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Paul Bois
Aug. 27, 2018

Last week, The Daily Wire reported that the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) had been stripped of receiving donations from both Visa and Mastercard under pressure from the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center, which had previously labeled the conservative think tank a hate group. After intense backlash from several media outlets, the two credit card companies have retracted their ban on the DHFC.

"We're under attack by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)," the DHFC said in an email to supporters last week. "For years, the SPLC has labeled the Freedom Center a hate group and tried to get organizations like Amazon, Facebook and Twitter to ban us and silence our message. Yesterday, SPLC finally convinced MasterCard and Visa to cut us off. Now we can't process donations from any major credit card companies."

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