Hatewatch Headlines 5/5/2017
Cloudflare helps serve up hate on the Internet; Ex-employees reveal Alex Jones’ scams; Trump’s ‘religious liberty’ order aims at LGBT folk; and more.
ProPublica: How one major Internet company, Cloudflare, helps serve up hate on the Web.
Raw Story: Ex-employees reveal how Alex Jones bilks his fans by running a ‘QVC for conspiracy’ with quack cures.
Right Wing Watch: Donald Trump hosts far-right pastors before signing executive order.
Salon: Trump’s ‘religious liberty’ executive order is meant to legalize anti-LGBT discrimination, and may be unconstitutional.
Huffington Post: DOJ official dodges questions about Trump’s role in addressing hate-crime surge.
AlterNet: Trump’s G.O.P. is now a neo-Confederate party, more Jefferson Davis than Abraham Lincoln.
Media Matters: NPR continues to uncritically host anti-LGBT hate group Alliance Defending Freedom.
Vocativ: Neo-Nazis tried to take over a small mining town in Kentucky, but it didn’t work.
New York Times: In French elections, American alt-right memes and messages don’t translate.
Spokesman-Review: WSU president launches investigation of racist video, campus Republicans call admin ‘snowflakes.’
Kansas City Star: Reporter Judy Thomas shares perspectives on covering militias and the far right.
Houston Press: Suspected Aryan Brotherhood member accused of hate crime in attempted stabbing.
Seattle Times: Facebook photo shows hate-crime suspect pointing a gun at man, woman in Rainier Valley.
