Hate Watch - Council Of Conservative Citizens Suspended From PayPal
Good news: PayPal will no longer work with the Council of Conservative Citizens after pressure was put on them following Dylann Roof’s terrorist attack. Hopefully this will make it more difficult for them to spread their bigoted propaganda in the guise of “news.” Keegan Hankes has more:
In the wake of revelations that Dylann Roof, the alleged Charleston, South Carolina, shooter, was “awakened” to the epidemic of “black-on-white crime” by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), PayPal - one of the world’s largest online money transfer services - has suspended the white nationalist hate group’s account after being contacted by Hatewatch.
“The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens,” Roof wrote. “There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief.”
The CCC’s website’s singular purpose is to propagate this false narrative of a victimized white majority under siege by allegedly violent people of color in the United States. Stories regularly feature gruesome images of victims accompanied by sensationalist rhetoric about the attacks designed to generate outrage.
In the wake of the death of unarmed, black teenager Trayvon Martin, the CCC’s website, disguised as a mainstream news source with domains like “Top Conservative news” and “Conservative-Headlines,” exploded with web traffic. Kyle Rogers, the site’s webmaster has publically boasted about changing the narrative around the story, as well as the fact that his coverage brought 170,000 unique visitors to the site in a single day.