The false narrative around the Pulse shooting, white supremacist messaging through diapers and what internal DOJ documents say about civil rights.
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 alt-right is a mess
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The Hate Report: Get to know the Three Percenters
The man allegedly behind the Minnesota mosque bombing, a white supremacist group collapses due to family drama and some conspiracy mongers get sued.
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