Funding White Supremacy

In order to fund their activities, terrorist extremists use a variety of monetization tactics such as generating ad revenue from their content, offering premium paid content to their followers, and directly requesting donations.

Here, ActiveFence investigates these tactics by drawing on sources in the dark web to show how extremist groups access revenue streams to support their operational costs through monetization and subscription platforms. The report demonstrates how financial service companies are drawn into bad actor’s organizational infrastructures through bespoke, political fundraising platforms and mobile payment services.