Some of the country’s largest corporations, such as BlackRock, are no longer using the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “hate groups” as a vetting tool in their corporate giving programs, according to a conservative coalition that has been pushing major U.S. businesses to abandon SPLC-based investment screening. Over the past year of the coalition’s […]
Some of the country’s largest corporations, such as BlackRock, are no longer using the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “hate groups” as a vetting tool in their corporate giving programs, according to a conservative coalition that has been pushing major U.S. businesses to abandon SPLC-based investment screening.
Over the past year of the coalition’s pressure campaign, nine companies once reliant on the SPLC as an authoritative resource to judge causes worthy of financial support have reportedly expunged from their respective donation portals a filter designed to screen 501(c)(3) organizations against the SPLC’s so-called “Extremist Files.”
