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    Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate

    By | August 28th, 2017|Categories: Articles|

    By Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Madeleine Varner and Lauren Kirchner, Aug. 19, 2017 Because of its “extreme hostility toward Muslims,” the website Jihadwatch.org is considered an active hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center

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    The road to hate: For six young men, Charlottesville is only the beginning

    By | August 21st, 2017|Categories: Articles|

    by Terrence McCoy August 19, 2017   For all that he did in Charlottesville, chanting anti-Semitic slogans, carrying a torch through the college town, he wasn’t even aware that the alt-right existed one year ago.

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    Portland Offers Grants to Track Hate Crimes

    By | August 21st, 2017|Categories: Articles|

    by Olivia Sanchez Thursday, August 03, 2017 "Portland aims to curb hate crimes, which have surged since Donald Trump's campaign, by kickstarting a local hate crime documentation and response system. A new city initiative called Portland

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    Minnesota Governor Calls Mosque Attack a ‘Criminal Act of Terrorism’

    By | August 21st, 2017|Categories: Articles|

    by Jonah Engel Bromwich August 7, 2017 "The governor of Minnesota denounced an attack on a mosque the previous day as a “terrible, dastardly, cowardly” act of terrorism. “It’s an act of terrorism, a criminal

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