ORLANDO, FL – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has a so-called "Hate Tracker" webpage, which purports to track social media communications of groups that SPLC hates. The "Hate Tracker" page includes the following social media hashtags: #christmas, #merrychristmas, #merrychristmaseve, #jesus, and #whitegenocide and #ineedwhitesupremacybecause this week. The SPLC claims it monitors social media communications of so-called hate groups and now claims that the #christmas, #merrychristmas, #merrychristmaseve, and #jesus hashtags are due to a so-called algorithm, but the SPLC cannot run from the clear intent of its "Hate Tracker" page.
The SPLC website plainly states that it is a "Hate Tracker" and, when narrowed to specific days, on December 24th, #merrychristmas held the No. 2 ranking. On December 25th, #merrychristmas was ranked No. 1 and on December 26th, it was ranked No. 3. After Liberty Counsel and other media sources challenged the SPLC, it now claims the rankings are created with an automatic feed of popular tweets among those it claims are hate groups, and that the "Hate Tracker" webpage doesn't actually track hate; it just tracks what is being tweeted by supposedly hateful people.