The AltRight Corporation is an alt-right organization based in Alexandria, Virginia . It began operations in January 2017, and runs the website "altright.com". The site claims to feature "the best writers and analysts" of the alt-right, and lists three founders: Daniel Friberg , Jason Jorjani , and Richard Spencer . ^[1] Because of the involvement of Friberg and Spencer, the creation of the corporation has been described as "merger of the National Policy Institute , run by American white supremacist Richard Spencer, and Arktos Media , an antisemitic Scandinavian media platform." ^[2] At the time of its formation, it was reported that the corporation had been created in partnership with far-right groups from Sweden . ^[3] The organization's purpose was reported by NBC News to be to "unite global factions of the so-called alt-right", ^[4] but it has also been described as intended to create a "more ideological Breitbart [News] ". ^[3]

The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the AltRight Corporation to be a hate group . ^[5]

Departures [ edit ]

In September 2017, AltRight Corporation co-founder Jason Jorjani claimed that in 2016, funders "very close" to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump , had offered him funding to "infiltrate" the alt-right, with the intention of convincing its leaders to drop their white nationalism rhetoric, and move away from race-based politics, and this is the reason he affiliated himself with Spencer and the alt-right. ^[6]

Once the AltRightCorporation was founded, after spending months making speeches on behalf of the alt-right and public appearances with Richard Spencer, Jorjani said that influencing the movement was more difficult than he had thought it would be. ^[6] He resigned from the AltRight Corporation in August 2017, ^[7] shortly after the violence at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia . Jorjani has since written the one of the reasons for his leaving was that he "watched the corporation that was my brainchild turn into a magnet for white trash." ^[8] He also said that Richard Spencer is "smart in the sense of the word 'smartass.'" and that Spencer had "pretty much destroyed the alt-right brand" by his emphasis on race and "all kinds of other stupidity." ^[6]

In 2018 Arktos Media, which was co-founded Friberg, announced that it had also departed from the AltRight Corporation. ^{[9] [ non-primary source needed ]} With the departures of Jorjani and Friberg, Richard Spencer was the only co-founder left at the corporation.

In August 2018, Greg Conte, a close ally of Spencer, resigned from multiple Spencer-related positions he held, including one at the AltRight Corporation. ^[10]

See also [ edit ]

• National Policy Institute

References [ edit ]