An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple controversial businesses formerly run by owner Seth Dillon, along with the identities of 14 pseudonymous Not the Bee writers, despite the website’s efforts to keep information secure.
One year after Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C., the hard-right, anti-democracy faction of the Republican base that led the attack threatens to overtake the party for the long term.
Former Newsmax host and longtime conservative pundit Michelle Malkin spoke alongside a former Klan lawyer and several prominent white nationalist propagandists at a three-day conference in Tennessee in mid-November, Hatewatch has learned.
A highly influential, “nonpartisan” group of lawmakers and corporate lobbyists focused on advancing free market principles also furthers efforts to push companies to eschew diversity and maintain ties with anti-LGBTQ hate groups, an investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch found.
The United States’ troop withdrawal from Afghanistan has sparked virulent anti-refugee rhetoric among the far right, especially those in the organized anti-Muslim movement.
Hours after Christchurch terrorist Brenton Tarrant livestreamed the murder of 51 Muslim worshippers, Infowars information technology director Michael Zimmermann bought the domain “tarrantmanifesto.com,” leaked data from the company Epik shows.
Days after far-right figures issued a call to support a white nationalist charged with orchestrating a voter misinformation campaign, someone donated nearly $60,000 in Bitcoin to his defense, Hatewatch found.
Russia Insider founder Charles Bausman traveled from his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, and video appears to show him among the insurrectionists that breached the building's walls. Soon after, he left the country for Moscow.
Twitter gave far-right extremists the platform they needed to plan an attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, and the website, if it maintains its current approach, will likely enable politically motivated violence again in the future.
Donors gave the prominent white nationalist hate group VDARE $4.3 million in 2019, over eight times more than the year before, according to tax records the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) obtained and shared with Hatewatch.
White supremacists, far-right extremists and other reactionaries set the tone early during the trial of Derek Chauvin by repeatedly intimating that the former Minneapolis police officer committed no offense while brutally kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a Black man.
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