From Hope not Hate
A Hope not Hate investigator goes undercover inside the race science movement and finds that the notorious Pioneer Fund has relaunched under a new name thanks to backing from a super-rich American tech entrepreneur.
The Scandza Forum is one of the most important events in the far-right calendar. Hosted by Fróði Midjord, a Scandinavian neo-Nazi, it is a conference of extremist intellectuals who gather for lectures on white nationalism, race science, and World War II revisionism. In May 2023, the Scandza Forum was held for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic at the Von Stackelberg Hotel in Tallinn, Estonia, attracting more than 100 far-right activists from across the western world.
Among the guests was an undercover reporter for Hope not Hate.
At the conference, our infiltrator met a man who introduced himself as Matthew Archer, although we now know his real name is Matthew Frost. Frost said he was the founder of Aporia, a website running stories on “HBD”, or human biodiversity. This is the belief that there are meaningful and measurable differences between different “races”, especially in terms of intelligence. It is, in essence, the misuse of science to promote racist ideology.
Frost claimed Aporia was being read by important people in Westminster, Washington D.C., and Silicon Valley. An anonymous American tech tycoon, our undercover reporter was told, had even invested a large chunk of money in the project.
Advocates of eugenics are often stereotyped as old, conspiratorial cranks whose papers are confined to obscure publications with dwindling audiences. Aporia, however, is younger, slicker, and much more popular, boasting 14,000 subscribers on Substack and almost 10,000 followers on X/Twitter.
After the Tallinn conference, HOPE not hate set out to understand the wider ecosystem in which Aporia operates. Over six months, our reporter posed as a wealthy investor looking to give Aporia a six-figure cash injection. Excited by the prospect, Matthew Frost and his colleagues revealed their inner secrets in business meetings, dinners, video calls, WhatsApp conversations, voice notes, and internal company documents.
We discovered
The Pioneer Fund, a Nazi-affiliated eugenics organisation —thought to be essentially defunct — has rebranded as the Human Diversity Foundation (HDF)
Aporia is part of the HDF’s organisation, as is a scientific racism research team
Andrew Conru, the multimillionaire entrepreneur who created Adult Friend Finder, has given $1.3 million to HDF. After being contacted prior to this report’s publication, he said he would cut ties with the company
HDF has connections to Alternative für Deutschland, the far-right German party, and hopes to create a white-only ethnostate
HDF is working to create a cult of weapons-trained activists inspired by Scientology and the Nazi SS
Patrik Hermansson and Harry Shukman are researchers at Hope Not Hate.
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