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Aaron Sankin

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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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Posted inHate, The Hate Report

The Hate Report: Another white man accused of randomly killing black men

by Will Carless and Aaron Sankin September 22, 2017April 27, 2018

The slayings echo other brutal killings that have happened this year.

Posted inThe Hate Report

The Hate Report: Boy, 8, victim of attempted lynching in New Hampshire

by Will Carless and Aaron Sankin September 15, 2017April 27, 2018

Plus: Congress presses President Trump to do more about white supremacists, and the Proud Boys face an identity crisis.

Posted inThe Hate Report

The Hate Report: Read these 4 stories to understand antifa

by Aaron Sankin and Will Carless September 8, 2017April 27, 2018

A handy primer on antifa, the KKK’s imprint on Charlottesville and what happened to business owners who gave to white supremacist David Duke.

Posted inThe Hate Report

The Hate Report: Tracking a wave of swastikas across the country

by Aaron Sankin September 1, 2017April 27, 2018

We found 42 instances of swastika vandalism in the month of July. It’s become a catch-all for all types of extremist hate.

Posted inAccountability, Hate, The Trump Era

In chat rooms, Unite the Right organizers planned to obscure their racism

by Aaron Sankin and Scott Pham August 31, 2017June 30, 2021

Organizers of the Unite the Right rally had a clear plan, according to the group’s chat and conference calls. The group’s plan failed spectacularly.

Posted inThe Trump Era

The Hate Report: A guide to this weekend’s Bay Area protests

by Will Carless and Aaron Sankin August 25, 2017August 25, 2017

In the weeks before Charlottesville, it was apparent the protest would turn violent. It’s not so clear this time.

Posted inThe Hate Report, The Trump Era

The Hate Report: Behind the scenes, neo-Nazis plotted a fight

by Aaron Sankin and Will Carless August 18, 2017April 27, 2018

Any “very fine” person could have predicted racism and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. No one was hiding their intentions, it seems.

Posted inInequality

How activists of color lose battles against Facebook’s moderator army

by Aaron Sankin August 17, 2017June 30, 2021

As Facebook is under the microscope for failing to stop harassment and the spread of fake news, it also faces another problem: The social media giant’s reporting policies punish minority users in a variety of ways.

Posted inHate, The Trump Era

Google and GoDaddy dump neo-Nazi website after Charlottesville attack

by Aaron Sankin August 14, 2017September 7, 2017

After being kicked off GoDaddy’s domain name registration service, the white supremacist site moved to Google. Google quickly kicked it off, too.

Posted inHate, The Trump Era

Charlottesville conspiracy theories spread, echoing ‘false flag’ claims

by Aaron Sankin August 13, 2017September 7, 2017

Internet accounts of staging intended to sow violence may seem like idle speculation except recently similar suspicions have raised doubts even inside the White House.

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