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'El Daily Stormer': Neo-Nazi Website Now in Spanish, Too

by Associated Press

   How does a leading neo-Nazi website that has railed against Hispanic
   immigrants expand its audience beyond a loyal base of U.S. white
   supremacists? By publishing a Spanish-language edition, of course.
   The Daily Stormer -- infamous for orchestrating internet harassment
   campaigns by its "Troll Army" of readers -- recently launched El Daily
   Stormer as a "news portal" tailoring its racist, anti-Semitic content
   for readers in Spain and Latin America.
   Andrew Auernheimer, a notorious computer hacker and internet troll who
   writes for the English-language site, says the Spanish edition fits
   their mission to spread Hitlerism across the world.
   "We want our message to reach millions more people," he said in a
   telephone interview.
   Hate sites have realized that the U.S. has no monopoly on white
   nationalists and other far-right extremists, says Heidi Beirich,
   director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project.
   Others, such as Stormfront, already created multilingual forums.
   "The white supremacist movement has really viewed itself as past
   borders, reaching out to white people in other countries," Beirich
   said.
   The law center represents a Montana real estate agent who sued The
   Daily Stormer's founder, Andrew Anglin, last month for unleashing an
   anti-Semitic "campaign of terror" against her family.
   Anonymous trolls bombarded Tanya Gersh's family with hateful and
   threatening messages after Anglin published the family's personal
   information in a December post that accused Gersh and other Jewish
   residents of Whitefish, Montana, of engaging in an "extortion racket"
   against the mother of white nationalist Richard Spencer.
   Anglin's site takes its name from Der Stürmer, a newspaper that
   published Nazi propaganda. It includes sections called "Jewish Problem"
   and "Race War."
   El Daily Stormer titles its anti-Semitic section "Judiadas," an
   offensive term with roots in medieval Spain, where it was invoked to
   justify genocidal attacks on Jews.
   The Spanish site also includes appeals for donations and unpaid
   articles, and a forum where people complain about Chile and Argentina
   filling up with "negros," referring to people from Peru, Bolivia,
   Paraguay.
   Auernheimer, known online as "weev," said a team of volunteers is
   writing original content for the Spanish-language site. The site's
   appeal for unpaid collaborators says being a dissident "has never been
   a lucrative activity," and that it is looking for writers "willing to
   risk everything for the survival of our race."
   "We have a big Spanish-speaking population on our forums, so it was an
   easy direction to branch out into," he said.
   About 40 percent of The Daily Stormer's 3.2 million unique monthly
   visitors are in the U.S.; the Spanish edition has added fewer than
   10,000 since its recent launch, Auernheimer said.
   Surpassing Stormfront as the top U.S. hate site hasn't been a financial
   boon for The Daily Stormer, which calls itself "100 percent
   reader-supported." Anglin complained in January that a Ukrainian
   advertising company had banned them, leaving an Australian electrician
   as the site's only advertiser.
   "We don't have revenue commensurate with a publication of our size,"
   Auernheimer said.