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.
The white nationalist movement has been embroiled in a war over optics since last year’s Unite the Rally in Charlottesville, and Richard Spencer’s disastrous event at Michigan State University last weekend only increased tensions between those dedicated to street action and others who worry that high-profile confrontations will damage the movement’s image.
In the early hours of February 23, an unidentified man walked by a popular trans bar in Las Vegas and fired through the windows, injuring one. As of late last week, police have not determined a suspect or a motive.
The following is a list of activities and events of anti-immigrant organizations. Organizations listed as anti-immigrant hate groups are designated with an asterisk.
On Thursday March 15, 2018 the House chamber of New Hampshire state legislature will vote on a non-binding resolution urging the federal government to pardon Gerald “Jerry” DeLemus, a so-called “Patriot” anti-government extremist who participated in the armed standoff at the Bundy Ranch in 2014.
Bigoted campaigns fuel anti-Muslim hate; Far right floats Austin bombing theories; How Facebook enables racist news pollution; and more.
A year after launching a barnstorming tour of the nation’s colleges, delivering at each stop controversial speeches designed as much to trigger protests from an increasingly energetic antifascist movement as they were to introduce racist ideas to America’s youth, Richard Spencer is hanging it up.
On February 28, the American Freedom Law Center, a Michigan-based anti-Muslim hate group, announced it would be filing an amicus curiae (also called “friend of the court) legal brief in support of President Donald J. Trump’s “extreme vetting” policy to screen incoming refugees for possible terrorist ties.
Like Facebook, Google and Twitter, Wikipedia has become a fixture of online life.
YouTube plays a key role in radicalization; Putin points to Jews as source of hacks; Coulter’s trolling reels in alt-right admirers; and more.
From the outside, it might look like an ordinary red-state gathering of Donald Trump superfans.
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