How Misinformation Networks Feed and Fund Far-Right Extremism
A new report helps highlight how dark money misinformation networks are fueling anti-immigrant extremist narrative
A recent article published in the Texas Observer is part of “Seeds of Distrust,” an ongoing investigative collaboration exposing a far-right misinformation network spreading anti-immigrant propaganda using the “invasion” narrative. The organization, Border911, promotes a Trumpian false narrative about the border, drug trafficking, and immigration while equating migrants to terrorists and terrorism.
“It’s about a record amount of drugs flowing across the open border that has killed more Americans than any terrorist organization or war … It’s about a historic number of known or suspected terrorists using our vulnerable southern border as a gateway to enter this great nation and attack from the inside. It’s about our right to be a sovereign nation.” — Border911 Mission Statement
Border911 is closely affiliated with the America Project which claims, “The Southern Border is the greatest National Security threat we have ever faced as a Nation,” while boasting they have “information has been hidden from the American people for too long!” The website also claims to be exposing and “fixing the election…
