Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell broadcasting hate on Instagram from Victorian acreage

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ABC NEWS Verify can reveal that Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell has been uploading antisemitic and homophobic diatribes to Instagram from a property on the outskirts of Melbourne.

Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell has been posting hateful rants to Instagram from a property in Victoria. (Supplied)

Thomas Sewell has uploaded antisemitic and homophobic rants to social media platform Instagram, despite his Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network being banned by the government.

ABC NEWS Verify has geolocated the videos to a property in Victoria, owned by the former director of a logistics company.

Sewell has launched a legal challenge in the High Court against the federal government's laws which banned his group.

Neo-Nazi leader and convicted criminal Thomas Sewell is covertly broadcasting hateful views on Instagram weeks after his organisation the National Socialist Network (NSN) was formally listed as a hate group by the government.

ABC NEWS Verify can reveal that Sewell has posted antisemitic and homophobic diatribes to the platform from behind a sparkling Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo mask which the NSN has used previously in propaganda material.

Though his face is obscured, the position of a light switch, bookshelf and items on the bookshelf on Instagram match the background of another video Sewell appeared in unmasked on video streaming site Rumble in January.

Objects in a video Sewell appeared in on Rumble match those in the Instagram video. (Supplied)

Sewell established the new Instagram account in May, and to date has posted seven videos to the platform, the first on May 24.

He has launched a challenge in the High Court to overturn the government's ban on his organisation so that he can register a White Australia party with the Australian Electoral Commission.

In response to questions from ABC NEWS Verify about the Instagram videos and whether they constitute hate speech under the federal government's new laws, a spokesperson for the Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said "Our agencies are constantly monitoring for any potential breaches of our hate speech laws, the strongest such laws in Australian history".

Alex Ryvchin, the co-chief executive officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry said social media platforms were enabling extremists to recruit and target people.

"Any Jewish user could attest to the volume of accounts pumping out everything from highly curated propaganda to direct death threats," he said.

"We've never seen it at such levels and its danger and effectiveness comes from the scale and consistency of the message.

ABC NEWS Verify also contacted Instagram parent company Meta to ask if Sewell's videos violated its policy on hateful conduct.

Meta later removed the account for violating the company'

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