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Dan Collen

Ottawa, Toronto
As seen in: Medium, VICE, GNET, Canadian Anti-Hate Network
Covers:  Conspiracy theorists, Alt-right politics, Fringe politics, Music, Alternative subcultures, Hate Groups, Cults, Canadian news, Canadian politics, American politics, Progressive politics
Doesn't Cover: Feel good stories, Economics, Food, Sports, Popular culture, Fashion, Technology
Researcher. Hatepedia.ca co-creator. Words @antihateca, @gnet_research, @vice, dancollen.medium.com, & more. Affiliate @cifrsorg. Tweets about the Horrors. H/h.
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Global Terrorist Financing Report

Global Terrorist Financing Report

Unmasking the Financial Networks of Extremism in February 2024

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Comedy Trio with White Nationalist Connections Face Canceled Shows

Comedy Trio with White Nationalist Connections Face Canceled Shows

Danger Cats are no stranger to cancellations, most notoriously over accusations of anti-Indigenous racism. Va…

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Terrorist Financing News Roundup

Terrorist Financing News Roundup

All the terrorist financing news from around the world for January 2024. Covers developments with ISIL, the M…

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The Diagolon Network

The Diagolon Network

Group Profile of the Diagolon network and how it relates to the broader Canadian and international extreme ri…

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Nazis on Substack

Nazis on Substack

How Nazis on substack use the platform to generate revenue. In our analysis, some of the newsletters with the…

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Terrorist Financing News Roundup

Terrorist Financing News Roundup

Terrorist financing news from December 2023

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Terrorist Financing News Roundup

Terrorist Financing News Roundup

November 2023

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"Incelcore" Artists Whose Music Celebrates Mass Shootings On Canadian Tour

"Incelcore" Artists Whose Music Celebrates Mass Shootings On Canadian Tour

While one artist has direct connections to white nationalism, others' songs make light of the 2019 Christchur…

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Terrorist Financing News

Terrorist Financing News

Our news, analysis, and writing from October 2023

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"Let Them Kill Each Other": The Israel-Palestine War is the Perfect Storm for Canada's Far-Right ...

"Let Them Kill Each Other": The Israel-Palestine War is the Perfect Storm for Canada's Far-Right ...

Opportunistic far-right extremists in Canada have used news of the war to expose new audiences to tropes that…

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Woman Claims to Drive a School Bus While Homeschooling Her Kids to Be Neo-Nazis

Woman Claims to Drive a School Bus While Homeschooling Her Kids to Be Neo-Nazis

A Durham-area woman behind a series of pseudonymous neo-Nazi social media accounts posted an image of a Pride…

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Trustees And Students Face Smears And Threats From Anti-Trans Activists

Trustees And Students Face Smears And Threats From Anti-Trans Activists

"What I'm seeing from where I sit is a coordinated network of hate," says Waterloo's Director of Education.

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Slate with Transphobic and Far-Right Candidates Running to "Stop Woke" in Law Society of Ontario

Slate with Transphobic and Far-Right Candidates Running to "Stop Woke" in Law Society of Ontario

An open letter from former Treasurers of the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has asked LSO members to vote again…

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Netflix Movie "You People" Laughs off Popular Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory

Netflix Movie "You People" Laughs off Popular Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory

In the new Jonah Hill and Kenya Barris hit, little clarity is given that Jews did not, in fact, secretly play…

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Philosophy Group Accused of Fascist Influence Hopes to Grow in Canada

Philosophy Group Accused of Fascist Influence Hopes to Grow in Canada

From 1957 until today, the esoteric new religious organization New Acropolis has operated on a global scale, …

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Nazis in Ukraine's Military May be Fringe. That Doesn't Mean They Should Be Ignored.

Nazis in Ukraine's Military May be Fringe. That Doesn't Mean They Should Be Ignored.

Earlier this week, the New York Times published a story on Russian disinformation that specifically used Nazi…

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The Buffalo Shooter’s Manifesto Is Full of 4Chan Pranks and Misdirection.

The Buffalo Shooter’s Manifesto Is Full of 4Chan Pranks and Misdirection.

If you don’t have to read the manifesto, I would strongly urge you not to touch it. If you’re familiar with /…

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Did The Trailer for Tucker Carlson's Documentary Reference a Nazi Meme Co-opted From a Bigfoot...

Did The Trailer for Tucker Carlson's Documentary Reference a Nazi Meme Co-opted From a Bigfoot...

On Friday, April 15, Tucker Carlson's websites released a trailer for The End of Men, an episode in the upcom…

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"Honk Honk" Was An Antisemitic Meme Long Before The Convoy Started Using It - Canadian Anti-Hate ...

"Honk Honk" Was An Antisemitic Meme Long Before The Convoy Started Using It - Canadian Anti-Hate ...

Dan Collen is a researcher at the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre's Online Hate Research…

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Memetic Warfare, Q Anon, Trolls, and More: A Walk Through Protest Signs in Ottawa's Occupation

Memetic Warfare, Q Anon, Trolls, and More: A Walk Through Protest Signs in Ottawa's Occupation

I spent an afternoon photographing signage in and around parliament during the occupation of Ottawa for the O…

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Canada Convoy Update

Canada Convoy Update

Listen to this episode from It Could Happen Here on Spotify. Dan Collen joins us once again to give an update…

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Canadian Trucker Convoy

Canadian Trucker Convoy

Listen to this episode from It Could Happen Here on Spotify. We talk with journalist Dan Collen (@SpinelessL)…

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Electric Wizard Releases Music on Label Known For Nazi-Themed Metal

Electric Wizard Releases Music on Label Known For Nazi-Themed Metal

Electric Wizard Releases Music on Label Known For Nazi-Themed Metal. The doom metal pioneer's newest music wa…

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79: Anti-Hate Work in Canada (w/Dan Collen, Elizabeth Simons, & Morgan Yew)

79: Anti-Hate Work in Canada (w/Dan Collen, Elizabeth Simons, & Morgan Yew)

Listen to this episode from Conspirituality on Spotify. COVID has been a recruiting windfall for hate groups …

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