Informing on the informants.
The article reports on the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC), a progressive non-profit, on wire-fraud charges by failing to disclose to donors that it paid a network of informants inside far-right groups to gather intelligence. It suggests the need for prosecutors to show either t...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 459; no. 9497; pp. 23 - 24 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
5/2/2026
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