From vaccine scepticism to calls to ‘drain the billabong’, a growing number of Liberal and National figures are playing directly to the political fringes
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Following the siege of the US Capitol, encrypted messaging app, Telegram, purged dozens of violent accounts that had called for the attack, including some Neo-Nazi channels.
But closer to home, an Australian Neo-Nazi continues to post white supremacist rants on his Telegram channel and more recently, a video of himself allegedly assaulting a Channel Nine employee.
The alleged assault occurred ahead of the airing of a segment by
A Current Affair last night. The investigation interviewed experts about “homegrown extremists” and featured the man and his organisation.
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According to independent researcher, Dr Kaz Ross, the man s main channel has gained over two thousand followers since the airing of the A Current Affair promo.
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Some of Donald Trump’s most extreme supporters on the far-right appear to have abandoned the President after he incited, and subsequently condemned, the violent mob which stormed Capitol Hill.
The break-in of The Capitol on January 6, in which five people died, followed a rally organised by the Trump administration to dispute the election result.
The President’s supporters, including members of several well-known extremist and white-supremacist groups, broke into The Capitol and attempted to stop the counting of the electoral college ballots that would formally confirm Joe Biden’s presidency.
A mobile phone displays the suspended status of the Twitter account of US President Donald Trump.