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White supremacist propaganda reached alarming levels across the U.S. in 2020, according to a new report that the Anti-Defamation League provided to The Associated Press.

The White House has struggled to defuse the growing criticism of President Donald Trump's initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists for their role in the violent protest on Aug. 12 in Virginia, insisting that his condemnation included all such groups.

Macedonia's Helsinki Committee registered 70 hate crimes last year, which was a rise of 60 per cent on the year before. However, the authorities raised criminal indictments in only 17 cases, the committee noted.

Hate groups are flourishing across the United States, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Nationwide, the SPLC identified 917 hate groups last year, an increase on 892 in 2015. The number of anti-Muslim groups in particular has risen steeply, almost tripling from 34 in 2015 to 101 in 2016.

Hacktivist collective Anonymous have threatened to release the names of around 1,000 Ku Klux Klan members as part of an operation against the white supremacist group in the US. The names, obtained from a Klan twitter account, will be released as part of Anonymous group’s anti-Klan Operation KKK.