Luke Huizenga

🦄 Police , 🦄 Racism & Far-Right , 🦄 Tech The Far-Right’s Fascination with the U.S. Electric Grid Over the past two years, government agencies have been warning that white supremacists and far-right extremists are the most significant domestic threat to American security. Moore County, NC experienced a blackout in early December 2022 that affected more than 45,000 residents after two local substations were sabotaged in a way resembling white supremacist plots against vulnerable infrastructure.

Due to the nature of certain content in this article, some sources have been left anonymous in order to avoid spreading further hate or expose individual identities. In order to fully understand the normalization of white supremacy, a distinction needs to be made between the terms “supremacy” and “nationalism”. White supremacy is a general belief that the white race is superior to all others. White nationalism is akin to white supremacy, but includes a sense of identity through belonging somewhere.

Rantt Writer Luke Huizenga took a deep dive into social networks that cultivate extremism and became consumed in a whirlpool of disinformation and hate. Proud Boys in Raleigh, North Carolina – November 28, 2020. (Anthony Crider, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) This is the follow-up to an investigative piece I wrote in February about disinformation and hate speech on alt-tech social media platforms. The original story can be found here.