If you thought the threat of violent right-wing extremism went away when Donald Trump left office, think again.
Disturbing new reporting from The Intercept has revealed how right-wing billionaires including the Koch family are waging a dangerous campaign of "domestic information warfare" against college professors whipping up "anti-antifa hysteria."
One professor told The Intercept: "Nobody directly said, 'I'm going to come kill you,' but it was so close to that."
The right wing has been waging war on academic freedom for years. It's just one element of a right-wing disinformation network that threatens the foundations of our democracy. The Intercept has been uncovering this ecosystem for years, digging deep to report on the billionaire donations that helped lead to the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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The conservative website Campus Reform, whose publisher is funded by the Koch family, posts hundreds of flimsily sourced stories that seize on stray emails, tweets, or public statements to sic armies of trolls on academics, flooding them with hate mail and threats so alarming that some end up leaving their homes.
Campus Reform can mobilize thousands of trolls in an instant because it's part of a carefully nurtured network of right-wing think tanks, news sites, and training organizations. The right-wing disinformation machine sows distrust of government, institutions of higher learning, and the media — helping corporations and the super-rich to remain unregulated and untaxed.
The Intercept team is committed to investigating this dangerous right-wing ecosystem and exposing the individuals behind it.
We've pored over tax records and campaign finance reports to show how January 6 rioters were funded by right-wing billionaires like the Mercer family.
We're combing through a massive data dump on Gab, the far-right social network that's become a safe haven for extremist content.
We've documented how the D.C. rioters are part of a generations-long trend of white supremacist violence that's never been fully prosecuted.
But while the right wing's culture warriors will always be able to turn to the super-rich for financial resources, progressive organizations and independent news outlets are struggling for support in the post-Trump era. New donors to The Intercept have dropped by more than 40 percent since Trump left the White House.
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