Canadian company helping white supremacists fundraise from hateful livestreams

WARNING: The following story contains mature subject matter, including racist and hateful imagery.

It boasts that it’s a "safe haven for monetization." 

But a quick scroll through the website created by three tech-savvy Canadians reveals not everyone is welcome on the platform.

An investigation by the fifth estate has found the website known as Entropy, which launched in Calgary, is in fact a safe haven for white supremacists and other extremists seeking to monetize the hateful content they livestream to online audiences.

Within two years after it launched in 2019, Entropy processed more than $3 million in transactions and experts say it has since grown to become an essential service for dozens of neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

Many creators have found a home on the Canadian platform after being kicked off and blocked from making money on mainstream platforms such as YouTube for posting antisemitic and racist content that violates the streaming giant’s terms of service. 

Jeff Tischauser, an analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a U.S-based civil rights non-profit organization, is responsible for monitoring 160 of the hundreds of hate groups across the U.S. and says about half of them use Entropy to fundraise and solicit donations.

"They're making money off of intimidating people. They're making money off trying to provoke and harass people," said Tischauser. "They've travelled abroad to bring their hatred to Holocaust sites. They're able to do that because of the money that they are making off Entropy."

Journalists at the fifth estate have discovered one of the groups he monitors, the Goyim Defense League, was able to collect online donations during the group’s 2024 visit to Nashville, Tenn., because of Entropy. During that visit, a member of the group assaulted a Jewish man and a biracial man.

Six months later, one of GDL’s flyers was found inside the manifesto of a school shooter who was radicalized online before committing a deadly attack. 

More than a year after those incidents, members of GDL continue to make money from their hateful content through Entropy. 

The fifth estate has also learned that the three Canadians behind Entropy — Emmanuel and Rachel Constantinidis and David Bell — have been in Tbilisi, Georgia, since 2022, while maintaining a registered corporation in Alberta.

Dozens of Entropy users feature swastikas and other Nazi symbology in their usernames and profile pictures, including the numbers 88, a white supremacist numerical code for Heil Hitler, and 14, a reference to a white supremacist slogan known as the "14 Words."

Many of those livestreams are overrun with offensive and derogatory comments ranging from misogynistic slurs to uncensored use of the N-word.