The move is part of an ongoing theme among the far right when western apps remove or moderate their accounts
Two masked men are in frame, wearing camouflage and sitting opposite each other. A table is between them and they’re in the middle of what they’re alleging is an American forest.
“You want to be as high up on the chain for modern warfare,” one of the men says under garbled voice distortion, while explaining the finer points of a fantasy insurgency against the US government.
The video, less than 20 minutes, is propaganda from the proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group the Base.
“You want to have the best weaponry for war; to have the best tactics for war,” the man continues, “especially here in America.”
The video, meant to entice Americans to join its ranks, isn’t on YouTube or even a social media site most people know. Instead, it’s being hosted on Rutube, a Russian-government-sponsored knockoff.