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The SPLC Intelligence Project’s Data Lab uses cutting-edge techniques from data science and open-source intelligence to understand how threat actors exploit the online landscape. The Lab’s scope includes cryptocurrencies, “alt-tech” platforms and online organizing by extremists and hate groups.

How Cryptocurrency Revolutionized the White Supremacist Movement

White supremacists embraced cryptocurrency early in its development, and in some cases produced million-dollar profits through the technology, reshaping the racist right in radical ways, a Hatewatch analysis found.

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