Facebook is a hotbed for conspiracy theories and dangerous organizing at critical moments, like the 650,000-plus posts arguing against President Biden's victory between the 2020 general election and ...

“Join Your Local Militia or III% Patriot Group,” a post urged the more than 650 members of a Facebook group called the Free American Army. Accompanied by the logo for the Three Percenters militia ...

Despite facing backlash from civil rights activists and Democratic lawmakers, Republicans in conservative-leaning Nassau County, New York, are moving forward with a plan to form an armed, civilian ...

As a scholar of militias, I’ve seen extremists get kicked off Facebook before. This time, the platform’s moderators took down roughly 100 pages and profiles for violating the social media network’s ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. When journalists sounded alarm bells in early May 2024 that more than 100 ...

It’s happening again: Armed, antigovernment militias and other like-minded groups are organizing and recruiting on social media at a scope and pace not seen since the lead up to Jan. 6. This time, ...

One way you can tell the far right is thinking Kamala Harris is going to win in November: they’re talking about forming militias again. The site’s home page invites potential members to “join us on a ...

Trump called on Proud Boys to "stand by," when pressed by moderator. President Donald Trump was given a chance during the first presidential debate to denounce white supremacists and militias that ...

Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are reportedly preparing to disarm for the first time, responding to growing pressure from the U.S. under President Donald Trump to avert a wider ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A militia group in the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin is demanding money from a Kurdish family to return their house, which the group has turned into a military ...

BEHIND THE LINES: Despite setbacks, Iraq’s Iranian-backed militias continue to thrive politically, posing a lasting threat to Israel’s security.

Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of an Israeli-backed anti-Hamas militia, was killed in Gaza during an attempt to mediate a ...