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Continued from Front appealing to a younger
But, he continued, "so and younger crowd."
many false alarms drown For example, on Instagram,
out threats." one of the most popular
DHS and the FBI are also apps for teens and young
working with state and adults, white supremacists
local agencies to raise amplify each other's con-
awareness about the in- tent daily and point their
creased threat around the followers to new accounts.
U.S. in the coming months. In recent weeks, a cluster of
The heightened concern those accounts has turned
comes just weeks after a its sights on Pride Month,
white 18-year-old entered with some calling for gay
a supermarket in Buffalo, marriage to be "re-crimi-
New York, with the goal nalized" and others using
of killing as many Black the #Pride or rainbow flag
patrons as possible. He emoji to post homopho-
gunned down 10. bic memes.Law enforce-
That shooter claims to ment agencies are already
have been introduced monitoring an active threat
to neo-Nazi websites and from a young Arizona man
a livestream of the 2019 who says on his Telegram
Christchurch, New Zea- accounts that he is "lead-
land, mosque shootings The bulletin issued by the Department of Homeland Security, outlining the current terrorism threat ing the war" against retail
on the anonymous, online to the United States, is photographed Thursday, June 9, 2022. giant Target for its Pride
messaging board 4Chan. Associated Press Month merchandise and
In 2018, the white man children's clothing line and
who gunned down 11 at to cheer on the leaked Su- individuals policy for Meta, The account, which had has promised to "hunt LGBT
a Pittsburgh synagogue preme Court draft opinion said in a statement. more than 4,000 follow- supporters" at the stores. In
shared his antisemitic rants on Roe v. Wade, accord- A closer look reveals hun- ers, was immediately re- videos posted to his Tele-
on Gab, a site that attracts ing to an analysis by Zignal dreds of posts steeped in moved Tuesday, after the gram and YouTube ac-
extremists. The year before, Labs, a social media intelli- sexist, antisemitic, racist AP asked Meta about it. counts, sometimes filmed
a 21-year-old white man gence firm. and homophobic content. Meta has banned posts at Target stores, he encour-
who killed 23 people at a Facebook and Instagram In one Instagram post iden- that deny the Holocaust on ages others to go to the
Walmart in the largely His- owner Meta banned praise tified by The Associated its platform since 2020. stores as well.
panic city of El Paso, Texas, and support for white na- Press, an account called U.S. extremists are mimick- Target said in a statement
shared his anti-immigrant tionalist and separatists White Primacy appeared to ing the social media strat- that it is working with local
hate on the messaging movements in 2019 on post a photo of a billboard egy used by the Islamic and national law enforce-
board 8Chan. References company platforms, but that describes a common State group, which turned ment agencies who are in-
to hate-filled ideologies are the social media shift to way Jewish people were to subtle language and vestigating the videos.
more elusive across main- subtlety makes it difficult to exterminated during the images across Telegram, As society becomes more
stream platforms like Twit- moderate the posts. Meta Holocaust. Facebook and YouTube a accepting of LGBTQ rights,
ter, Instagram, TikTok and says it has more than 350 "We're just 75 years since decade ago to evade the the issue may be especially
Telegram. To avoid detec- experts, with backgrounds the gas chambers. So no, a industry-wide crackdown triggering for young men
tion from artificial intelli- from national security to billboard calling out bigotry of the terrorist group's on- who have held traditional
gence-powered modera- radicalization research, against Jews isn't an over- line presence, said Mia beliefs around relationships
tion, users don't use obvious dedicated to ridding the reaction," the pictured bill- Bloom, a communications and marriage, Bloom said.
terms like "white genocide" site of such hateful speech. board said. professor at Georgia State "That might explain the vul-
or "white power" in conver- "We know these groups are The caption of the post, University. nerability to radical belief
sation. They signal their be- determined to find new however, denied gas "They're trying to recruit," systems: A lot of the beliefs
liefs in other ways: a Chris- ways to try to evade our chambers were used at all. said Bloom, who has re- that they grew up with,
tian cross emoji in their pro- policies, and that's why we The post's comments were searched social media use that they held rather firm-
file or words like "anglo" or invest in people and tech- even worse: "If what they for both Islamic State terror- ly, are being shaken," she
"pilled," a term embraced nology and work with out- said really happened, we'd ists and far-right extremists. said. "That's where it be-
by far-right chatrooms, in side experts to constantly be in such a better place," "We're starting to see some comes an opportunity for
usernames. Most recently, update and improve our one user commented. of the same patterns with these groups: They're lash-
some of these accounts enforcement efforts," David "We're going to finish what ISIS and the far-right. The ing out and they're pick-
have borrowed the pop Tessler, the head of dan- they started someday," an- coded speech, the ways to ing on things that are very
song "White Boy Summer" gerous organizations and other wrote. evade AI. The groups were different."q

Native American youth to be tapped

for conservation projects

Associated Press projects on tribal and pub- wildfire threats and restore
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) lic land. forests to preserving historic
— U.S. Interior Secretary The Indian Youth Service sites, helping with archaeo-
Deb Haaland on Friday Corps is the latest addition logical research and build-
rolled out guidelines for a to the Biden administra- ing trails.
new youth service program tion's plans for building a The U.S. Forest Service is in-
meant to create job op- 21st century version of the vesting up to $5 million as
portunities for Native Amer- New Deal-era Civilian Con- part of its partnership with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a Senate Energy
icans while boosting their servation Corps. The mission the corps, and the National and Natural Resources Committee hearing on May 19, 2022, on
cultural connections to na- includes everything from Park Foundation is commit- Capitol Hill in Washington.
ture through conservation clearing brush to reduce ting $1 million.q Associated Press