In this week’s roundup: The mountain of studies that obliterate the link between immigrants and crime, hate attacks at Pride events and more.
Aaron Sankin
Reporter
Aaron Sankin is a reporter for Reveal covering online extremism, election administration and technology policy. Before joining Reveal, he was a founding editor of The Huffington Post's San Francisco vertical and a senior staff writer on The Daily Dot's politics team. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, Time, The Motley Fool, Mashable, Business Insider, San Francisco magazine and The Onion. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Sankin studied history and sociology at Rice University. His work at The Daily Dot was a finalist in Digiday's 2015 publisher of the year award, and a story he wrote about a Midwestern family being terrorized by a teenage hacker was labeled by The Atlantic as an essential piece of journalism for 2015. Sankin is based in Seattle.
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The Hate Report: The hate behind the immigration crackdown
The white nationalist connections of Trump’s immigration adviser, Canadian immigration policy, a neo-Nazi quiz and more.
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The Hate Report: The state of anti-immigrant hate, 2018
How immigrants have been hit by hate crimes, the White House ties of one extremist anti-immigrant group and a possible hate crime solution.
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The Hate Report: The alt-right is down, but not out
Plus: The curious case of an adoption ad on a far-right podcast, a Middle Eastern conservative reflects on a Trump appointee’s Islamophobia and more.
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The Hate Report: Trump’s ‘animals’ comment enlivens neo-Nazis
In this week’s roundup: How the neo-Nazis heard Trump’s comments, the news that Hitler is definitely dead and a hate crime rundown.
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The Hate Report: Targeted for being straight? Nope
In this week’s roundup: Police across the country are reporting anti-heterosexual hate crimes, but there’s no evidence such crimes exist, and more.
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The Hate Report: 4 million anti-Semitic tweets and counting
In this week’s roundup: Quantifying hate on Twitter, analyzing Andrew Anglin and seeking info about racist political candidates near you.
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The Hate Report: Help us investigate hate
We’re launching a crowdsourcing effort to improve our reporting on hate in America.
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The Hate Report: Facebook pages glorified ‘incel’ mass killer
“The Incel Rebellion has already begun!” a Toronto man posted on Facebook before apparently plowing his van into a crowd.
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Trumping hate
Hate speech is nothing new in the United States. What is new is how often people who use it invoke Trump’s name.