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A data breach from Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo has revealed that millions of dollars have been raised on the site for far-right causes and groups, many of whom are banned from raising funds on other platforms.It also identifies previously anonymous high-dollar donors to far-right actors, some of whom enjo...

Daniela Lourdes Falanga has had her fair share of battles. The first was to survive a brutal upbringing as the firstborn son of a mafia boss in Naples. Falanga, 43, had been expected to follow in the footsteps of her father, currently serving a life sentence, into the powerful Camorra organised crime syndicate. Inst...

The founder of far-right group the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, his lieutenant, and three members of the militia who guarded Donald Trump ally Roger Stone swapped numerous phone calls in a three-hour period on 6 January when the Capitol was attacked by a mob, prosecutors said Thursday.These exchanges coincided with...

If the moustache, trimmed narrowly in the style of Adolf Hitler, don’t give it away, then the antisemitic YouTube rants, the testimony of 34 colleagues and the neo-Nazi reading material certainly do.Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a US army reservist, is – according to court documents – an “avowed white supremacist and Nazi...

After another muddied election result, Benjamin Netanyahu is betting on a partnership with a group so extreme that even the prime minister’s usually unflinching backers from the pro-Israel US lobby cannot stomach it.The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) has called Jewish Power, a party of ultranationa...

Israel is due to hold its fourth round of elections on Tuesday, although the result could simply extend a two-year-long political stalemate and possibly lead to a dreaded fifth vote.Multiple failed attempts to form stable governments after largely inconclusive previous elections have left the country in a protracted...

The neo-fascist Proud Boys deployed a large contingent in Washington on 6 January, the day of the US Capitol attack, with more than 60 “participating in” an encrypted messaging channel called “Boots on the Ground”, a federal indictment says.The indictment, which includes conspiracy charges against four men described...

The mysterious individual behind a new and rapidly growing online disinformation network targeting followers of QAnon, the far-right cult, can be revealed as a Berlin-based artist with a history of social media manipulation, a prominent anti-racism group claims.Since Donald Trump left the White House, QAnon’s vast o...

Washington Post reported on the study which confirmed what researchers have long argued about: the echo chamber effectA small subset of Facebook users is reportedly responsible for the majority of content expressing or encouraging skepticism about Covid-19 vaccines, according to early results from an internal Facebook study.The study, first reported by the Washington Post, confirms what researchers have long argued about how the echo...

In 2019 Thierry Baudet looked like a plausible contender for power. Now, as the Netherlands heads for the polls, he’s reduced to mimicking Trump On 20 March 2019, Thierry Baudet provided Dutch television viewers with two surprises. The first was news of his landslide victory in that day’s senate elections. Baudet’s far-right Forum for Democracy (FvD) was a newcomer in parliament, holding just two...

Organisation linked to the Christchurch mosque attack gunman is outlawed for inciting hatred and violenceFrance has banned a notorious far-right “paramilitary” group linked to the gunman in the Christchurch mosque attack and accused of inciting discrimination, hatred and violence.Interior minister Gérald Darmanin announced the Génération Identitaire organisation was being dissolved after a council of ministers meeting on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Analysis: Membership list of American Patriots Three Percent also shows widespread network of people from variety of occupationsA Guardian investigation of a website leak from the American Patriots Three Percent shows the anti-government militia group have recruited a network across the United States that includes current and former military members, police and border patrol agents. Continue reading...

They’ve ditched the shaven heads but, despite recent setbacks, they remain a threat, says film-maker Christian SchwochowInside a university auditorium in Prague, a young man in a crisp black shirt and white trainers is railing against the pro-immigration politicians he holds responsible for a recent Islamist terror attack in Berlin. To build a safer Europe, he yells, “we have to get rid of those...

Open letter says the launch of online outlet ‘Rightly’ is ‘an affront’ to the network’s journalistic visionMore than a hundred staff at the Qatar-funded media organisation Al Jazeera have signed an open letter to management objecting to the launch of a rightwing digital platform that they say betrays its journalism and will “irreparably tarnish the network’s brand and work”.The internal letter, seen by the...

After decades in hiding, in prison or keeping low profile, players from a bloody period in the country’s history are now seen as ‘folk idols’ by the Turkish rightAt first glance, the photograph of two smartly dressed older Turkish men, posing for the camera in an office filled with flags, could be of any important figures in the country – but it is rare...

Source: former president will speak at conservative eventFlorida plan to honour Rush Limbaugh raises hacklesFormer president Donald Trump will address the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Florida next week, about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement, a source familiar with the plan told Reuters on Saturday. Related: Trump ally Nunes sees CNN Ukraine lawsuit thrown out by New...

Facebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn’t enoughMark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO, announced last week the platform will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users in an attempt to “turn down the temperature” on online divisiveness. Continue reading...

Move follows allegations that the rightwing group played a role in the mob attack on the US Capitol in JanuaryCanada has described the far-right Proud Boys group as a “serious and growing threat” and branded it a terrorist organization alongside Isis and al-Qaida, amid growing concerns over the spread of white supremacist groups in the country.On Wednesday Bill Blair, public safety minister, also announced...