A cyber intelligence expert is urging parents to monitor their children’s online activity after Sunshine Coast high school student featured on a social media page spouting white supremacist propaganda. Former FBI special agent Dennis Desmond – now a University of the Sunshine Coast cybercrime investigations lecturer – said hate groups tended to try and recruit young people by veiling their true intentions. (…) Dr Desmond said the posts scattered in between the juvenile content were far more concerning. “It is not uncommon for these groups to use what are seemingly innocuous memes which have undertones of anti-LGBTQ, anti-minority and white supremacy,” he said. “This is what they’re using to send their messages.” The posts feature anti-government, anti-trans, pro-Hitler, separatism and other white extremist group propaganda. A recent post urged people to join its “local club” and listed an encrypted email address difficult for authorities to trace
via abc: Sunshine Coast school students featured on Instagram page promoting white supremacy