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The platform does allow users to report material that violates their content guidelines. Image: Spotify removed nearly 150 hours of content after Sky News reported it to the streaming service One link directs users to a video of a reading of what it calls "Dylann Roof’s insightful manifesto". The creator often used the episode description box on Spotify to advertise videos shared on other platforms.
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The hosts casually and openly promote a range of antisemitic and racist beliefs and theories, including Holocaust denial and scientific racism.Ī third series from a different creator included episodes discussing what they refer to as the "beauty" of white supremacy, as well as readings of essays and books by prominent figures of the Nazi Party, including Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels.
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This is just one of the series we came across.Īnother one, hosted by US-based alt-right creators, uses racist slurs and white supremacist symbols in the episode titles and descriptions. The spread of these ideas can really have a noticeable impact in compelling people to go on and commit atrocious violence." "And after that attack, there were a number of others throughout 2019. "In 2019, when an individual committed a really horrific terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, he was directly doing that in response to this theory," said Mr Davey Image: 51 people were killed in the 2019 Christchurch attack "It's gone from what really was quite a fringe talking point among a few European extremists to the bread and butter discussion of extremists globally," he told Sky News.īut these ideas do not exist in an online vacuum, he said. Jacob Davey, head of research and policy of far right and hate movements at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said it was a belief that had been steadily increasing in popularity over the past decade. The Kalergi Plan is a variation of the white nationalist Great Replacement conspiracy theory. "It feels like it's normalising this sort of thing if you can go on Spotify and listen to Adele, and then you can listen to this stuff right next to it." he said. Now that's just what's reported, which is always only the tip of the iceberg." "Early this May we had the highest number of reported incidents of antisemitism and, in the year to March, we had 115,000 reported incidents of hate crime. "This is incredibly dangerous," he told Sky News. We showed our findings to Maurice Mcleod of Race on the Agenda, a social research charity focusing on issues impacting ethnic minorities in the UK.
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The album artwork for the series depicts the raven flag - a symbol originally found in Norse mythology, but one that has been appropriated by some white supremacists in recent years. Image: This flag from Norse mythology has been adopted by some white supremacists The monologue is littered with dehumanising language and makes comparisons that are too offensive to be included in this article.
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He promotes this view, unchallenged, for 13 minutes. "There is something about that makes us privileged, it’s in our blood," he says. The nine-minute monologue ends with an explicit call to violence against Jewish people.Īnother episode by the same creator advances the racist and unfounded idea that white people are biologically superior to people of colour. He claims that the European elite has been "replaced" by a "new urban nobility" made up of Jewish elites. In one episode, the speaker explicitly promotes the Kalergi Plan. We have chosen not to name any of the podcast series mentioned in this article to avoid publicising their content. The so-called "Kalergi Plan" is a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory which alleges that Jewish elites are behind a deliberate plan to erase the white European race by promoting mass immigration. One of the first results returned on Spotify when searching for the phrase "Kalergi Plan" directed us to a series which, at the time, had 76 episodes listed on the platform. Image: Spotify is one of the biggest podcast streaming platforms, with over three million podcasts