Editing Hate group (section)

==Monitoring==
In the [[United States|US]], the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] does not publish a list of hate groups, and it also says that "investigations are only conducted when a threat or advocacy of force is made; when the group has the apparent ability to carry out the proclaimed act; and when the act would constitute a potential violation of federal law". The FBI maintains statistics on hate crimes.<ref name=fbifaq>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/faqs |title=Frequently Asked Questions |work=[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] |access-date=May 30, 2015}}</ref>

Two private American non-profit organizations that monitor intolerance and hate groups are the [[Anti-Defamation League]] (ADL)<ref name="titleADL: Fighting Anti-Semitism, Bigotry and Extremism">{{cite web |url=http://www.adl.org/ |title=ADL: Fighting Anti-Semitism, Bigotry and Extremism |access-date=2008-04-13}}</ref> and the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC).<ref name="titleSPLCenter.org...forwarding to index.jsp">{{cite web |url=http://www.splcenter.org/ |title=SPLCenter.org...forwarding to index.jsp |access-date=2008-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713171814/https://www.splcenter.org/ |archive-date=2019-07-13 |url-status=dead}}</ref> They maintain lists of what they deem to be hate groups, supremacist groups and [[antisemitism|antisemitic]], anti-government or extremist groups that have committed [[hate crime]]s. The SPLC's definition of a "hate group" includes any group with beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people—particularly when the characteristics being maligned are immutable.<ref>[http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map Hate Map] – SPLC</ref> However, at least for the SPLC, inclusion of a group in the list "does not imply a group advocates or engages in violence or other criminal activity."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map |title=Hate Map |access-date=2010-09-27}}</ref> According to ''[[USA Today]]'', their list ranges from "white supremacists to black nationalists, neo-Nazis to neo-Confederates."<ref name=usatoday2019>Woodyard, Chris (February 20, 2019) [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/02/20/hate-groups-white-power-supremacists-southern-poverty-law-center/2918416002/ "Hate group count hits 20-year high amid rise in white supremacy, report says"] ''[[USA Today]]''</ref>

The [[Canadian Anti-Hate Network]] is a nonprofit organization that monitors hate groups in [[Canada]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security |url=https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/SECU/Brief/BR9919854/br-external/CanadianAntiHateNetwork-e.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826211721/http://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/SECU/Brief/BR9919854/br-external/CanadianAntiHateNetwork-e.pdf |archive-date=2018-08-26 |access-date=2021-08-07 |website=[[Parliament of Canada]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Draaisma |first=Muriel |date=2018-05-08 |title=New anti-hate group aims to monitor 'growing threat' of far-right extremists in Canada |work=[[CBC News]] |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-anti-hate-network-forms-toronto-profiles-far-right-groups-1.4653148 |access-date=2021-08-07}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Pierce |first=Matthew |date=2021-01-12 |title=Canadian internet sleuths, anti-hate group helping to identify Capitol rioters |work=CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadians-help-track-down-rioters-capitol-1.5869389 |access-date=2021-08-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kestler-D'Amours |first=Jillian |date=2021-09-08 |title='What next?': Experts in Canada alarmed by anti-Trudeau protests |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/8/what-next-experts-in-canada-alarmed-by-anti-trudeau-protests |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908161528/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/8/what-next-experts-in-canada-alarmed-by-anti-trudeau-protests |archive-date=2021-09-08 |access-date=2022-01-04 |website=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Number of hate groups, by state, per million inhabitants..png|thumb|400px|right|Number of [[Southern Poverty Law Center|SPLC]] hate groups per million, as of 2013]]

According to the SPLC, from 2000 to 2008, hate group activity saw a 50 percent increase in the US, with a total of 926 active groups.<ref>{{cite news |last=Katel |first=Peter |date=2009-05-08 |title=Hate Groups |volume=19 |issue=18 |pages=421–48 |publisher=[[CQ Researcher]]}} See "The Year in Hate" Southern Poverty Law Center, February 2009.</ref> In 2019, the organization's report showed a total of 1,020 hate groups, the highest number in 20 years, and a 7% increase from 2017 to 2018. The previous high was 1,018 in 2011, and the recent low point was 2014, when the list included 784 groups.  A rise in [[white nationalism|white nationalist]] groups from 100 in 2017 to 148 in 2018 was the most significant increase in the 2019 report.<ref name=usatoday2019 />

Since 2010 the term [[alt-right]], short for "alternative right", has come into usage.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lombroso, Daniel & |first1=Applebaum, Yoni |title='Hail Trump!': White Nationalists Salute the President Elect |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/ |access-date=17 December 2016 |publisher=The Atlantic |date=21 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Joseph |last=Goldstein |date=November 20, 2016 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-donald-trump.html |title=Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump's Election With a Salute: 'Heil Victory' |newspaper=New York Times |access-date=November 21, 2016}}</ref> This broad term includes a range of people who reject mainstream [[conservatism]] in favor of forms of conservatism that may embrace implicit or explicit [[racism]] or [[white supremacy]]. The alt-right is described as being "a weird mix of old-school [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazis]], conspiracy theorists, [[Anti-globalization movement|anti-globalists]], and young right-wing internet trolls—all united in the belief that white male identity is under attack by [[Multiculturalism|multicultural]], "[[Political correctness|politically correct]]" forces."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Staff |title=The Rise of the alt-right |url=https://theweek.com/articles/651929/rise-altright |access-date=17 December 2016 |publisher=The Week |date=1 October 2016}}</ref>