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A new report shows that online payment processors and merchants​, including Stripe, Amazon, and DonorBox, continue to facilitate the financial solvency of racist hate groups in a time where extremism-related crimes have spiked. In a report published Monday, Center for Media and Democracy invest

Stripe, a widely used online payment processor, has been informed about the use of its services by specific far-right extremist groups to finance their organizing efforts but the company has chosen inaction, activists say. Used by some of the biggest names in tech—including Amazon, Facebook, and Mic

Gab, a Twitter knock-off social media platform overrun with unhinged conspiracy theorists, spam and white supremacists, has been notified that it will lose its current payment processing platform if it does not clean up its website. According to screenshots of emails that Gab CEO Andrew Torba s

This article was reported in collaboration with ThinkProgress. It also appears on ThinkProgress. A year ago, Americans watched on in horror as the extremism and hate of the so-called “alt-right”, which had long been festering online, materialized in a very real and terrifying form on the s