White nationalist site's leaked info shows how its ideology spreads: report
A publishing company that puts out white nationalist literature and is run by a man who praises Adolf Hitler reportedly saw its data leaked, resulting in the world getting a glimpse into how the hateful ideology is spread online.
Self-described white nationalist Greg Johnson is the head of Counter-Currents Publishing, which insists white people are "under attack" and encourages white people to promote their white "heritage." Data from that website was leaked, providing additional details about the highly secretive publisher, according to the Guardian's report.
"A data leak from the website of a white nationalist publisher has revealed recordings, published and unpublished documents, and hitherto private interview recordings that shed light on the way in which the organization promotes its ideology online," the outlet reported on Saturday. "The internal data from Counter-Currents, a publishing house co-founded and run by notoriously secretive far-right ideologue Greg Johnson, was exposed in an Amazon cloud storage container that was left unlocked on the open internet."
While a lot of the information appears to be already published by the site, there is also new data, the Guardian wrote.
"Much of the leaked trove consists of archives, plugins and configuration files for the Counter-Currents website. Many of the material in the cache matches images, audio files, and documents currently published on the Counter-Currents website. Matching files include audio files of Counter-Currents Radio podcasts, PDF documents of far-right books the organization has shared with readers and image files," it wrote. "Some of the material in the cache, however, has never been published."
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One example of an unpublished item was a controversial interview with its co-founder.
"One such file is a recording of a 2017 interview between an American journalist and Counter-Currents co-founder, Michael Polignano, who was billed in the site’s early days as 'managing editor and webmaster' of Counter-Currents, and who has lived in the Hungarian capital of Budapest since 2014," the Guardian wrote Saturday.