![]() ![]() The account regularly tweeted about Blair Cottrell and National Socialist Network Thomas tweet about Australian neo-nazis (Image: Twitter)ĭuncan did not respond to questions about the myriad similarities between himself and tweets. strong interest in Australian far-right figures and groups despite supposedly living in the US.tweeted about Korea, including sharing an anecdote from being there around the same time as Duncan and liking a movie that Duncan gave nine stars, New World Duncan shares a strong familiarity with Korean culture with Duncan used to teach English in Korea, has posted online about having a Korean wife and has reviewed a lot of Korean films.A few weeks later, an IMDb profile belonging to Duncan gave the movie one star. Duncan also seems to share his taste and viewing pattern of films with On New Year’s Eve 2022, tweeted that the film Power of the Dog was “awful, do not watch”.Duncan left a Google review at the same time for a Spanish hotel that had three Ukrainian flags at the time įrom left clockwise: a tweet from a Google review left by Sam Duncan, and an image from the hotel’s Instagram (Image: Twitter, Google, Instagram) For example, complained that his hotel “has three Ukrainian flags hanging over the door” in May last year. The account’s movements appear to match Duncan’s travels through Europe, the Middle East and South Africa.A shared email account between and Duncan up until the account was deleted.There are many links between Duncan and the tweets of made after the supposed account handover that undermine the claim that he is not responsible for the account. Crikey did not receive any more correspondence and Duncan did not provide any way to contact this individual, nor any proof that he had handed over his account. This person, in Duncan’s telling, subsequently changed the Twitter name and started tweeting content that Duncan does “not endorse or condone”.ĭuncan promised to contact the individual who could clear things up. He said that the account - which until October 2020 used the username and was linked to his Daily Mail Australia author profile - was taken over by a US-based friend. The account was deleted last week after Crikey sent a request for comment.ĭuncan denies he is responsible for this content. One of its posts was even featured in an investigation revealing a Fox News producer’s history of liking racist and sexist tweets. It has collaborated with a group called Anti-White Watch, which was called a “sinister new effort from white nationalists to co-opt the language of social justice”. Sam Duncan’s now-deleted pseudonymous Twitter account (Image: Twitter) This includes criticising people for their “Naziphobia” and commending countries for expelling Muslims and Jewish residents. The account regularly tweeted racist, anti-Semitic, anti-immigration and anti-vaccine content to its 32,000 followers. ![]() He joins a number of far-right individuals exposed by Crikey as writing in mainstream publications such as Spectator Australia. Crikey can reveal that he is also the person behind the account, the handle of which is wordplay that combines the name of the sociopathic central character of American Psycho character Patrick Bateman and an alt-right internet slang term “based”. Why? Because that gives them more control over driving, one of the last bastions of freedom,” tweeted a year later, a strikingly similar article appeared on the Daily Mail Australia website headlined: “Another vehicle of control: There’s a dark side to the rise of electric cars that could rob us of the freedom and pleasure of driving forever.” Towards the end of 2021, a white supremacist Twitter account fired off a flurry of posts about how the introduction of electric cars was a conspiracy to control the public.
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