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In today’s attention economy, platforms are megaphones and audiences are income. Shut off the megaphone and the income goes away. Bad guy go bye-bye. Throughout the last year, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and beyond have reckoned with their social responsibility not to amplify and monetize hate in what has become known as “the great deplatforming.” But what about when the megaphone is off and the cash keeps flowing in?
A WIRED investigation has uncovered dozens of far-right and white supremacist figures who monetize or have monetized through financial services essential to Twitch and YouTube’s full-time gamers: Streamlabs and StreamElements. Booted off traditional streaming sites, these figures have fled to more underground, less moderated streaming services like DLive, where integrations with Streamlabs and StreamElements let viewers send monetary donations alongside public messages to streamers. Unlike Pay
According to documents obtained by the
Indy, the El Paso County Republicans will be using United American Defense Force (UADF), the armed wing of conservative political group FEC United, as security for its Feb. 6 Central Committee Meeting. During the Central Committee Meeting, county and district leaders will be elected by Republican Party members. According to a document provided to the
Indy titled, âUPDATED Tentative - Agenda Saturday, February 6, 2021,â the sergeant-at-arms for the meeting is listed as âUADF Security.â
Vickie Tonkins, chairwoman of the El Paso County Republicans, said via email when asked about UADFâs involvement, âWe will have security at the meeting as we always do and that includes Police.â
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The Ku Klux Klan is one of 20 hate groups in Alabama identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)
MONTGOMERY, AL The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified 20 hate groups in Alabama, which includes six statewide groups and 14 groups located in a specific city.
The SPLC released its annual Year in Hate and Extremism report Monday, and the report does show a decline over the last year in the number of hate groups operating across the country. The report identifies 838 hate groups nationwide.
Hate groups in Alabama, as identified by the SPLC:
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Alleged Nazi Supporter, Idaho Native Fined $9 Million For Threats
A former native of Idaho and Montana resident has been fined $9.9 million for allegedly producing thousands of recorded phone messages over the span of the past three years. The individual who received the fine has alleged ties to a white supremacy group.
(FCC) has fined a 51-year-old Montana resident more than $9 million for his roll in allegedly producing, and sending, more than 30,000 messages over the telephone to residents in multiple states, according to details shared at msn.com. The calls, in which nearly 5,000 were distributed between May and December of 2018 alone, were deemed unlawful and threatening, according to msnnews.com.