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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...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 459; no. 9497; pp. 23 - 24
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 5/2/2026
Subjects:
Southern Poverty Law Center
Espionage
Computer fraud
Disclosure
Civil rights organizations
Right-wing extremists
Informers
Disclosure laws
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