Opinion

BROADCAST BIAS: Networks downplay Southern Poverty Law Center funding KKK, Nazis

Most networks initially skipped the DOJ's allegations the group secretly paid informants and tried to hide the money trail

By Tim Graham Fox News

Published April 25, 2026 8:00am EDT

Facebook Twitter Threads Flipboard Comments Print Email Add Fox News on Google

close

Video

Southern Poverty Law Center charged with fraud over alleged extremist group payments

Southern Poverty Law Center charged with fraud over alleged extremist group payments

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been a favorite elitist media source for decades to warn constantly of a dangerous "far right" threat to America, from neo-Nazis to the Ku Klux Klan. They wanted you to believe that 23 skinheads meeting at a state park in Kentucky had national significance.  All that fell apart this week.

A 2018 Anti-Defamation League report on the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan reported it "is the largest and the most active Klan group in the country with approximately 100 members." But this somehow defines America with 340 million people as deeply racist.

On April 21, the Justice Department indicted the SPLC for financial fraud, taking money from leftist donors and paying informants inside racist and extremist groups and trying to hide the money trail. Naturally, the same media that has promoted SPLC's narrative of an America gripped by White supremacy doesn't want to get into the ugly specifics of the indictment underlining that alleged scam.

Even the "paper of record," The New York Times ran a front-page story that laid out all the conservative complaints about the group in recent years, but didn’t get into their allegedly fraudulent payoffs.

BROADCAST BIAS: ‘PUBLIC’ MEDIA FURIOUS WASHINGTON POST CUT BACK ON ANTI-TRUMP CRUSADE

A split image shows Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk,........

© Fox News