David Morgan of Aberdare, south Wales, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty to publishing nine racist posts intended to stir up racial hatred.
24-year-old Morgan amassed a significant following on X (formerly Twitter) where his main account attracted more than 127,000 followers.
A secondary account, New Right Rising, drew nearly 6,000 followers. His content was not fringe obscurity: millions of people viewed his posts, with some receiving tens of thousands of likes.
Glorified gas chambers
The court heard that Morgan’s activity went far beyond casual bigotry. He glorified the Nazi gas chambers, depicted Black people as monkeys, and advanced conspiracy theories blaming Jews for global economic instability and even the 9/11 attacks.
His posts included grotesque imagery:
- A hazmat-suited figure with a Nazi armband spraying gas at a caricature of a Jewish man
- A black man in prison visited by a child portrayed as a baby monkey
- Banknotes moving towards an oven captioned “Only antisemites understand this photo”
- A man urinating on a menorah
- A train track leading into a gas chamber
- A monopoly board implying all Black people should be imprisoned
- Anne Frank depicted saying “Gas me outside”
These were not isolated incidents but part of a sustained campaign of racial hatred.
Guilty pleas
Morgan pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court to nine counts of publishing material with intent to stir up racial hatred.
Though these nine posts were only a fraction of his output, they were deemed sufficiently egregious to warrant prosecution and the judge sentenced him to 20 months in prison.
The case also revealed that Morgan monetised his account, profiting from the reach of his racist content.
Perhaps most troubling is the role of X itself. Despite repeated complaints – including from MPs – Morgan’s posts remained online for over a year.
‘No policy violation’
The platform found “no policy violation” in content glorifying genocide and racial violence, again raising serious questions about the responsibilities of tech companies in moderating extremist content.
And Elon Musk’s ownership of X again stands accused of allowing extreme far-right politics, racism and conspiracy theories to spread unchecked.
