Trump’s election, the New York Times ran a feature titled “This Week in Hate,” consisting of reports supplied by the SPLC and others of swastikas painted on walls and Muslims derided as terrorists. Many of the reports could not be corroborated or were proved to be false. The SPLC also entered into working partnerships with Amazon, Facebook, Google, PayPal, and Twitter to police their platforms for alleged hate and blacklist what it considered objectionable. Some of the organizations the SPLC defined as hate groups are simply Christian advocacy entities, such as Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom, the latter of which represented Christian baker Jack Phillips in his successful Supreme Court battle against being forced to design a cake for a gay wedding. The SPLC has brandedbeaten in a Florida prison while a guard looked on and did nothing. Ten months later, the case was settled with the guard agreeing to pay a mere $60,000 in damages while the state of Florida and its correctional agency, which had never been sued, were released from liability.

A current SPLC suit is vintage Dees, seeking punitive and other damages against Andrew Anglin, owner of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, for allegedly doxxing and harassing a Jewish real estate agent who had dealings with the mother of another white supremacist, Richard Spencer. Anglin has no fixed address and faces lawsuits by others, so it is unclear how much the allegedly harassed agent, Tanya Gersh, will ever collect from him should she win her case.

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