“Today, a handful of billionaires fund far-right, anti-Islamic, anti-immigrant, and/or ultra-nationalist political figures, movements, and alternative media personalities.”
“Robert Mercer is a billionaire hedge fund manager and CEO of Renaissance Technologies. A Trump donor, Mercer worked with Trump’s short-lived strategist, Steve Bannon, to make Breitbart News a platform for the so-called alternative right, or “alt-right.” The term alt-right was coined by Richard Spencer, a white supremacist and Trump-supporter who is himself funded by the multimillionaire, William Regnery II, via the National Policy Institute.”
“Using Facebook, Cambridge Analytica also worked with employees of Palantir, a data-mapping company set up with CIA money and owned by a billionaire tech entrepreneur, the PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel. Thiel has openly stated that democracy is incompatible with capitalism. Thiel was a big investor in Facebook and Reddit, the latter being a message board that worked “meme magic” to help boost Trump’s profile on social media.”
“[Tommy Robinson] founded the English Defence League, an anti-Islamic group consisting largely of angry young-to-middle-aged white males. […] Robinson received money indirectly from the billionaire tech CEO, Robert Shillman, who regularly donates to anti-Islamic organizations, including the David Horowitz Freedom Center, noted above. Robinson worked with the Shillman-funded Rebel Media, a Canadian far-right company that attracts (mostly male) viewers by employing alluring young women to whip up hate against the left, immigrants, and Muslims. After being fired from the corporate, right-wing British radio company, LBC, the far-right commentator Katie Hopkins joined Rebel Media. Hopkins’s university work was funded by the British Army Intelligence Corps and she is a graduate of Sandhurst Military Academy.”
Read more: The Billionaires Behind the Far-Right
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