Boogalooers are part of an embryonic, decentralized movement that organizes largely online but whose presence has increasingly been felt in the real world.

Vocal extremists are showing up at the ongoing protests over the murder of George Floyd and police brutality.

On June 15, 2020, a federal grand jury indicted Matthew Patrick Slatzer of Canton, Ohio, on weapons charges.

Facebook claims it is effectively addressing hate on its platforms. ADL, however, continues to findegregious examples of online hateand extremism across the company’s products.

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Despite public announcements of efforts to curb hateful speech and misinformationacross its platform, Facebook still hosts many spaces where hateful content propagates and thrives. While some of these problematic activities occur in small groups, a number of problematic Facebook groups have grown to a significant membership size, yet are still allowed to exist by Facebook.

QAnon conspiracy theorists are using public and private Facebook pages and groups to spread disinformation, racism, and thinly veiled incitement to violence.

Israel struck an agreement with the United Arab Emirates to establish “full normalization of relations” even as it forgoes for now plans to annex occupied West Bank territory in order to focus on improving its ties with the rest of the Arab world. Facebook will start banning posts that contain blackface or that promote antisemitic conspiracy theories that Jewish people are running the world. A Georgia congressional candidate, who has a history of spreading QAnon conspiracy theories, and Islamophobic rhetoric, won a primary runoff this week; ADL and other organizations have raised concern about her history of bigoted rhetoric.