In June 2026, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) released a report detailing the rapid growth online of the white nationalist Identitarian movement and their calls for “remigration,” a euphemism for the ethnic cleansing of all non-white people from Europe. In response, TikTok deplatformed 21 of 82 accounts; 13 out of 201 Instagram accounts became inaccessible; and three of 29 YouTube accounts disappeared. It is unclear why some accounts were pulled while other spouting the same racist ideas remain active. What is clear is that as remigration continues to permeate the mainstream, including being embraced by far-right politicians including Donald Trump and Alternative fur Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD) leader Alice Weidel, social media companies are clearly refusing to enforce their own terms of service banning hateful content.
Remigration is rooted in the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which falsely purports that white people are being intentionally “replaced” in western countries by people of color. White nationalist Identitarians blame globalists and sometimes Jews for the replacement, and propose remigration as its policy solution. Believers in this conspiracy have committed several acts of targeted mass violence against marginalized communities, most recently at the Islamic Center in San Diego, California, where three people were killed by neo-Nazis in May. The perpetrators cited the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory and the Christchurch shooting as primary motivators behind the attack (read GPAHE’s full analysis of the San Diego attackers’ manifesto here). There have been at least 14 attacks motivated by these racist beliefs since 2017. The Christchurch, N.Z., shooter, who murdered 51 Muslims in 2017, donated money to the Austrian chapter of the white nationalist pan-European Generation Identity movement and exchanged emails with its leader at the time, Martin Sellner.
On TikTok, GPAHE identified 16 accounts belonging to chapters and members of the French Identitarian group Collectif Némésis (Nemesis Collective), 14 accounts run by Generation Identity (GI) chapters and members (GI was dissolved by the French government in 2021 due to their connections to violence and incitement to hatred), and five by the neo-Nazi youth group Junge Tat (Youth Action), based out of Switzerland. Following GPAHE reporting, under their policy prohibiting designated/terrorist organizations, criminal and violent behaviour, hate speech & hateful ideologies, TikTok deplatformed 21 Identitarian accounts including Aktion 451, an Identitarian front organization founded in Austria, Identitäre Bewegung Deutschland (Identitarian Movement Germany, IBD) spokesperson Maximilian Märkl, Identitarian media outlet Deutschland Kurier (Germany Courier), and several Identitarian influencers from across Europe. Numerous Identitarian groups and individuals remain on TikTok, such as IB Berlin, which posts footage of their remigration activism, and IB Niedersachsen.
Both IB Berlin and IB Niedersachsen remain on TikTok, despite Generation Identity’s connections to violence and classification as right-wing extremist by the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution. (Source: TikTok).
On YouTube, only three of 29 Identitarian accounts identified by GPAHE in our June 2026 report are no longer accessible. One of these accounts was dedicated to the Remigration Summit, an annual Identitarian conference connecting far-right influencers and politicians to make remigration into a legitimate policy proposal. However, Identitarian accounts such as “Lederhosenrevolte,” which is a front for Identitäre Bewegung Bayern, the American-based White Papers Policy Institute (WPPI), and Collectif Némésis all remain on the platform. YouTube’s own hate speech policy prohibits content that “promotes violence or hatred against individuals or groups” yet the site continues to platform these accounts with direct connections to Generation Identity.
Lederhosenrevolte, described on their Telegram channel as “Identitäre Bewegung Bayern,” are still active on YouTube, weeks after GPAHE’s report. (Source: YouTube, Telegram).
Despite identifying 201 Identitarian accounts on Instagram, GPAHE has found only thirteen (six percent) of them no longer accessible. Among these are some smaller Identitarian groups and GI chapters, GI Germany spokesperson Maximilian Märkl, and a page called “Generation Germany,” which frequently shared content advertising Identitäre Bewegung Deutschland’s activities and members. Content featuring Martin Sellner, the de-facto leader of the Identitarian movement, remains on Instagram along with Generation Identity Denmark, IB Sachsen, IB Saarland, and others.
Generation Identity chapters in Denmark and Germany remain active on Instagram, where they advertise white nationalist events and call for remigration. (Source: Instagram).
The deplatforming of some Identitarian accounts is a positive step in curtailing the virality of ethnic cleansing calls such as remigration, but it is not enough. It is clear that social media companies are not uniformly enforcing their terms of service, thus allowing for the spread of white supremacist ideas directly connected to terrorism.
Identitarian accounts were submitted to TikTok with the help of the Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM), and it’s co-founder and spokesman Panayote Dimitras. GHM is a non-governmental organization, founded in 1993, which monitors, publishes, lobbies, and litigates on human and minority rights and anti-discrimination issues in Greece and the Balkans. Dimitras has been a member of the Global Alliance Against Digital Hate and Extremism (GAADHE) steering committee since 2023, with GHM also involved with several other human rights networks. Aid provided to GPAHE by transnational allies, including GHM in Europe, is invaluable to our work holding tech platforms accountable and further curtailing the spread of far-right extremism online and in the real world.
