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.
Kessler’s anniversary plans fold up in court; Infowars host friendly to white nationalists; Twitter freaks out the far right with its filters; and more.
Harold Covington, the founder of a white separatist group who once claimed that Dylann Roof’s massacre of nine people in South Carolina was “a preview of coming attractions,” has died. He was 64.
As the first anniversary of Unite the Right approached, Charlottesville festers with high tensions and uncertainty as to what might happen on August 11 and 12.
First, the question was “Where’s Jason Kessler?”
Neo-Confederate activist Olaf O. Childress, 85, of Silverhill, Alabama, died on July 20.
Immediately after the deadly “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August 11 and 12, far-fetched conspiracy theories blossomed on the internet.
Jason Kessler, a racist white rights advocate, dropped a request for a judge to force Charlottesville, Virginia, to grant permission to hold a rally on August 11.
Vocal neo-Nazi is charged in black woman’s murder; How ideas go from Infowars to Fox; Idaho man gets 14-year sentence in Bundy standoff; and more.
Michael Meyer, the Pizzagate-style conspiracy theorist who leads the Arizona vigilante group Veterans on Patrol (VOP), came out with a warning to local law enforcement on Monday, a day after he was arrested for the second time this month.
As Russia tries to insinuate itself more and more into the fabric of the American political right wing, it may be getting an unusual ally.
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