Liberal advocacy groups that publish widely cited lists of purported “hate groups,” tarring a diverse spectrum of conservative organizations, are facing defamation claims alleging they knowingly spread falsehoods about those organizations’ beliefs and activities.
A federal judge recently refused to dismiss litigation against the 52-year-old Southern Poverty Law Center for designating the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society , which promotes “legal, sustainable and reduced immigration,” as an “anti-immigrant hate group .”
The designation came seven years after SPLC told The Associated Press the label would be too strong for what it called a “nativist” group that works “through the political process.” That has always been its approach, according to the April 2022 lawsuit by the society, which is named after a teenager killed by an illegal immigrant .
The Alabama-based civil rights organization made its name suing the Ku Klux Klan before turning its scrutiny on socially conservative groups such as the Family […]
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