White supremacist jailed over online race-hate messages

A 24-YEAR-OLD white supremacist with a big social media following has been jailed for 20 months over a torrent of racial hatred.

- CONOR GOGARTY

But the platform where he spread his bile, X, has allowed the posts to remain online for well over a year - finding no policy violation in posts glorifying the Nazi gas chambers and depicting black people as monkeys.

David Morgan, from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has 127,800 followers on an X (formerly Twitter) account titled with a Welsh flag and the words “David Morgan #StayFree”.

His second account, New Right Rising, has 5,800 followers. Millions of people viewed his disturbing posts and some attracted tens of thousands of likes.

Morgan pleaded guilty to publishing nine posts - known as tweets - with intent to stir up racial hatred. Those are only a small portion of his racist tweets, which can still be viewed on X despite repeated complaints, including from an MP. The court also heard that Morgan might have “monetised” his account, allowing him to profit from racist posts that got a high number of views.

The website is owned by Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, who is worth an estimated £378bn and has been accused of allowing racism to spread largely unchecked on X since his 2022 takeover.

Morgan advanced conspiracy theories that Jews are responsible for global economic instability and New York's 9/11 terrorism attack. He also blamed black people for rising crime rates and claimed white people are being “eradicated”.