Neo-Nazi publisher ordered to turn over personal information

Source: Associated Press

By MATT VOLZ
an hour ago

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A judge has ordered the publisher of a neo-Nazi website to reveal his net worth and identify any phone numbers, email addresses, social media accounts and technology he used when he called for his readers to unleash a “troll storm” on a Montana woman.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch on Friday ordered The Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin to comply with most of the requests in a lawsuit by Tanya Gersh. She accuses Anglin of invasion of privacy and inflicting emotional distress on her and her family after they received hundreds of harassing and anti-Semitic messages starting in late 2016.

Anglin had accused Gersh, a real estate agent in the Montana resort town of Whitefish, of seeking to force the mother of white nationalist Richard Spencer to leave town in 2016 by trying to persuade her to sell her commercial property.

Anglin, who denies he’s liable for his followers’ actions, objected and called Gersh’s requests irrelevant, particularly when it came to revealing his personal information. His attorney said in a legal filing that Anglin didn’t want that information to get to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal advocacy organization that tracks hate groups and represents Gersh.

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