The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a lawsuit against the founder of white supremacist website The Daily Stormer on behalf of a Montana woman who was targeted in an anti-Semitic harassment campaign. The plaintiff, real estate agent Tanya Gersh, alleges that Andrew Anglin encouraged trolls to harass and threaten Gersh and her family in a series of Daily Stormer articles. The suit accuses Anglin of invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress, as well as violating Montana’s anti-intimidation rules.

This case stems from a December incident involving Sherry Spencer, a resident of Whitefish, Montana, and mother of alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer. Sherry Spencer accused Gersh, who is Jewish, of “extorting”…

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