Activists Use Online Sleuthing to Identify Violent White Supremacists in Charlottesville

The white supremacists who demonstrated over the week weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, may have felt their numbers guaranteed anonymity—but social-media users have been poring over images of the rally to identify those participants who engaged in violent clashes with counterprotesters.

The volunteer sleuthing started on Saturday morning, hours after the infamous tiki-torch march through the University of Virginia campus. “If you recognize any of the Nazis marching in #Charlottesville,” wrote a Twitter user named Logan Smith who runs the @YesYoureRacist account, “send me their names/profiles and I’ll make them famous.”