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Hatewatch Headlines 4/23/18

A mass-shooting suspect may be a sovereign citizen; Facebook shouldn’t count on artificial intelligence; Alex Jones’ conspiracy challenger, and more.

: Travis Reinking, the suspect in the weekend’s mass shooting in Tennessee, called himself a sovereign citizen last year when he tried to gain access to the White House grounds.

:  Has the alt-right peaked? Is it imploding?

: The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is playing a role in getting California cities to opt out of the “Sanctuary State” law.

: A look at ties between Russia and the far-right and the National Rifle Association in the United States.

: California man faces hate crimes for allegedly having “kill lists” of prominent Jews.

: Blackface is free speech at Cal State, but anti-Bush tweet is not.

: Facebook shouldn’t count on artificial intelligence (AI) to fix its hate speech problems.

: Attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke, who has represented the alt-right Proud Boys, sues a man who’s trying to get him disbarred for racism.

: California lawmakers are considering a bill to make selling or advertising gay conversion therapy a violation of the state’s consumer fraud laws

: They spewed hate. Then they punctuated it with the president’s name.

: Why are Richard Spencer and David Duke still on Twitter?

: Is it a coincidence that Trump uses the language of white supremacy?

: Alex Jones protégé, Paul Joseph Watson, is about to steal Jones’ crown as king of the conspiracy theorists.

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