white extremism

ISIS attacks abroad and a series of deadly right-wing attacks in the U.S. have fueled a demand for more information on extremist networks. Understanding them is the first step in fighting them. But there has been little discussion about potential harm to

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'It Gets To You.' Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work

4:08pm September 20, 2019

by Hannah Allam

Day after day, researchers are immersed in the propaganda of ISIS and neo-Nazi factions. But there's almost no discussion of the mental toll of examining the world's most dangerous extremists.

An archived screenshot of 8chan, an online message board that shooters have used to post messages before their attacks, describes itself as "the darkest reaches of the Internet."

National

'Uniquely Lawless': Security Firm Drops 8chan Website Following El Paso Shooting

5:54pm August 05, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

"At some level firing 8chan as a customer is easy," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said. Before the Texas shooting, the suspect is believed to have posted a white nationalist, anti-Hispanic screed.

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The Website Where Violent White Supremacists State Their Case

10:11am August 05, 2019

by Aarti Shahani

The El Paso shooter targeted a Latino community and left a manifesto on the website 8chan — hallmarks of a white extremist attack, experts say, and not to be confused with other types of shootings.

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Authorities Have Few Tools To Fight Far-Right Extremism Online

8:56am August 05, 2019

by Hannah Allam

Minutes before the El Paso shooting, a manifesto was posted online, calling the attack as a response to an "invasion" of Hispanics into the U.S. What can authorities do to fight far-right violence?

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the company's annual developers conference in San Jose, Calif., May 1, 2018. Facebook is beginning to enforce a ban on white nationalist content.

World News

With Facebook Ban On White Extremism, International Norms Apply To U.S.

6:31pm April 05, 2019

by Aarti Shahani

Facebook is beginning to enforce a ban on white nationalist content this week. The move comes as Australia, Germany and other countries pass tough laws to curb hate speech.

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A message card is placed at a collection of flowers left at the Botanical Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday. A 28-year-old white supremacist stood silently before a judge, accused in mass shootings at two mosques that left dozens of people

A 'Mainstreaming Of Bigotry' As White Extremism Reveals Its Global Reach

7:48pm March 16, 2019

by Kirk Siegler

In the aftermath of the New Zealand mosque shootings, experts who monitor hate groups say violent white extremism is on the rise, and is the most prominent threat.