Extremism: Confronting Hate Without Fear
The Breeding Ground of Extremism: Exploring the Use of
Social and Online Media
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Join us for a panel discussion with leading experts:
· Michael
Edison Hayden, Southern Poverty Law Center
· Christopher
Mathias, senior reporter, Huff Post
· Moderated
by Marilyn Markham
Christopher Mathias is a senior reporter at HuffPost
where he covers right-wing extremism and civil unrest. He covered the deadly
“Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville; was kicked out of a Steve King
campaign event; and was wrongly arrested by the NYPD while covering an anti-racist
uprising. He's exposed the white nationalist ties of congressmen, congressional
candidates, U.S. servicemen, cops, a prison guard, an EMT, and two teachers.
More recently he reported on the radicalization of the GOP in Idaho. Originally from
Gettysburg, Pa., he now lives in New York City.
Michael Edison Hayden serves as a Senior
Investigative Reporter and Spokesperson for Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC),
where he publishes stories about online radicalization, social media
influencers and authoritarianism. His work as an investigative reporter has
also been published in The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, National Geographic, and Los
Angeles Times, among other publications. He is a three-time grantee of the
Pulitzer Center on Crisis reporting and he authored Columbia University’s guide
to OSINT reporting in 2019.
