Daily Stormer Still Active on Russia’s Largest Social Network VK

The group is still active however on Russia’s leading social networking website VK, the Russian equivalent of Facebook.

The Daily Stormer’s page dates to April 11, when the group uploaded a profile picture of a Nazi eagle towering over a skull.

It was mostly dormant until Aug. 15 when a post appeared announcing: “Daily Stormer is now available only by Tor Browser. Google has seized our domain name.”

A day later it announced: “back on the normie web, with a .ru domain,” providing a link to the website which is now blocked.

The last post appeared Wednesday evening saying: “Cloudfare just dropped us. We’ll have to build an alternative.”

The page has 249 members and most have Russian names. It contains several images that depict Nazi symbolism, including a picture of a swastika and the text: “White Power.”

Russian law explicitly forbids Nazi imagery and Russians have previously been convicted on extremism charges of “promoting Nazi symbolism” after sharing pictures on VK.


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