In the News

Here is a list of articles and publications that have interviewed/quoted me and/or credited my work recently…

“Research connects correlation between online antisemitism and attacks,” Jerusalem Post, May 11, 2023

“Массовая стрельба в Техасе,” Дежурный по Нью-Йорку, May 9, 2023

“How a fake Nashville manifesto fueled anti-trans rage online,” Washington Post, March 31, 2023

“Attacks on U.S. Jews and gays accelerate as hate speech grows on Twitter,” Washington Post, January 24, 2023

“Surging Twitter antisemitism unites fringe, encourages violence, officials say,” Washington Post, December 3, 2022

“Elon Musk’s ‘amnesty’ pledge brings back QAnon, far-right Twitter accounts,” NBC, December 2, 2022

“Why cutting the head off the Oath Keepers snake won’t be enough,” NBC, December 1, 2022

“Column: Elon Musk is breaking his new toy. Will it cost us our democracy?” LA Times, November 13, 2022

“Here’s how Twitter and Elon Musk can prevent racist ‘raids’ on the social network,” CNBC, November 3, 2022

“Kremlintarians: Russia’s war on Ukraine exposes great libertarian divide,” Sydney Morning Herald, October 19, 2022

“Column: Climate change is fueling extremism, raising tempers along with temperatures,” LA Times, September 28, 2022

“‘One-stop hate shop’: Andrew Tate’s rise to TikTok superstardom is fueling violent misogyny and men’s rights extremism,” Business Insider, August 18, 2022

“A new generation of white supremacist killer: shedding blood with internet winks, memes and livestreams,” LA Times, May 16, 2022

“Elon Musk claims Twitter’s ban on Donald Trump amplified Trump’s voice among the right. That’s not quite true,” Insider, May 15, 2022 

“Report: Hate groups decline, but one active in Creswell,” Eugene Register Guard, March 18, 2022

“Dogecoin jumped 7% after Elon Musk said he is not selling his crypto holdings,” Fortune, March 14, 2022

“Russia’s wild theories about secret bio-labs and ‘crisis actors’ in Ukraine are crafted to appeal to US conspiracists, experts say,” Insider, March 14, 2022

“The Far-Right Is Trying to Blame the Climate Crisis on Immigration,” Vice News, March 11, 2022

“A new report calls Web3 a ‘potential threat to democracy’ and says that memes are a sinister problem for crypto and NFT investors,” Fortune, March 4, 2022

“Escac a l’exèrcit conspiranoic més gran dels Estats Units,” El Temps, February 13, 2022

“American donors to trucker convoy may be outnumbering Canadians: CTV News analysis,” CTV News, February 10, 2022

“Large number of donations to support convoy came from aliases, unnamed donors,” CBC, January 28, 2022

“LEAK: The Businesses Behind Uyghur Genocide Denial,” The Young Turks Network, January 27, 2022

“Bilder fra retten sirkulerer i høyreekstreme fora. PST mener miljøene utgjør en trussel,” Aftenposten, January 22, 2022

“Il caso Moby ci riporta alla svolta pro Cina di Grillo. Un’indagine,” Il Foglio, January 21, 2022

“Rittenhouse acquittal magnifies divisions in a polarized America,” Washington Post, November 11, 2021

“A group of notorious white nationalists met secretly in historic Lancaster County barn last year. Why here?” LancasterOnline, October 30, 2021

“Truth Social could provide Trump with infusion of cash — but critics are concerned about its content,” ABC, October 22, 2021

“‘Lock him up’: Anger behind Trudeau protesters existed before Trump, experts say,” GlobalNews, September 16, 2021

“Bernier’s talk of ‘tyranny’ echoes far right militia group’s slogan, say experts,” CBC, September 10, 2021

“Trump losing the 2020 election has only increased the chance of right-wing violence“, NBC, August 14, 2021

“How can we distinguish between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism?” TRT World, June 4, 2021

