It’s the week in extremism: A White House effort on longstanding challenges, and the latest murder tied to QAnon conspiracy theories.
Author: Will Carless, USA TODAY
Boogaloo on Facebook, Kiwi Farms and police in the Oath Keepers: Explaining the week in extremism
If that’s an extraordinary word salad, here’s how to make sense of it.
Inside our FBI investigation, plus news on Oath Keepers, armed leftists: The week in extremism
A wide-ranging week: Biden and Trump, Oath Keepers and armed antifascists, and our investigation of why the FBI won’t say who it’s watching online.
Threats spike; Pence urges calm; Jan. 6: The week in extremism
Spiking threats against the FBI, a plea for calm from Pence, and making money off the insurrection: The week in extremism
Threats toward FBI, law enforcement were already on the rise. Then came Mar-a-Lago
Online and in real life, animosity toward the feds is at a level not seen since the anti-government movement of the mid-90s, experts told USA TODAY.
‘Kill FBI on sight’: Truth Social reveals the final days of the Cincinnati attacker
The Ricky Shiffer account on the former president’s social media service was active for just nine days. By the end of that time, Ricky Shiffer was dead.
Suspect in Cincinnati FBI breach may have posted on Trump’s Truth Social during incident
‘If you don’t hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I.,’ one post reads.
Alex Jones, Oath Keepers and voter intimidation: The world of extremism this week
Extremist groups and ideologies are driving the news and affecting life in the U.S. Here are the big storylines from the past seven days.
The extremist watchers: How a network of researchers is searching for the next hate-fueled attack
Meet the people who track hate and conspiracy theories in real time: “It looks like I’m just on my phone, but I’m actually trying to save the world.”
‘Devastating piece of evidence’: Filing reveals a Proud Boys plan to storm buildings Jan. 6
The full document, which had not been previously released to the public, describes a plan to “fill the buildings with patriots and communicate our demands.”