Hatewatch Headlines 8/23/2017
Fringe views create a national showdown; Conspiracy theories big part of Trump support; Geller has a fit over PayPal shutdown; and more.
New York Times: The showdown over how to define fringe views in America.
CBS News: Hate rising: White supremacy is on the increase in the U.S.
Think Progress: White supremacists are running for office as Republicans; will the party respond?
Washington Post: Trump backers’ alarming reliance on conspiracy theory websites, in one chart.
Talking Points Memo: Relegated to fringe platforms, white nationalists are stuck in their own echo chambers.
Raw Story: Islamophobe Pamela Geller throws a fit after PayPal boots her in white supremacist purge.
Huffington Post: George and Amal Clooney donate $1 million grant to SPLC in effort to combat hate.
Cleveland Plain Dealer (OH): White man with pipe bomb arrested hours before Akron vigil for Charlottesville victims.
AlterNet: Seven key white supremacists and their links to Russia’s Vladimir Putin – and to Trump.
Centre Daily Times (College Station, PA): Richard Spencer not welcome at Penn State, college president says.
Miami New Times (FL): White supremacist exploits Charlottesville tragedy to mount Florida Senate run.
Media Matters: Right Side Broadcasting parts ways with Nicholas Fuentes, who participated in Virginia rally.
Boston Herald: Gun-toting militia leader from New York is among the arrestees in Boston protest.
Record-Courier (Kent, OH): Leader of Ohio Minutemen Militia denies any link to white supremacists, neo-Nazis.
Rare Houston (TX): ‘We’re proud, not racist,’ proclaims leader of San Antonio Confederate militia.