“TX Sheriff: FBI Takes Over Case In Alleged Wal-Mart Mass Shooting Plot,” Newsy, June 4, 2021

“Texas Matters: Inside The Arrest of Potential Walmart Shooter, TXGOP at the Q-vention And Democracy In Danger,” Texas Public Radio, June 4, 2021

“The Kerrville Nazi who threatened to shoot up Walmart started a martyrdom cult — and fantasized about a nuclear holocaust,” RawStory, June 4, 2021

“A Website That’s Become A Hub For Far-Right Extremists Is Run By A Suburban Chicago Man,” WBEZ, June 2, 2021

“How Ted Cruz ended up sharing Russian far-right propaganda to attack the US military,” Insider, May 25, 2021

“Sen. Ted Cruz insulted a ‘woke, emasculated’ U.S. Army ad. Angry veterans fired back,” Washington Post, May 21, 2021

“A Pennsylvania Lawmaker and the Resurgence of Christian Nationalism,” The New Yorker, May 9, 2021

“Vaccine Denialism Is the Right Wing’s Favorite New Conspiracy Theory,” The New Republic, March 26, 2021

“Far-Right Extremists Move From ‘Stop the Steal’ to Stop the Vaccine,” New York Times, March 26, 2021

“Oregon brothers charged in US Capitol riot connected to Proud Boys,” KGW, March 25, 2021

“QAnon now pushes alarming conspiracy myths targeting China and Jewish people,” LA Times, March 23, 2021

“How Anti-Asian Activity Online Set the Stage for Real-World Violence,” New York Times, March 21, 2021

“With Trump gone, QAnon groups focus fury on attacking coronavirus vaccines,” Washington Post, March 11, 2021

“Right-wing extremists stage ‘meme war’ to compete for Trump supporters,” LA Times, January 27, 2021

“State capitols tighten security and brace for the unknown as far-right groups plot shows of strength,” Washington Post, January 16, 2021

“Capitol Mob Has Roots in Anti-Lockdown Protests,” The Intercept, January 15, 2021

“Proud Boys Channels Are Exploding on Telegram,” Rolling Stone, January 14, 2021

“How will Trump’s followers fight for airtime?” Columbia Journalism Review, The Kicker, January 11, 2021

“Canadian military was warned of reservist’s hard-right online ties by allied intelligence agency,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, December 13, 2020

“Social Media App Parler’s ‘Free Speech’ Focus Draws Conservatives — And Violent Extremists, Experts Say,” CapRadio, December 6, 2020

“Parler Courts Conservatives With Promises Of Unrestricted Free Speech,” KNPR, December 2, 2020

“Droht Bürgerkrieg in den USA?! Wie ticken US-Milizen?” Galileo, ProSieben TV, November 7, 2020

“The Boys are Bored: How the Media Turns Mistrust and Nihilism into Violence,” Columbia Journalism Review, November 2, 2020

“Bienvenidos a la América de Weimar: viaje a la capital de la violencia de EEUU,” El Confidencial, October 30, 2020

“Police Brutality at the Black Lives Matter Protests,” Forensic Architecture and Bellingcat, October 29, 2020

“Losing the Peace: USA Police Failures to Protect Protesters from Violence,” Amnesty International, October 23, 2020

“Tracking the Shifting Shape of Far-Right Violence,” Bloomberg CityLab, October 16, 2020

“QAnon: Quatro Candidatos a Vereador Mostram como Conspiração Invadiu Estas Eleições Municipais,” The Intercept Brazil, October 7, 2020

“Who is Q? A popular theory says QAnon’s ringleader is the owner of a forum that hosted mass shooters. Experts doubt the revelation would change the movement,” Insider, October 7, 2020

“We Tracked the Shocking Amount of Gun Violence at U.S. Protests,” Vice News, October 1, 2020

“Inside Portland’s Turf War Between Proud Boys and Local Antifascists,” Vice News, September 30, 2020

“Идущие к ‘великому концу’: как устроено фашистское подполье в XXI веке,” BBC Russia, September 28, 2020

