Mike Wendling

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Mike Wendling is a BBC journalist, with the job title US National Digital Reporter, and author of the books Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House [1] and Day of Reckoning How the Far Right Declared War on Democracy. [2] [3] In 2016, Wendling wrote about subjects including American right-wing social media star Tomi Lahren [4] and a factory that was the first to outsource jobs away from the United States. [5]

He was also contacted by the American terrorist Joshua Ryne Goldberg, [6] and interviewed antifa activists and Proud Boys members in Portland, Oregon. [7]

He is based in Chicago and is originally from western New York State. [8] [9]

Wendling co-founded the BBC's 'disinformation unit', from which the podcaster and conspiracy investigator Marianna Spring emerged. [10]

References

  1. ↑ Cooper, Ryan (6 April 2018). "A Political Movement, Defining Itself by What It Hates". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Day of Reckoning". Pluto Press. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  3. ↑ Bartlett, Jamie (23 April 2018). "Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House review – in search of a rightwing rabble". The Observer. ISSN   0029-7712 . Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  4. ↑ Wendling, Mike (30 November 2016). "Tomi Lahren: the young Republican who's bigger than Trump on Facebook". BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  5. ↑ Wendling, Mike (4 November 2016). "US Election 2016: The factory that symbolises Donald Trump's appeal". BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  6. ↑ Wendling, Mike (21 September 2015). "Neo-Nazi, radical feminist and violent jihadist - all at once". BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  7. ↑ Wendling, Mike (8 March 2019). "Proud Boys and antifa: When a right-wing activist met a left-wing anti-fascist". BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  8. ↑ Wendling, Mike (30 November 2016). "How the fairytale of New York can become a nightmare". BBC. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  9. ↑ Fraser, Katie (20 October 2023). "Pluto Press lands Wendling's 'chilling' exposé of the far right". The Bookseller. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  10. ↑ "About". Mike Wendling. Retrieved 11 September 2025.


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