Aug 11 Brazilians rally for democracy, seek to rein in President Jair Bolsonaro By Diane Jeantet, Débora Álvares, Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press The event was held Thursday at the University of Sao Paulo’s law school. It carried echoes of a gathering nearly 45 years ago when citizens amassed to denounce a brutal military dictatorship, which lasted two decades. Continue reading
Jun 20 French election emboldens far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, undercuts Macron By Sylvie Corbet, Barbara Surk, Associated Press Le Pen's National Rally party didn't win the two rounds of voting in the parliamentary election that ended Sunday. But it secured more than 10 times the seats it won five years ago. Continue reading
Apr 18 France investigating EU fraud agency report on presidential candidate Marine Le Pen By Angela Charlton, Associated Press Paris prosecutors are studying a report by the EU fraud agency accusing French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of misusing public funds while serving in the European Parliament. Continue reading
Jan 13 Founder of Oath Keepers, 10 other members charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol insurrection By Michael Balsamo, Colleen Long, Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press Stewart Rhodes is the highest-ranking member of an extremist group to be arrested in the deadly siege and it is the first time the Justice Department has brought a seditious conspiracy charge in connection with the attack on the Capitol. Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch 13:29 Mainstream presence of Proud Boys, other extreme groups creates mass radicalization fears By Nick Schifrin, Sam Lane, Ali Rogin This week is the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol. In the months since the riot, a number of far-right extremist groups have become household names, and some of their core beliefs — and… Continue watching
Nov 30 French far-right pundit enters race for presidency By John Leicester, Associated Press A far-right former TV pundit with multiple hate-speech convictions has officially entered the race for France’s presidency. Continue reading
Nov 17 Hate speech trial begins in France for far-right pundit By Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press Eric Zemmour, who has two prior hate speech convictions, is being tried on charges of “public insult” and “incitement to hatred or violence” against a group of people due to their ethnic, national, racial or religious origin. Continue reading
May 28 Watch 4:56 Their loved ones are ‘obsessed’ with QAnon conspiracies. It’s tearing their families apart By Gretchen Frazee, Dorothy Hastings A survey released by the Public Religion Research Institute this week found 15% of Americans believe a QAnon conspiracy that the government is controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Just one in five Republicans fully reject the theory. For… Continue watching
Dec 03 Right-wing users flock to Parler as social media giants rein in misinformation By Alex Newhouse, The Conversation Parler is similar to Twitter but doesn’t control or discourage hate speech or calls to violence. Continue reading
Oct 12 Slovakia’s far-right leader sentenced to 4 years in prison By Associated Press The leader of a far-right party with seats in the Slovak parliament was convicted of illegal use of neo-Nazi symbols and sentenced to four years and four months in prison on Monday. Continue reading