‘Nazi-Satanism’ is real, it’s dangerous – and big tech is fuelling it

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. This is not your parents’ “right-hand path” Ouija boards and harmless spells – and as was made clear in an exposé by the BBC’s Daniel de Simone, in fact, it was instrumental in last year’s truly horrific murder of sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman. Texts like these were required reading for Atomwaffen Division members and other left-hand path neo-Nazis – in part, as one UK teenage convict put it, to “shed empathy”. One of these, Apex of Eternity, written under Koetting’s pseudonym Archaelus Baron, explicitly recommends studying The Terrorist Handbook for tips like “explosive detonators”. If even 1 in 1,000 subscribers to Koetting’s take seriously his invitation to ritual murder, terrorism and other “sinister acts”, that’s nearly 100 Danyal Husseins running amok.