Dustin Volz
By Dustin Volz
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Fast Forward Trump Focusing Anti-Extremism Initiatives on Islam, Not White Supremacy
Washington, D.C. (Reuters) – The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters. The program, “Countering Violent Extremism,” or CVE, would be changed to “Countering Islamic Extremism” or “Countering Radical…
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Fast Forward White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis Use Twitter With ‘Impunity’: Report
White nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathizers located mostly in the United States use Twitter with “relative impunity” and often have far more followers than militant Islamists, a study being released on Thursday found. Eighteen prominent white nationalist accounts examined in the study, including the American Nazi Party, have seen a sharp increase in Twitter followers…
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Fast Forward Michael Bloomberg Plots $1B Independent Run for President
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has told his aides to draw up plans for an independent campaign for the U.S. presidency, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Bloomberg has advised friends and associates that he would be willing to spend at least $1 billion of his own money on…
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