Hatewatch Headlines 1/4/2017
How social media changed everything; Kobach might get 鈥榠mmigration czar鈥� post; Sovereign citizens create Florida mess; and more.
: 2016 was the year social media changed everything -- by giving a platform for the rise of right-wing extremism.
: How Trump could get around the Senate and hand Kris Kobach a key job as 鈥榠mmigration czar.鈥�
: Dylann Roof rejects the best defense against his own execution in Charleston mass-murder trial.
: Pinellas County legal officials roiled by false documents from antigovernment sovereign citizens.
: Anti-choice activists in Oklahoma have a new tactic to spread outright lies about abortion.
: Anti-abortion activist arrested for making terrorist bomb threat against Planned Parenthood of St. Louis.
: Phony 鈥榚x-terrorist鈥� claims Democrats are plotting to let Islamic terrorists take over America.
: In battle over proposed Prince William County mosque, some see Islamophobia at work.
: Hebrew Union College sign vandalized with swastika.
: KKK lawyer represents Georgia police officer in Confederate flag firing case.
: Malheur standoff defendant Jon Ritzheimer now tries to withdraw his guilty plea.
: Writer Lindy West leaves Twitter: 鈥楪et back to me when your website isn鈥檛 a roiling rat-king of Nazis.鈥�
: The American far right鈥檚 twisted new fascination with Europe鈥檚 Middle Ages.
