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White Supremacy And Its Online Reach

<a href="https://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev">Talia Lavin</a> went undercover in white supremacist online communities, creating fake personas that would gain her access to the dark reaches of the internet normally off-limits to her, a Jewish woman. That research laid the groundwork for her book, <a href="https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/talia-lavin/culture-warlords/9780306846434/">Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy</a>. Lavin talks to Sam about what it was like to infiltrate those online spaces, what she learned, and how white supremacy cannot exist without anti-Semitism. Learn more about sponsor message choices: <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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