Guardian "Amazon and other platforms allowing payments to far-right groups"

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/28/amazon-online-platforms-far-right-splc?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Gmail


Dozens of hate groups and racist media outlets are receiving income via mainstream payment processors such as Amazon, Stripe and DonorBox, according to a new report by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

The groups still receiving donations and sales via such platforms include promoters of the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory that motivated the Christchurch shooter, an organization cited as an inspiration by mass shooter Dylan Roofl, and several groups that participated in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville that ended in the killing of a protester.

The CMD report – called Funding Hate – finds that despite previous, widely publicized crackdowns, and explicit policies forbidding racist far-right groups from their services, companies are still allowing income to flow to white nationalist, neo-Confederate, and neo-Nazi hate groups.

The report found three such groups were still using DonorBox, including the American Freedom party, which advocates the deportation of non-white people and the creation of a white ethnostate.

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