We examine the confusion over whether the Florida school shooter was a white supremacist, the argument for being friends with racists 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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They’re the target market for white supremacists’ online recruiting.
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Kobach wants DHS to pursue voter citizenship tests, internal docs show
Documents suggest the Trump administration’s ultimate goal may be to push for citizenship tests for people across the country registering to vote.
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The Hate Report: The year of hate
In this week’s Hate Report: the reporting that tells the story of hate in 2017.
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The Hate Report: ‘He didn’t like seeing a black man with a white woman’
A swath of new hate crimes and hate-crime prosecutions across the country, a style guide for neo-Nazis and a quasi-fascist stumps for Roy Moore.
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The Hate Report: Charlottesville planner plans another Charlottesville
The internet’s leading neo-Nazi and the Charlottesville planner confront legal problems, a planned mosque shooting and hate-crime stat problems.