Manufacturing Extremism: SPLC Indicted for Funding the Hate It Profited From

The Southern Poverty Law Center spent decades branding itself as America’s watchdog against “hate.” Now the watchdog is under indictment.A federal grand jury has charged the SPLC with wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. According to the Justice Department, the organization allegedly funneled more than $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to individuals tied to extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America. Prosecutors claim the SPLC hid the nature of those payments and filed false statements tied to bank activity.The SPLC denies wrongdoing....