right wing extremism
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What the EPA Has in Common With Pornographers
It’s been a few weeks since our last edition of Hellfeed, and in the meantime, things on the feed have gotten somewhat closer to baseline dispiriting: While the U.S. president’s efforts to overturn the election results have degenerated from coup attempt to dangerous levels of cringe, social media firms are eager to return to pretending…
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‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Already Selling on Extremist Proud Boys T-Shirts, Thanks to Trump
At the 2020 presidential debates on Tuesday, Donald Trump didn’t just choke on condemning white supremacists — he actually gave what a far-right hate group that has beat up protesters and launched street brawls interpreted as at the very least a tacit endorsement, or even a direct order. The president has since attempted to walk…
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Zuckerberg Admits That Facebook Screwed Up by Ignoring Milita Group Complaints Before Kenosha Shooting
Facebook made “an operational mistake” in ignoring reports about a page encouraging an armed militia to “defend” Kenosha, Wisconsin, against Black Lives Matter protestors, CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a video post Friday.
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NYPD Arrests QAnon Conspiracist Who Allegedly Threatened To Kill Joe Biden, Had Car Full Of Knives
The New York City Police Department arrested a conspiracy theorist who issued death threats against former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and allegedly travelled to the city carrying over a dozen knives, the Daily Beast reported. The suspect also live-streamed her own arrest on Facebook.