{"id":72299,"date":"2026-04-21T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/us-doj-launches-investigation-into-southern-poverty-law-center\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:00:56","slug":"us-doj-launches-investigation-into-southern-poverty-law-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/us-doj-launches-investigation-into-southern-poverty-law-center\/","title":{"rendered":"US DoJ launches investigation into Southern Poverty Law Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice department\u2019s focus seems to be on SPLC\u2019s prior use of paid informants to monitor hate groups, group\u2019s CEO says<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a prominent civil rights organization, the group\u2019s CEO said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Fair, the CEO of the SPLC, said the details of the investigation were not entirely clear, though \u201cthe focus appears to be on the SPLC\u2019s prior use of paid confidential informants to gather credible intelligence on extremely violent groups\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/21\/doj-southern-poverty-law-center-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice department\u2019s focus seems to be on SPLC\u2019s prior use of paid informants to monitor hate groups, group\u2019s CEO says Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a prominent civil rights &#8230; <a title=\"US DoJ launches investigation into Southern Poverty Law Center\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/us-doj-launches-investigation-into-southern-poverty-law-center\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US DoJ launches investigation into Southern Poverty Law Center\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}