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.
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.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson brought his 12-state, cross-country road show to the presidential battleground of Pennsylvania late last month, providing a platform for the disgraced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and other luminaries of the far right to promote their campaign of lies and disinformation about an America under siege by immigrants and a shadowy cabal of “globalists.”
Four years after purchasing a castle in rural West Virginia intended as their headquarters, the white nationalist outlet VDARE has said that an investigation by New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James has “crucified” the site and left it “on life support.”
Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caught our attention through March 1.
More than 18 million people have viewed Carlson’s post on X, with the company’s owner Elon Musk reposting the video. X under Musk has given a platform to certain far-right and fringe figures previously suspended on the site.
Just three days after Elon Musk reinstated Alex Jones on X, his reboot of Twitter, the bigot and conspiracy propagandist has gained over 800,000 followers.
The Donald Trump campaign team sent out mailers in early April suggesting that “George Soros is trying to single-handedly purchase the American justice system so that he can weaponize it to crush ALL of his opposition.”
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