Article 4VEWK White nationalists are openly operating on Facebook. The company won't act

White nationalists are openly operating on Facebook. The company won't act

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Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco
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Guardian analysis finds VDare and Red Ice TV among several outlets that are still on the platform despite Facebook's promised ban

On 7 November, Lana Lokteff, an American white nationalist, introduced a "thought criminal and political prisoner and friend" as a featured guest on her internet talk show, Red Ice TV.

For about 90 minutes, Lokteff and her guest - Greg Johnson, a prominent white nationalist and editor-in-chief of the white nationalist publisher Counter-Currents - discussed Johnson's recent arrest in Norway amid authorities' concerns about his past expression of "respect" for the far-right mass murderer Anders Breivik. In 2012, Johnson wrote that he was angered by Breivik's crimes because he feared they would harm the cause of white nationalism but had discovered a "strange new respect" for him during his trial; Breivik's murder of 77 people has been cited as an inspiration by the suspected Christchurch killer, the man who murdered the British MP Jo Cox, and a US coast guard officer accused of plotting a white nationalist terror attack.

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