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The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small Newsroom finalist

Open-Source Extremist Identifications

About the Project

Using a variety of cutting-edge, open-source investigative techniques, the Texas Observer‘s Special Investigative Correspondent Steven Monacelli–with help from Tristan Lee of Bellingcat in two of the three stories submitted–has identified: neo-Nazi perpetrators of a hate crime in Central Texas; the operators of four major neo-Nazi X accounts; and revealed that an ICE prosecutor was operating a white supremacist X account.