The Daily Stormer
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Type of site
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News and commentary |
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| Available in | English |
| Editor | Andrew Anglin |
| Slogan(s) | First in Facts - First in Integrity! |
| Website | dailystormer |
| Alexa rank |
 14,991 (Global January 24, 2017) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Required to comment |
| Launched | July 4, 2013 |
| Current status | Active |
The Daily Stormer is an American neo-Nazi and white supremacist news and commentary website. It is part of the alt-right movement. Its editor is Andrew Anglin, who founded it on July 4, 2013, as a faster-paced replacement for his previous website Total Fascism.
The site is known for its use of Internet memes, which have been likened to the imageboard 4chan and cited as attractions for a younger and more ideologically diverse audience. Guest writers have included black hat hacker weev and 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan. While some white nationalist authors have praised The Daily Stormer's reach, others have taken issue with its content and tone, accusing Anglin of being an agent provocateur, used to discredit true white nationalism.
The Daily Stormer orchestrates what it calls the "Troll Army", which is involved in Internet trolling of figures with whom Anglin disagrees politically.
The Daily Stormer takes its name from the Nazi Party's tabloid newspaper Der Stürmer, known in retrospect for its virulently antisemitic caricatures of Jews. Its publisher, Julius Streicher, was executed after the war for crimes against humanity.
Anglin told media and technology company Vocativ that he was liberal as a youth, and as a teenager he read works by Noam Chomsky and "all that Communist, Jewish stuff". He later studied Buddhism, Islam and 20th-century French philosophy before aligning himself with Neo-Nazism. In 2014, he stated that although he agreed with the central tenets of Nazism, he had reservations over reintroducing all aspects of Adolf Hitler's regime.
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