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.
Texas A&M University’s Corps of Cadets allowed a cadet to skip training to provide logistic support for the white nationalist National Policy Institute (NPI) in November 2017, according to emails Hatewatch obtained.
Romanian authorities have arrested white nationalist brawler Robert Rundo at the request of American authorities, according to several local media reports.
In an interview last week with Tony Perkins, leader of the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council (FRC), Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said he based his new emergency administrative regulation limiting access to gender-affirming healthcare on disputed accounts of a supposed whistleblower at a Missouri hospital.
Third-term Idaho state Sen. Tammy Nichols has associated publicly with several extremists in recent weeks, first posting a photo of herself at a GOP fundraising event with a white nationalist YouTuber she praised as “amazing,” and last week appearing on the show of a far-right livestreamer to promote a state House bill that would criminalize the administration of COVID-19 vaccines.
Jury selection started today in the trial of 33-year-old Douglass Mackey, a man who prolifically spread hate and politically charged disinformation under the pseudonym “Ricky Vaughn” during Donald Trump’s political rise.
The text messages from Alex Jones’ phone show how Infowars sowed hatred, fear and lies, while also selling products to its audience, some at markups as high as 900%.
A convicted sex offender manned a booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as featured speakers told the crowd it was conservatives’ duty to protect children from the threat of “transgenderism” and “sexualization.”
White nationalist Nick Fuentes booked a hotel across the street from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the National Harbor for a racist, post-CPAC conference Saturday.
Republican former Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia has joined the Family Research Council (FRC) as a senior adviser to the anti-LGBTQ hate group’s longest-serving president, Tony Perkins. FRC helped launch the religious right as an overt political movement in the 1980s and remains one of the largest anti-LGBTQ organizations in the U.S. Hice described working for the anti-LGBTQ hate group as a “personal mission.”
Sam Bushman, the CEO of the antigovernment Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), defended running white-nationalist broadcasts on his online station, Liberty News Radio (LNR), during an extended, often-meandering telephone conversation with Hatewatch on Feb. 21.
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