Jack Smith IV

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Jack Smith IV is a senior writer covering technology and inequality. Send tips, comments and feedback to jack@mic.com.
Amazon publishes a library of white nationalist books and magazines. They know it, and won’t stop.
By Jack Smith IV
White nationalists are being run out of the online spaces most people flock to every day for news and information. Facebook has launched a review of its policy of letting white nationalists use the social network. PayPal regularly bans white…
How YouTube communities are creating “pathways of radicalization” toward white supremacist ideas
By Jack Smith IV
Certain tactics have become popular among the world’s growing legion of YouTube stars to build massive followings and show up in your recommended videos. Appearing on the channels of likeminded influencers and posting personal growth confessionals…
Major right-wing conference will host European nationalist politicians
By Jack Smith IV
This weekend, some of America’s most bombastic conservative leaders and provocateurs are converging on St. Louis, Missouri, for a right-wing convention known as the Eagle Council. Many of the speakers at the 50-year-old convention are household…
Emails show Berkeley police department has policy of tweeting photos and info of arrested protesters
By Jack Smith IV
At many far-right rallies, but more often at anti-racist protests, demonstrators are rounded up and arrested and frequently charged. The charges following these demonstrations are frequently dismissed. But when the local police tweet out a…
Republican Rep. Steve King is retweeting white nationalists. Again.
By Jack Smith IV
Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa made it three whole months without retweeting a popular white nationalist. Now the question is: Will he make it to the midterm elections without retweeting another? On Wednesday afternoon, King retweeted Lana…
“We have a president that likes us”: Anti-Islam group brags about weekly meetings at White House
By Jack Smith IV
For nearly a decade, anti-Islam nativists have pushed the conspiracy theory that the U.S. government had been infiltrated by Muslim extremists and the White House compromised by Islamic radicals at the highest levels. Now, anti-Islam nativists are…
Historians say Dinesh D’Souza lured them under false pretenses to interview for new pro-Trump film
By Jack Smith IV
One of the most lucrative political documentaries of the decade is making millions in theaters right now, though you won’t find it in a single theater in cities like New York City or San Francisco. If you’re a progressive, you might not have even…
The rush is on to declare the alleged Texas shooter a left-wing or right-wing terrorist
By Jack Smith IV
On Friday, police identified a high school junior named Dimitrios Pagourtzis as the suspect who went to his school near Houston, Texas, and shot and killed multiple students and staff. Within minutes of the public learning Pagourtzis’ name, there…
Kanye West’s new pals don’t want to free your mind — they want to destroy welfare
By Jack Smith IV
Over the past two weeks, Kanye West emerged from a months-long period of relative silence to espouse a familiar conservative theory about black America. The rapper, who on TMZ this week seemed to indicate that 400 years of slavery was a “choice” for…
Kanye West just tweeted the work of Jordan Peterson, another conservative thinker
By Jack Smith IV
After days of exhausting his fans with tweets celebrating the president and other conservatives, Kanye West tweeted a video Thursday morning that was all about the music. At least, that’s how it seemed. The video is of West’s laptop that’s playing…