Filed Nov 8, 2026.
Record no. HR-0016
Logged: Nov 8, 2026
Platform and place: public Facebook post by Scotte Scottewolf Spaulding in the group Republicans of the Great State of Arizona
What: a Meta AI-generated graphic declaring the next civil war will be Americans against "Socialist Democrats and Islam," posted after the Nov 3 election, with comments about being armed and calling Islam "of Satan"
Status: post and comments live at capture
Names: Spaulding wrote the post, so he is named; the commenters are private individuals and are not
Two days after Arizona voters gave Gov. Katie Hobbs a second term over Rep. Andy Biggs, a Facebook group called Republicans of the Great State of Arizona lit up with a graphic declaring that the next civil war won't be North versus South. It will be, the image says, Americans versus "Socialist Democrats and Islam."
By Sunday it had 1,400 likes, 558 comments and 212 shares.
The man who posted it, Scotte Scottewolf Spaulding, is not from Arizona. His Facebook profile places him in Massachusetts. The group lists him as a member since November 5, 2026, the day the post appears to have gone up. He arrived, posted, and the group did the rest.
The art came from Meta
The bottom right corner of the image carries a Meta AI watermark. The graphic naming a religion as one side of a coming war was generated by Meta's own image tool and distributed on Meta's own platform.
Meta's internal standards for its AI, as reported by Reuters, prohibit Meta AI from producing hate speech. The watermark worked. The filter apparently did not.
Spaulding's profile is set up as a "Digital creator" account with about 1,400 followers, the profile type Meta uses for its creator tools. The Hate Record has not established whether the account earns money from Meta.
What the group did with it
The most popular reply under the post, with 75 likes, came from a self-described retired soldier: "Im retired army armed and ready for battle."
"I'm going to get a gun." A reply told her she had better hurry.
A commenter predicted the coming war would be between Jesus and Satan. Spaulding put his author's like on it.
"Islam is of Satan." 21 likes.
The election, another wrote, meant Democrats had "surrendered our nation to the invaders" from the southern hemisphere and the Middle East. 23 likes.
A long reply typed in capital letters called Marxism America's deadliest enemy.
None of it names a target, a place or a date. It is not a threat a police department can act on. It is something harder to measure: a few hundred Arizonans rehearsing a war against their Muslim neighbors, under an image a machine drew and a stranger from another state dropped in.
Whose name is on the door
The group borrows the party's identity, but The Hate Record found nothing tying it to the Arizona Republican Party, the official state party. When leaked chats from Arizona Young Republicans surfaced in 2025, the state party publicly condemned their "hateful rhetoric." Whether it has anything to say about a group trading on its name is a question we are putting to it.
Why it matters
Arizona's Muslim community is not a hypothetical. Neither are the people in that thread who say they are armed. The post asked them to see the two as enemies, and roughly 1,400 of them clicked like.
The man who started it doesn't vote here.
We want to understand the hate, not hand anyone a target. That is why the commenters are not named here. The post, and what its author chose to like, are his.
Method and disclosure: drawn from the public post in Republicans of the Great State of Arizona, its visible comments and Spaulding's public Facebook profile, captured Nov. 8, 2026 at about 4:37 p.m. Arizona time; engagement counts are as of capture and will change, and the post's date is inferred from Facebook's relative time. We identified the image's origin from the Meta AI watermark on the image itself and have not confirmed how it was prompted. We have not reviewed every comment or Spaulding's activity in other groups. Commenters quoted are private individuals and are not named. Spaulding, the group's administrators, the Arizona Republican Party and Meta are welcome to respond at [email protected], and any response will be added here. The Hate Record is the reporting arm of ANIA, a privately held, independent intelligence firm, not a government agency. The publisher, Pesach Lattin, is an Orthodox Jew, lives in Phoenix and has no financial relationship with any campaign or party in Arizona. Corrections and tips: [email protected] or 505 932 9060.