Days after cutting ties to the Anti-Defamation League, America's oldest group dedicated to combating anti-semitism, FBI director Kash Patel also denounced the Southern Poverty Law Center. The bureau will no longer work with it in any way, he writes.

"The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine," FBI Director Kash Patel told conservative site The Daily Signal Friday. "Their so-called hate map has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence. That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership."

The SPLC, like the ADL, tracks and researches extremism in the U.S. Its focus is on white supremacists and other hate groups, starting with the Ku Klux Klan and later expanding its efforts to count

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