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Twitter Gave Free Rein for Jack Posobiec To Publish Antisemitic Hate and Disinformation
Twitter enabled OANN correspondent Jack Posobiec’s rise by giving him space to promote hate and mislead the public without facing consequences, Hatewatch has determined in a comprehensive review of his account history.
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#JackPosobiec passed himself off as being “fmr CBS News” on @Twitter in parts of 2016 and 2017, while promoting disinformation and hate. Posobiec has never been employed by CBS or its affiliates, our investigation found.
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Jack Posobiec’s Rise Tied to White Supremacist Movement
Jack Posobiec, a correspondent for One America News Network (OANN) whose work has been embraced by President Trump, collaborated for years with white supremacists, neo-fascists and antisemites, a Hatewatch investigation has determined.
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BREAKING: Far-right @OANN host #JackPosobiec — a @RealDonaldTrump favorite — collaborated with white supremacists, neo-fascists & antisemites for years, creating propaganda #Trump has openly embraced, a new @SPLCenter investigation finds.
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Read our investigation to learn about #JackPosobiec’s ties to white supremacy and the #WhiteHouse.
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ACT for America
Brigitte Tudor, better known as Brigitte Gabriel, founded ACT for America in 2007 at a time when the anti-Muslim movement was beginning to take shape in the United States. While claiming an unlikely 750,000 members and more than 1,000 chapters, the...
More than 1,700 Confederate symbols are still standing across U.S., advocacy group says
The SPLC's Lecia Brooks argues that the removal of these symbols is a powerful message to a country struggling to deal with its "tortured racial history."
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"Why do we want to name or venerate people who fought to enslave other human beings?" — SPLC's Lecia Brooks
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Klansman Charged With Hitting Protesters With Truck in Virginia
As communities across the country unite to protest killing of African Americans at the hands of police, acts of unbridled racism have simultaneously reared up in the form of cars being rammed into protests.
On the 57th anniversary of Medgar Evers’ assassination, the march for voting rights continues
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“In terms of my role at the SPLC, he taught me that electing a particular candidate is not the end goal. The true destination is living in a world of mutual respect and peace.” - Nancy Abudu, Deputy Legal Director. 57 years later, #TheMarchContinues
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Baton Rouge police got military gear through controversial Defense Department program
The Baton Rouge Police Department, under fire for a militarized response to protests over last week's police shooting of Alton Sterling, is among the Louisiana law enforcement agencies that got surplus military gear through the Defense Department's...
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#BatonRouge law enforcement agencies deployed war-fighting military gear during protests after #AltonSterling was killed.
Baton Rouge PD received military gear valued at over $460,000. The East Baton Rouge Sheriff got equipment valued at over $520,000.
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Jean-Philippe Rushton
Jean-Philippe Rushton is a psychology professor, author of a handful of academic tomes and numerous articles, and a onetime fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation — and probably the most important race scientist at work today.
SPLC Urges All Branches of Military Take Action and Remove Confederate Symbols from its Installations Around the World
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Today, we sent letters to the @DeptofDefense, @USArmy, @USNavy, @usairforce, @USCG and @USNationalGuard urging them to follow the @USMC's example and ban all #Confederate iconography from their bases and installations around the globe. #LoseTheLostCause
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Tell Us Your Voting Story
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We are hearing reports of specific issues facing #FultonCounty voters. #WeVoteGeorgia #GeorgiaVotes
If you or people you know are experiencing problems while trying to vote, please share your story here
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We are receiving reports of long wait times and other barriers to voting in #Georgia. #WeVoteGeorgia
If you or people you know are experiencing problems while trying to vote, please share your story here
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We are receiving reports of long wait times and other barriers to voting in #Georgia. #WeVoteGeorgia #GeorgiaVotes
If you or people you know are experiencing problems while trying to vote, please share your story here: splcenter.org/tell-us-your-v… pic.twitter.com/h1ew3k6RbC
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Bomb Threat Issued in Birmingham as Neo-Confederates React to Monument Removal
Amid ongoing protests against police brutality spurred by the recent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, cities from Richmond to Tampa are removing divisive symbols of the Confederacy. On Monday, one angry caller told police in Birmingham,...
The 'Boogaloo' Started as a Racist Meme
At the protests that have broken out across the country after George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, so-called boogaloo bois have been a conspicuous presence. Members of the overwhelmingly white online subculture have...
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Today, the term “Boogaloo” is regularly deployed by white nationalists and neo-Nazis who want to see society descend into chaos so that they can come to power and build a new fascist state.
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ICE keeps moving detainees around the U.S., causing COVID-19 outbreaks
Detainee transfers have led to COVID-19 outbreaks in facilities in at least 5 states. Despite limited testing, over 1,400 detainees have tested positive.
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Across the nation, ICE detention centers are quickly turning into #COVID19 hotspots as ICE continues to transfer detained people to less populated centers instead of releasing them; further putting all people at risk #FreeThemAll
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White Nationalist Group Posed as VICE Reporters While Identifying D.C. Protesters
The white nationalist non-profit VDARE hosted a livestream Tuesday in Washington, D.C., in which the group lied to antiracist demonstrators, saying they were reporters with “VICE Canada,” before urging them to say and spell out their names.
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North Carolina Protest Shooting Suspect Appears To Have Ties to Organized Neo-Confederacy, Hate Groups
Police in Salisbury, North Carolina, arrested two men Sunday, May 31, after they reportedly fired weapons near two groups of protesters. One man, identified by news reports as Jeffrey Alan Long, 49 of Kernersville, appears to be a member of a...
Antigovernment Movement
The Intelligence Project identified 576 extreme antigovernment groups that were active in 2019, down from 612 in 2018. Of these groups, 181 were militias (marked with an asterisk), down from 216 in 2018. The remainder included “common-law” courts,...