


“The fact that a guy in California would know about Duncan Lemp, and talking about his being a martyr is just evidence of the way these guys are all online,” she said.

“I certainly feel he’s following a path that other dangerous people have followed,” she said. Most of these guys just sit behind their keyboard.”īut Hart’s behavior is still “concerning,” she said. … But he went to the store, … he took an action. … I’ve seen a thousand guys like this guy. “I heard nothing new,” she said in a phone interview. (Honk Honkler is a euphemism for Heil Hitler.) He sells Honk Honkler shirts and even face masks via iterations of his 3-year-old website. Squire reviewed screen shots of Hart’s original Dusty Shekel page on Facebook (since removed) and posts or memes under names such as Ubeartron, Slayercortex and Reichard Nixon on sites like Gab - a Twitter with looser rules - and. With a doctorate in computer science, she explores the Dark Web.

At North Carolina’s Elon University, Professor Megan Squire is an expert on extremism.
