A two-part documentary has been embraced by far-right figures and decried by anti-fascist activists.
TV presenter Todd Sampson has come in for criticism over an in-the-works program featuring neo-Nazis.will examine the links between social media and hate.
Todd Sampson has come under attack for giving airtime to neo-Nazis in a forthcoming new series of Mirror Mirror. “The violent Islamophobic rhetoric of neo-Nazis Blair Cottrell and Tom Sewell and their group the United Patriots Front were a major factor in the radicalisation of Brenton Tarrant and his act of terror, slaughtering 51 Muslims at prayer in Christchurch,” the Society said in the thread.
After Facebook removed the group’s page in May 2017, several former members created the Lads Society. Founding member Thomas Sewell “contacted the individual online and invited him to join,” the report states. The latter, Tanuki advised, “shouldn’t be incorporated into media projects of any kind … they are savvy media manipulators and they use this kind of platform to mainstream their own interests or include coded messaging for trolling/political ends.”
In rhetoric typical of far-right figures who seek to portray themselves as victims of an oppressive system, Sewell added: “If the producers pull out from Communist or Oligarch pressure, we will post large sections of the interviews that we have.”