An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple controversial businesses formerly run by owner Seth Dillon, along with the identities of 14 pseudonymous Not the Bee writers, despite the website’s efforts to keep information secure.
This is the final piece in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are affecting the election process.
A contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025 governance plan intended to attend a white nationalist’s wedding, according to publicly accessible information the Data Lab reviewed.
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are impacting the election process.
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are impacting the election.
Extremist groups have rallied to file amicus briefs supporting sex discrimination in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court over a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care, Hatewatch has found.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson brought his 12-state, cross-country road show to the presidential battleground of Pennsylvania late last month, providing a platform for the disgraced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and other luminaries of the far right to promote their campaign of lies and disinformation about an America under siege by immigrants and a shadowy cabal of “globalists.”
The white nationalist website VDARE, which has ties to former White House aides who helped shape the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies, suspended operations earlier this year amid a slew of legal and technical challenges.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s field director, Brad Hughes, sat in on lobbying meetings between the governor, his policy staff and two political groups that Hughes is affiliated with, emails from a public records request show. Frontline Policy Action, the lobbying arm of an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group that Hughes helps lead, endorsed and funded efforts to reelect Kemp in 2022, finance records show. Hatewatch previously reported that in 2024, the group also gave $350,000 to Kemp’s Georgians First Leadership Committee.
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