“Interactive map shows the cold civil war is getting hot,” Boing-Boing, September 14, 2020

“MapLab: The Spread of Far-Right Vigilantism,” Bloomberg MapLab, September 9, 2020

“What Portland and Kenosha say about the return of political violence in America,” YahooNews, September 8, 2020

“What Patriot Prayer and Antifa Believe,” KGW News, September 4, 2020

“Ciudadanos armados de América,” La Vanguardia, September 4, 2020

“Alexander Reid Ross on what the media got wrong about the Portland protests: Everything,” Salon, September 4, 2020

“‘Temo por uma guerra civil’: os eleitores de Trump que saem armados para enfrentar protesto,” BBC Brazil, September 2, 2020

“Portland killing renews focus on tactics of far-right group Patriot Prayer,” Washington Post, September 1, 2020

“Law enforcement agencies across Oregon respond to Gov. Brown’s call to action,” KPTV, August 31, 2020

“Thom Hartmann Show,” August 31, 2020

“As clashes between armed groups and leftist protesters turn deadly, police face complaints of tolerating vigilantes,” Washington Post, August 30, 2020

“Los supremacistas blancos viven una nueva edad de oro en Estados Unidos,” EFE, August 30, 2020

“Vigilante? Militia? Confusion And Politics Shape How Shooting Suspect Is Labeled,” NPR, August 28, 2020

“Cas Jacob Blake: racisme sistèmic i grups parapolicials pro Trump a Kenosha,” 324.cat, September 6, 2020

“White Vigilantes Have Always Had A Friend In Police,” Huffington Post, August 28, 2020

“Armed Civilians at Protests: A Threshold Has Been Crossed,” Financial Times, August 28, 2020

BBC World Service Radio, August 27, 2020 (around minute 37)

“The Killings Could Get Much Worse,” The Atlantic, August 27, 2020

“What Is #SaveTheChildren and Why Did Facebook Block It?,” Rolling Stone, August 24, 2020

“How the Wayfair human-trafficking conspiracy theory grew out of QAnon,” Insider, July 13, 2020

“Support for anti-government, pro-gun Boogaloo movement growing in Canada,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, July 1, 2020

“Mapping Paramilitary and Far-Right Threats to Racial Justice,” Political Research Associates and Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, June 19, 2020

“Armed Vigilantes Antagonizing Protesters Have Received a Warm Reception From Police,” The Intercept, June 19, 2020

“How 6 blocks in Seattle became a microcosm of the culture wars,” Politico, June 18, 2020

“Le mouvement « boogaloo » veut profiter des manifestations pour provoquer la guerre civile,” Radio-Canada, June 5, 2020

“Far-right civil war accelerationists called the Boogaloo Bois are appearing at protests around the country with guns and Hawaiian shirts” Insider, June 3, 2020

“How ‘antifa’ became a Trump catch-all,” Politico, June 2, 2020

“Politicians Blame ‘Outsiders’ for Riots,” Financial Times, June 1, 2020

“Outsiders, extremists are among those fomenting violence in Twin Cities,” Minnesota Public Radio, May 31, 2020

“Lifestyle influencers are using COVID-19 to spread QAnon conspiracy theories: ‘I truly believe I owe it to my audience to be more for them during this turning point in our culture,’” Insider, May 15, 2020

“Richard Spencer Is Trying to Stage a Comeback Using a Russian Payment Platform,” Truthout, May 10, 2020

“Oregon Historical Society Delves into State’s White Supremacist History,” The Skanner, February 10, 2020

“Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette,’” The Nation, December 5, 2019

“Why Europe’s far right supports India on the Kashmir issue,” Al Jazeera, November 2, 2019

“Comrade Razzi: An eccentric Italian politician’s unusual love for North Korea,” NK News, October 30, 2019

“Bibliography – 2019,” Center for Analysis of the Radical Right

“Learn, Fight, Win: A woefully incomplete guide to the people, books and sites that you should be following to keep ahead of the rise of white extremists,” Nation of Change, August 29, 2019

