 200 writers asked the company why it was "platforming and monetizing Nazis", co-founder Hamish McKenzie said Substack would not remove or demonetize such publications absent incitement to violence, as the company keeps a cut of their subscription revenue.
“we don't think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away—in fact, it makes it worse.”
Response: In January 2024 Substack removed five publications that Platformer had flagged, saying they broke its existing rule against incitement to violence, while stating it was not changing its content guidelines.
Restored the X account of Infowars host Alex Jones, described by NBC News as a far-right radio host, banned from Twitter in 2018 for abusive behaviour, after a poll he posted showed about 70% of respondents in favour. Jones had repeatedly called the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, and relatives of victims had won nearly $1.5 billion in defamation judgments against him. In November 2022 Musk had said he would not reinstate Jones.
“The people have spoken and so it shall be.”
Response: Musk presented the move as a matter of free speech, writing that it was likely that Community Notes "will respond rapidly to any AJ post that needs correction."
Shared a post criticising German NGO sea-rescue operations in the Mediterranean that said it hoped the far-right AfD would win elections "to stop this European suicide", asked whether the German public was aware, and wrote that bringing migrants to Italian soil "has invasion vibes". The German Foreign Ministry replied that the operations were saving lives.
“Is the German public aware of this?”
ProPublica reported that Cloudflare provided its services to neo-Nazi sites such as The Daily Stormer and, under its abuse-reporting process, forwarded the names and email addresses of people who complained about their content to the sites' operators, which led to harassment campaigns against complainants. CEO Matthew Prince had written that service providers have no "affirmative obligation" to monitor content on their network.
Response: In response to ProPublica, Cloudflare said it would change its abuse reporting system so people could complain more safely. On August 16, 2017, it announced it had terminated The Daily Stormer's service.
After receiving more than 10,000 emails, tweets and messages urging Shopify to drop the online store of Breitbart News, CEO Tobias Lütke published a blog post defending the decision to keep hosting it on free-speech grounds. Fortune described Breitbart as a far-right website; TechCrunch described it as a right-wing publication that regularly publishes racist and sexist headlines and content.
“We don't like Breitbart, but products are speech and we are pro free speech”
Response: Lütke argued that applying a moral lens to which stores operate on Shopify would amount to censorship, calling commerce "a powerful, underestimated form of expression"; a spokesperson said Shopify is a "neutral platform".
Hosted a dinner party on 29 July 2016 attended by white nationalist Kevin DeAnna while backing Donald Trump's campaign, and emailed him the next day, according to emails obtained by BuzzFeed News.
“really enjoyed meeting you last night”
Response: Thiel did not respond to BuzzFeed News's request for comment.