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We speak to the woman behind the documentary exposing the many new faces of the far right - from rioters, to politicians, to foundations promoting dodgy science.

Kevin Gopal
Dec 10, 2024
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It’s a tense enough moment on its own. HOPE not Hate’s undercover journalist Harry Shukman is filming covertly inside an Athens restaurant, hoping, over a dry plate of fish, to extract the name of a Silicon Valley funder of the European far right.

Then, his handler Patrik Hermansson decides he too needs undercover pictures of the dinner, and strolls past…

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