“What the Oregon Standoff Tells Us About the GOP and White Supremacy,” Pacific Standard, July 31, 2019

“PORTLAND VIOLENCE: When Fascists Become the Anti-Fascists?” Byline Times, July 1, 2019

“Far-Right Group Patriot Prayer Is Declining. Thank Anti-Fascists,” TruthOut, June 25, 2019

“Why Fascists Storm Bookstores,” The Nation, May 20, 2019

“After Activist Pressure, Amazon Purges Dozens of Far-Right Books,” TruthOut, March 22, 2019 

“White Nationalism Is an International Threat,” New Republic, March 15, 2019   

“Six Degrees of Robert Mueller,” Portland Tribune, February 8, 2019 

“Clark Brothers Accused of Planning Race War Followed Alt-Right Heroes,” The Daily Beast, November 14, 2018 

“Meet the Canadian soldiers behind a white supremacist military surplus store,” Ricochet Media, October 29, 2018 

“‘Hitler em Brasília’: jornal israelense publica artigo com críticas a Jair Bolsonaro,” Noticias, October 25, 2018

“The Proud Boys, The GOP, and the ‘Fascist Creep,‘” Huffington Post, October 17, 2018

“Is Portland the next Charlottesville? City braces for Saturday rally by violent right-wing groups,” RawStory, August 4, 2018

“The Soros Obsession: Why far-right conspiracy theories prevail,” Al Jazeera, June 6, 2018

“‘The Rain’ and Its Man-Eating Planet,” Playboy, May 15, 2018

“Dear Leftists: Going On Tucker Carlson Is Not Going to Stop Imperialism,” Pacific Standard, May 8, 2018

“Exclusive: Major neo-Nazi figure recruiting in Montreal,” Montreal Gazette, May 3, 2018

“What is fascism, anyway?” The Link, April 3, 2018

“The Taakeaway,” Invisible Oranges, February 28, 2018

“Fear and Loathing in Cascadia,” The Baffler, February 27, 2018

“White Hot Rage at This Year’s CPAC,” The Nation, February 23, 2018

“Emboldened white nationalists? Look no further than this liberal Oregon college town,” The Oregonian, December 29, 2017

“Looking Back on the Best Books of 2017,” Portland Mercury, December 27, 2017

“June 4: Portlanders Confront White Nationalists Over Free Speech,” Willamette Week, December 19, 2017

“Info Wars: Inside the Left’s Online Efforts to Out White Supremacists,” ProPublica, October 30, 2017

“How does fascism sneak into pop culture?” Pacific Standard, October 4, 2017

“Antifa: What is behind the masks in Berkeley,” Berkeleyside, September 12, 2017

“Why White Nationalists Love Bashar Al-Assad,” The Intercept, September 8, 2017

“Antifa has a rapid response team that targets alt right organizers,” Reveal, September 5, 2017

“Socialism, fascist-style: hostility to capitalism plus extreme racism,” The Guardian, August 20, 2017

“America’s neo-fascists have revived a tactic long abandoned by their counterparts in Europe,” Quartz, August 19, 2017

“Why is the US still fighting the civil war?” The Guardian, August 16, 2017

“Meet the Raging Grannies, Portland’s not-so-secret warriors for civility,” Christian Science Monitor, August 16, 2017

“Trump’s America: Where activists face felony charges,” Al Jazeera, August 14, 2017

“Unite the Right: White supremacists rally in Virginia,” Al Jazeera, August 13, 2017

“Are the Proud Boys a Hate Group? Experts Weigh In,” The Alt, July 19, 2017

“Are rightwing pundits right that America is on the brink of a civil war?” The Guardian, June 22, 2017

“Mark Latham is working with Rebel Media. Can he also work at the Daily Telegraph?” The Guardian, June 17, 2017

“‘Islam is a threat to America’: What the alt-right had to say at their rally after Portland’s stabbings,” The Independent, June 6, 2017