Turns out from the filing that one of the organizers of the 2017 unite the right rally and its logistics was an SPLC plant being paid $270k to stoke them with racist posts and ensure the event went big. A manufactured event
This reminds me of the plot to kidnap Michigan governor where it was majority informants propagating the plot.
For SPLC, was always surprised how institutions gobbled up there data as holy grail when it was surface level riddled with bias a basic high schooler could identify. Their 'hate maps' for example. Flaming red color scheme. Looked like a marketing deck