The Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes has grown increasingly prominent on social media not because of “a broad or sudden shift in American political sentiment” but due to “online amplification that was unusually fast, unusually concentrated and unusually foreign in origin.”
That’s according to a new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute, which analyzed the first 30 minutes of shares on 20 recent posts by Fuentes and compared that data to the same time frame and number of posts by other political social media accounts with large followings.
Fuentes showed “dramatically higher early retweet velocity” than any comparator, including Elon Musk, the report found.
It added that 61% of the first-30-minute shares came from repeat early posters—behavior it calls “highly suggestive of coordination or automation.” Among those repeat accounts, 92% were anonymous.
Fuentes appeared on Piers Morgan’s show on Dec. 8 for a livestreamed, long-form interview, during which he praised Hitler.
He has more than 1.1 million followers on social media. He rejected the report that he was being amplified in suspicious ways, calling it a “matrix attack.”
