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The FBI has cut ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has a long history of labeling its political opponents as “hate groups” amid renewed concerns about political violence in the United States.

In a statement posted on X Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that all of the federal law enforcement agency’s ties with the SPLC “have been officially terminated.”

“The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” wrote Patel, adding, “Their so-called ‘hate map’ has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence.”

While Patel did not provide specific examples of how the SPLC’s hate map has “inspired violence,” two of the organizations included on the map, which is a database of co

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