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Report Finds Facebook Is Still Profiting Off Far-Right Extremism. In Other Words, It’s a Monday

A recent study has shown that despite Facebook’s claims that it’s cracking down on right-wing extremist groups, the company accepted ad buys from such groups as recently as October. According to Buzzfeed News, a report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) has shown that multiple Facebook pages and groups associated with far-right extremist groups are…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

October 19, 2020
News

Armed Black Militia Marches Through Stone Mountain Park Calling for Removal of Nation’s Largest Confederate Monument

It’s often said that if Black people took up arms and marched through the streets, gun laws would get passed with the quickness. It’s been said we could never get away with it the way mobs of white protesters have been able to this year alone. Well, on the Fourth of July, about 1,000 heavily…

By

Zack Linly

Published

July 6, 2020
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69-Year-Old Militia Leader Accused of Harassing Migrants on the US-Mexico Border Boasted of Aim to Kill Obama, Clinton: Report

Guess we could have seen this one coming. The 69-year-old leader of an armed militia group accused of rounding up migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and holding them at gunpoint before turning them over to U.S. Border Patrol told the FBI his group was training to kill Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and prominent Democratic donor George…

By

Dara Sharif

Published

April 23, 2019
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A Group of Wannabe Feds Is Going Around Pointing Guns at Immigrants at the US-Mexico Border and Calling It Citizen's Arrest; ACLU Calls It Kidnapping

Members of a local militia in New Mexico apparently decided to take matters into their own hands regarding this nation’s immigration policy and detained a group of asylum seekers at gunpoint before turning them over to U.S. Border Patrol. Video posted online by a group calling itself United Constitutional Patriots show armed militia members, wearing…

By

Dara Sharif

Published

April 19, 2019