Patrick Casey, the president of major white nationalist organization American Identity Movement (AIM), has repeatedly created and used accounts to get around his ban from Twitter.
The American Identity Movement, previously called Identity Evropa, has been described by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as “one of the largest groups within the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement.” Last year, the site Unicorn Riot released thousands of messages that members of the organization posted on the platform Discord, which featured anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, racism, and homophobia. AIM also helped organize the Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally in 2017, and according to ADL, Casey himself participated in the rally.
Last August, Casey was banned from Twitter. Since then, he has made multiple attempts to get around the suspension, which is a violation of Twitter rules. A review by Media Matters has found these accounts Casey has used to get around the Twitter ban (we’ll continue to update the list as Casey continues to evade the ban):
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@OPTlCS__CHECK, an account Casey linked to on his page for his podcast on SoundCloud (where it has since been banned for violating that platform’s rules). The account was suspended in November.
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@Groyper_General, which was suspended later in November.
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@ML__Fan, which was suspended in December.
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@CEO_Movement, which was suspended in January.
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@online_ceo_man, which was suspended on April 24. The account used an image of Casey as its profile picture, and had tweeted a link to Casey’s Telegram account, adding, “Telegram is the most reliable place to keep up with me. Join my channel for updates here.” The account had also tweeted a link to Casey’s TikTok account, asking people to “follow my TikTok,” and to a livestream of Casey on the site DLive, writing, “I’m going to stream Trump’s press conference.” The account also promoted Casey’s podcast, writing that in the latest episode, “I take a look at the so-called ‘anti-woke’ left.”
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@offlineceoman, which was suspended on May 26. The account was created in March but started tweeting toward the end of May, and it also used an image of Casey as its profile picture. When a reporter noted on Twitter that it was likely an account run by Casey, the account angrily tweeted, “Maybe instead of writing about people making Twitter accounts you could investigate something a little more newsworthy.” Though the user described their account as a “parody,” they tweeted that “this account won’t last,” urging people to “keep up with me on Telegram” and linking to Casey’s Telegram account.
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@AT4V1SM, which was suspended on July 31. The account, which had apparently started tweeting the day after Casey’s previous ban-evasion account was banned, had live-streamed an event featuring far-right figure Jacob Wohl; a photo taken at the event appeared to show Casey was the person shooting the footage.