The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is defending a video it posted on its social media feed that features imagery of federal agents arresting protesters set to a song long associated with far-right extremist movements.
The song in the video, MGMT's "Little Dark Age," was released in 2018, though it's been slowed down considerably. Gizmodo explains that while nothing in the song suggests sympathy with far-right ideology and could in fact be understood as critical of it, the song was adopted by far-right content creators in late 2020 to pair with Nazi and white supremacist imagery.
