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- Hate & Extremism
Hatewatch
Digital Threat Report: Telegramās Toxic Recommendations Perpetuate Extremism
Executive Summary Telegram is a social media and messaging application that is popular worldwide but was less commonly used in the U.S. until 2019. Following the 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, the 2020 rise of QAnon and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S.-based platforms such as Facebook and Twitter began…
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- Hate & Extremism
Hatewatch
Inside the Beehive
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 websiteās efforts to keep information secure.
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- Hate & Extremism
Hatewatch
Heritage Foundation staffer RSVPād to white nationalistās wedding
A contributor to The Heritage Foundationās controversial Project 2025 governance plan intended to attend a white nationalistās wedding, according to publicly accessible information the Data Lab reviewed.
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Hatewatch
Neo-Nazi Music Distributorās Leaked Customer Data Provides Identities and Insights
A Hatewatch investigation into leaked customer data of Sweden-based neo-Nazi hate music distributor Midgard revealed purchasers including a Wisconsin police officer and a known white nationalist whose name continued to show up in Midgard purchases months after his death.
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Hatewatch
Digital Threat Report: Mass Shooter Videos
Executive Summary Years after three horrific mass shootings, videos created by the different attackers behind them are still present on social media and mainstream streaming services. Some services are facing challenges detecting and getting rid of these videos, and one, Elon Muskās X (formerly Twitter), doesnāt appear to be trying to remove these videos with…
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Hatewatch
Digital Threat Report: Odysee
Executive summary Odysee is a video-storage and livestreaming platform designed as an alternative to YouTube. SPLCās Data Lab found that Odysee has little to no content moderation and provides a steady income stream for hate groups and extremists, including fugitives, some of whom are earning thousands of dollars each month peddling hateful or violent content…
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Hatewatch
Extremist Crypto And Finance: Q3 2023 Briefing
Extremists Get Boost From Donor-Advised Funds, Bitcoin
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Hatewatch
Hosting Company Used by Extremists Received $3 Million in Bitcoin After 2021 Hack
An unidentified source sent Epik, a web services company that caters to a far-right customer base, nearly $3 million worth of bitcoin one day after hackers announced that they had broken into the companyās servers, the Southern Poverty Law Centerās Data Lab found.
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- Hate & Extremism
Hatewatch
Neo-Nazi Ex-Marine Buys Up Land in Rural Maine for ‘Blood Tribe’
Since the beginning of 2023, neo-Nazi and ex-Marine Christopher Alan Pohlhaus has ramped up his efforts to create a white supremacist enclave in Maine by accumulating rural property, soliciting cryptocurrency donations on Telegram and embarking on a cross-country recruiting trip, according to messages Pohlhaus posted to Telegram.
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Hatewatch
Extremists Receive Large Ethereum Cryptocurrency Donations
A single benefactor made cryptocurrency donations worth more than $216,000 to extremists and hate groups between September 2021 and April 2022, according to an analysis provided to Hatewatch by the SPLCās Data Lab.
