Far-right extremists raise money through Buy Me A Coffee, YouTube – AFR

In the report, right-wing extremism is defined as support for violence to achieve political outcomes relating to white supremacism and neo-Nazism, but not just limited to those ideologies.Telegram is an encrypted messaging platform, while Buy Me A Coffee and Ko-fi are platforms that allow users to make ongoing or one-off contributions to a person.By analysing nine Telegram channels that share right-wing extremist content to more than 100 subscribers, Ms Bogle has mapped how right-wing extremist content creators or activists request funding for legal defences, or to support further content creation through streaming sites such as DLive.tv, Trovo and Entropy, and using payment methods like PayPal, Square and cryptocurrency.‘Flexible’ rulesMs Bogle uses the example of Thomas Sewell, a Melbourne man who is defending armed robbery, assault and violent disorder charges, and who describes himself as “a political soldier for the white race”.His 12,500 followers across his social media channels appear to have donated money to fund his legal expenses via Buy Me A Coffee, and claimed to have donated between $US3 ($4.20) and $US50 ($70) while Mr Sewell livestreamed on Entropy, a video platform that can receive streams from the likes of YouTube while still collecting donations.“People are familiar with cryptocurrencies…
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