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Right-wing blogger loses complaint over newspapers’ ‘Nazi’ tag

A blogger who broadcast white nationalist videos from his dad’s house has lost his complaint to the press watchdog against two newspapers who described him as a “Nazi”.

Colin Robertson was exposed in the Scottish press after addressing a conference at which delegates were reported as giving “Nazi salutes” and shouting “Heil Trump.”

His identity was revealed by Glasgow-based dailies the Daily Record and The Herald, three years after he began broadcasting on YouTube under the name ‘Millennium Woes’ from his father’s semi-detatched home in the town of Linlithgow.

In a front page story, the Record described Mr Robertson’s  as a “hate filled Scots racist” who preached “Nazi vitriol from his bedroom.”

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Meanwhile a story in The Herald reported Mr Robertson had told his viewers that “violence, by which I mean civil war, is inevitable between us native Europeans and the various immigrant groups.”

Mr Robertson complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation about the two papers’ coverage – claiming both had breached Clause 1 (Accuracy), Clause 2 (Privacy) and Clause 3 (Harassment) of the Editors’ Code of Practice.

He said it was inaccurate to describe him as a “racist” and a “neo-Nazi”, and said he had found it distressing when a journalist had visited his home to seek comment.

In response, The Herald provided a link for IPSO to a video in which the complainant had said: “For your people’s sake be racist.”

The Record provided links to several videos in which Robertson had expressed sentiments backing up the terms it had used about him.

IPSO did not uphold either complaint, and the full adjudications can be read here and here.