Tracing Violent White Supremacists and Online Radicalization from Charlottesville to Today
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In August 2017, individuals from at least 35 states across the U.S. converged in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. It was the largest gathering of white supremacists in a generation.
Chants of “Jews will not replace us” and “Blood and Soil,” a Nazi slogan, rose in the air. Violence flared. And by the time the “Unite the Right” rally ended, a counterprotester was killed after a neo-Nazi behind the wheel of a car slammed into a crowd, an act of terror that injured dozens.
At the end of Documenting Hate: Charlottesville, FRONTLINE and ProPublica’s 2018 documentary investigating the deadly rally and its roots, correspondent A.C. Thompson said, “The movement that violently erupted in the streets of Charlottesville hasn’t gone away.”
“The story,” he added, “is far from over.”
What has happened in the years since has borne out the truth of that statement — and FRONTLINE and ProPublica have kept on reporting.
On March 25, the two organizations will release The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram — a new, 90-minute documentary investigating how a global community of white supremacists exploited loosely-moderated online platforms to spread hate and promote terror attacks in recent years.
In the runup to the documentary’s premiere, explore a selection of FRONTLINE and our partners’ past documentaries and podcast episodes tracing the evolution of violent far-right extremism, white supremacist movements, and online radicalization, from Charlottesville to today.
Content retrieved from: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/white-supremacist-violence-online-extremism-charlottesville-terrorgram/.
