It came to light last week that the Biden administration provided a listing of “hate groups,” which lumped together mainstream conservative organizations alongside avowed neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, to major U.S. banks for the purpose of monitoring financial transactions in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol.
Experts say the pattern could lead to an increase in banks canceling the accounts of politically disfavored organizations.
The listing was taken from a report compiled by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the Global Disinformation Index, two U.K.-based left-wing activist groups. The report includes a listing of “American Hate Groups,” which is itself based on the classifications of the anti-Christian Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The listing classifies conservative…
