Southern Poverty Law Center

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American non-profit organization based in Montgomery, Alabama.

Organization

Name Position Notes
Lecia Brooks Chief of Staff[1] PopShift[2]
Alex Kotch Contributor[3] OptOut Media Foundation, Center for Media and Democracy, Institute for Southern Studies

Partners

SPLC is partnered with Advocates for Responsible Care (ARxC),[4] the Canadian Anti-Hate Network,[5] and the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism.[6]

In 2018, SPLC provided $100,000 in funding to MoveOn Civic Action.[7]

COVID-19

In November 2023, SPLC described video platform Odysee as a "digital threat" because it "has little to no content moderation and provides a steady income stream for hate groups and extremists, including fugitives, some of whom are earning thousands of dollars each month peddling hateful or violent content on the site."[8]

Subsidiaries

  • Civil Rights Memorial Center

Funding

SPLC has received funding from:[9]

  • America's Charities
  • Apple
  • Cisco Foundation
  • Clooney Foundation for Justice
  • Fidelity Charitable
  • Grove Foundation
  • JBP Foundation
  • Picower Foundation
  • Public Welfare Foundation
  • Rice Family Foundation
  • Schwab Charitable
  • Unbound Philanthropy
  • Vanguard Charitable
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation

  1. Lecia Brooks. International Storytelling Center. Retrieved October 25, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.10.25-183032/https://www.storytellingcenter.net/tellers/lecia-brooks/ ↩︎

  2. EXPERTS_Disinformation. PopShift (by Pathos Labs). Retrieved March 11, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230311002242/https://popshift.org/experts_disinformation/ ↩︎

  3. Kotch, A., & Hayden, M. E. (2021, June 17). Donors Pumped Millions into White Nationalist Group. Southern Poverty Law Center. http://archive.today/2021.06.17-162553/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/06/17/donors-pumped-millions-white-nationalist-group ↩︎

  4. ARxC Partners and Patient Resources. Advocates for Responsible Care. Retrieved May 10, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230510180229/http://www.advocatesforresponsiblecare.org/who-we-are/arxc-partners-and-patient-resources ↩︎

  5. Exposing and stopping hate. Canadian Anti-Hate Network. Retrieved September 16, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.09.16-021018/https://www.antihate.ca/about ↩︎

  6. Partners. Centre on Hate, Bias, and Extremism. Retrieved October 1, 2020, from http://archive.today/2020.10.01-114302/https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/centre-on-hate-bias-and-extremism/partners/index.php ↩︎

  7. 2018 Gift Disclosure. MoveOn: People-Powered Progress. Retrieved March 14, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.03.14-231927/https://front.moveon.org/2018-gift-disclosure/ ↩︎

  8. Fernandez-Aubert, E.-J., Reinhart, R., & Squire, M. (2023, November 6). Digital Threat Report: Odysee. Southern Poverty Law Center. https://web.archive.org/web/20240716061321/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/11/06/digital-threat-report-odysee ↩︎

  9. Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). InfluenceWatch. Retrieved October 25, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231025182345/https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/southern-poverty-law-center-splc/ ↩︎

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Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess is a Canadian writer, researcher and investigative reporter focused on issues of human rights and civil liberties, with a particular interest in the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the founder of White Rose Intelligence.

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