Hatewatch Headlines 12/18/2018
YouTube has become an online radicalization machine; Fake news travels faster on Twitter; Banner desecrates Fields victim’s church; and more.
: How YouTube built a high-powered radicalization machine for the racist right.
: Study finds that on Twitter, fake news travels faster than true stories.
: Church in Nelson County desecrated with a banner praising James Fields Jr.
: Unrepentant white supremacist gets two years for hate vandalism: ‘Heil Hitler. No regrets.’
: Deportations under Trump are on the rise, along with fear in the immigrant community.
: Michael Flynn, the FBI, and the far right’s latest nutbar conspiracy theory.
: White nationalist YouTuber claims Jeffrey Epstein once gave him $25,000.
: The New York Times just published an unqualified recommendation by Alice Walker for an insanely antisemitic book.
: St. John Fisher students tied to vandalism of Frederick Douglass statue.
: Man admits to vicious anti-gay subway attack because he saw two women kissing.
: Former Oregon State student leader with ties to alt-right gets jail time for vandalism.
: Paduchans are seeing white nationalist Identity Evropa stickers all over town.
: New York teens record and post ‘extremely racist’ mock school shooting videos, and get arrested for terrorism.
Wisconsin county settles claim over arrest executed with surplus military vehicle.
: Alleged German neo-Nazi police officers may have used law enforcement database to threaten people.
: Meet the secretive white nationalist group trying to recruit students and the homeless.
: How Britain is grappling with a nationalist dark web, and why the government is worried.