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.
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of three articles examining how disinformation, and those peddling it, are impacting the election.
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.”
The white nationalist website VDARE, which has ties to former White House aides who helped shape the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies, suspended operations earlier this year amid a slew of legal and technical challenges.
A member of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front who appears to operate a social media account that disclosed personal information about perceived political enemies – including journalists, left-leaning activists, politicians and community members – is an active-duty soldier in the U.S. Army, a Hatewatch investigation has revealed.
Anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is engaged in an ongoing crusade to force private businesses to adhere to conservative Christian theology, in part by spreading the false narrative that private sector banks have been dropping conservative religious clients since the Obama administration. The conspiratorial claim, which ADF calls “debanking,” has arisen out of an ongoing effort from ADF to ban or disrupt private sector investments in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and environmental sustainability.
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