Hatewatch Headlines 8/22/18
Another Trump White House official associated with a white nationalist; Klan leader gets prison for firing a gun at Unite the Right rally; anti-Muslim blogger Robert Spencer booted from fund-raising site, and more.
Washington Post: White nationalist Peter Brimelow was hosted last weekend at the home of President Trump's chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow.
Reuters: An imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan will serve four years in Virginia prison for firing a pistol during last summer’s deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
Splinter News: Arizona Senate candidate Dr. Kelli Ward fails to offer a reasonable explanation why she campaigned with pizzagate conspiracy supporter Mike Cernovich.
CNN: Europe is preparing legislation designed to rid social media platforms of terrorist content.
Daily Beast: Far-right, anti-Muslim blogger Robert Spencer is kicked off the fund-raising site Patreon at the request of Mastercard.
WSB-TV: A federal judge will allow attorneys to question a neo-Nazi website publisher's father and accountant in connection with a libel suit against the Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin.
Right Wing Watch: Lana Lokteff, co-host of the web-based white nationalist radio station Red Ice, encourages listeners to embrace so-called “ethno-nationalism.”
Salon: How broad is support for white nationalism? Unite the Right II didn’t spell out the whole story.
HuffPost: The American Civil Liberties Union cautions progressives calling on social media platforms to ban Infowars conspiracy host Alex Jones.
Medium: A new survey says almost 80 percent of Americans believe internet companies should be subject to the same rules and regulations as newspapers and television networks that are responsible for content they publish.
