Strategies for covering white supremacy and far-right extremists

White supremacists and other far-right extremist groups are among the greatest threats to domestic security. Denise-Marie Ordway outlines the top 10 strategies of social policy experts for managing the message about supremacist organisations.

In his testimony before a U.S. House committee last year, the assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, Michael C. McGarrity, referred to racially-motivated, violent extremist groups as “domestic terrorists.” He explained that violent white supremacists “have been responsible for the most lethal incidents among domestic terrorists in recent years, and the FBI assesses the threat of violence and lethality posed by racially motivated violent extremists will continue.