Mike Wendling is a

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journalist, with the job title US National Digital Reporter, and author of the book ''Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House''. He is a former editor of BBC Trending and was part of the team which covered the

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. In 2016, Wendling wrote about subjects including American right-wing social media star

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and a factory that was the first to outsource jobs away from the United States. He was also contacted by the American terrorist

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, and interviewed antifa activists and

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members in

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. He is based in

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and is originally from western

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