Whether its a white pride group or a group of neo-nazis, extremeists groups often use social media to promote their beliefs and gain recruitments. These are another example of online communities, as they bond over a mutual belief.
The NSM or National Socialist Movement is a global neo nazi extremist group that has a large online presence. On their site they have many videos including one to a song that includes the lyrics 'we want our country back now'. They have thousands of members and is the largest National Socialist party in America and was founded in 1967. They also join with other white supremacist groups and anti-jew groups in order to increase their member number. The website acts as a base for the community, detailing the latest news, showing videos and stating their opinions very opening against minority groups.
A video on the NSM site that is played to disturbing lyrics
Gerstenfeld, Grant and Chiang (2003) conducted a content analysis of extremist Internet
sites and found that only roughly half of the sites utilise multimedia content. NSM is one of those groups and utilises this type of media in order to appeal to possible new members, and will also be more appealing to children or teenagers.
One link on the site is to New Saxon an online social networking site for solely for white people of european decent. This again brings their community together, and had the potential to grow quite large.
This is why Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a site that is dedicated to preventing this in justice. 'The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors hate groups and extremists throughout the United States and exposes their activities to law enforcement agencies, the media and the public' (SPLC, 2013).
So whilst the idea may be worrying that there are so many hate extremist groups throughout the internet, there are still organisations that help fight against them.
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