Possible new Breivik Twitter account and article identified
Posted on July 7, 2011Further to my post yesterday, Anders Breivik’s crimes have another relatively new feature – the way he interacted with the internet and social media first to propagandise for his views and then as part of the way to spread his message of terror.
Following the initial publication of his manifesto, the media (and presumably the police) have been quick to start tracking his history through his online presence. The Standard today reports new evidence of his interaction with the EDL through online forums, and it seems the trail is yet to be followed all the way.
Now that the EDL postings have revealed his online pseudonym as Sigurd Jorsalfare (after a crusading Viking king), it’s possible to follow his tracks even further. I’ve been hunting around to see whether he used it elsewhere and it seems that he may have. For example, no one seems to have so far drawn attention to this Twitter account under the same pseudonym (with the same variation of the spelling of Jorsalfare), or this article which it publicises – a piece posted only a couple of weeks ago on a site which Breivik used regularly which from its tone and topic may well be another of Breivik’s own tracts.
The impression that this is the first time these have been noticed is further reinforced by the fact that at the time of writing the Twitter account is still being followed by a Progress Party councillor, who presumably would have distanced himself had it come to his attention.
Tags: Anders Behring Breivik, Crime, EDL, Evening Standard, Fascism, Norway, Racism, Sigurd Jorsalfare, Twitter
I can assure you that the article on Document.no isn’t written by anders. Breivik has never written for the site (he has only posted comments on various articles) and pretty much every article on the site has the ‘same tone and topic’ as Brevik’s comments, at least to some degree, so that won’t get you far. The author with the psuedonym ‘Rubb’ also lives in a different part of the country (he has reported in detail about the neighborhood he lives in).
26.07.2011 18:39