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Founder. that it has released a series of reports identifying what they have described as hate sites over the years. and more recently moved into the covid misinformation game. the white house claimed that there were these 12 different accounts that were the source of the overwhelming lone wolf of misinformation. there is very little evidence, actually of this put forward. are you disturbed at all that the american white house would be relying on foreign sort of secretive firms for the sources o...

Senator? >> the president is more determined than ever to get something on it makes sense we will not take peoples guns away from them. i own an ar-15 i lawfully own a gun. if you took my gun away the bad guys will not give up their guns. it is the person with the gun im focused on. we want to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people who are hateful or mentally ill. the red flaglegislation grants the state to have these red flag laws , the president is focused on that. working with senator...

The one that took storm front down, the nazi website. so that guy has a huge amount of power on whether these hate sites live or die and there is a legitimately a question of whether we want to give him control over these hate sites, too. >> before we go, you are back at the helm. you had been briefly dismissed. there was a staff uprising. folks quit. now you are back. what happened? >> yeah. it was a real lesson for me. i left. i found the markup to really focus on the impact on society. and i ...

Largest neo-nazi hate sites on the internet he talked about. my next guest met derek black a former white nationalist walked away from the ideology. the author of rising out of hatred, derek blacks story growing up as a white supremacist and how he found his way out. eli, welcome to the show. let me start with how much, give a sense of how what kind of problem this is on the internet and how much this is a growing issue. >> its a massive problem. unfortunately, its not just a massive problem on ...

Rise over hatred a product of the tools of social media and the internet. cnn hate sites cannot be stopped. heres cnn sarah side ner. >> whats been made clear we have a problem in one of the problems is online. there are places on the web that are not in the dark web. open public spaces that white nationalists and supremacists. racists are going to encourage each other to violence. and that is exactly what was happening on 8 chan. >> minutes before the chaos unleashed on families at walmart in e...

Hias is with me now. thank you for joining me. sorry its under these circumstances. when you first heard what this person did and his obsession with your organization, were you surprised or is this common among anti-semits and these kind of people? >> both. there are websites that dedicate an awful lot of space to hias, to how much they hate what we do and how much they hate refugees. some also hate jews and some are mass car aiding as issue-oriented sites but theyre hate sites. its never ended,...

I think we need to start -- you know, we monitor some of these hate sites like this particular one that the shooter was on. and when you combine that kind of speech on a hate site with the fact that this owned 21 weapons, there should be a red flag. a person like that should get a visit. i just think that we need to be more vigilant and more aware, all of us as citizens, that when we see someone who speaks this way or exhibits that kind of behavior, or we see a posting on a website or on any soc...

President of the united states to send a tweet. just think about that for a second. our closest ally has had to come out and say its wrong for the president to be tweeting something like. its obviously hitting them right at home. >> theyre very upset about it in the uk. it is extraordinary that the spokesperson for the british prime minister theresa may has to basically criticize the president of the united states for doing this. >> while our spokesman defends it. >> not important if the videos ...

And why is he doing this? why is he inciting this kind of discussion and potentially even violence rather than trying to solve our problems? >> the council of american islamic relations, david, they said these tweets you would expect to see on virulent arent anti-muslim hate sites, nonthe twitter feed of the president of the united states. how damaging is this to u.s. relations with friendly muslim majority countries whether in the middle east or elsewhere. >> its very damaging. because the pres...

Increase in white supremacy activity on the internet. donald trump needs to lead a government action to rip down those hate sites. there are no more recruiting online. there are things you can do like banning of confederate flags. i was in gatlinburg, tennessee, smoky mountains and saw gift shops selling it on main street. weve got to stop being so insensitive to in promoting a kind of fake confederate narrative and thinking its okay because it gets you southern states. that was parts of nixons ...