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.
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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.
Election Day 2017 brought historic wins for minority candidates across the country: Danica Roem, the first transgender member of the Virginia House of Delegates; Ravinder Bhalla, the first Sikh mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey; Andrea Jenkins, the first transgender black woman ever elected in the U.S., to the Minneapolis City Council; Wilmot Collins, a refugee from Liberia, the first black mayor of Helena, Montana; and many more.
Anti-LGBT hate groups stand by Roy Moore; U.S. silent as Egypt mulls anti-LGBT law; supermarket ad sparks an Islamophobic backlash; and more.
Kelly lobbied to have Hondurans deported; Why the alt-right is obsessed with pedophilia; Transgender politicians celebrate victory over hate; and more.
A terrorist kills eight people in a vehicle ramming attack in New York City on Halloween.
Kris Kobach appears to be associating with white nationalists again.
Economic official decries Trump’s defense of bigots; LGBT candidates win big nationwide; Fox hires Gorka as ‘analyst’ for network; and more.
President Trump may nominate Penny Nance, president of long-time anti-feminist, anti-choice, and anti-LGBT group Concerned Women for America (CWA) for Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues.
Pizza delivery behemoth Papa John’s — the official pizza of the National Football League — is scrambling after neo-Nazi white supremacist Andrew Anglin proclaimed it the “Official Pizza of the Aryan Master Race” on his embattled Daily Stormer website on November 3.
On Tuesday, Alex Linder, a former member of the National Alliance and proprietor of Vanguard News Network (VNN) — a web forum that considers Stormfront too tame — called on “self-chosen undergrounders who kill our enemy” to focus on the “softest targets … among tyrannical antiWhites.”
Conspiracy theories spread about shooter; Bundy legal team stocked with extremists; NBC normalizes ‘Proud Boys’ in segment; and more.
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