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The Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance released a report recently titled Digital Terrorism and Hate 2010. It documents a 20 percent spike in Hate and Terror groups, sites, and games on the internet over the course of the last year.

According to CNET news, there are now 11,500 different sites, networks, and forums that directly promote hate and terror on the internet. This is the 12th year the report has been released.

One Facebook group openly calls for death to the gays. Another one attracts fans who hate "faggots, whores, and cops." A Facebook poll (now deleted) asked whether President Barack Obama should be killed.

One of the games called Border Patrol has the user shoot Mexican stereotypes at the border, including villains such as the "drug smuggler", Mexican Nationalist, and the "Breeder". In another game, the objective is to bomb victims of the Haiti earthquake.

One forum posting in Arabic detailed instructions for people wanting to carry out Jihad operations in the United States.

People are listening. Jihad Jane utilized YouTube and MySpace in her quest to kill the Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed. James von Brunn, the man who shot up the Holocaust Memorial Museum kept a Web site called the Holy Western Empire and posted on the FreeRepublic.

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One White Nationalist website whose stated goal is "the creation of a Jew-free, racially exclusive White ethnostate in North America" even went so far as to brag about the findings of the report. In a call to arms, they instructed their readers to "start exploiting social media to get our message out." They are specifically targeting Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Twitter, and Youtube.

Despite the rise in right wing hate in America as demonstrated by the top 50 conservative websites, the explosion of hate sites on the internet is a worldwide phenomena.

CNN reports:
"The spike is not in traditional Web sites in the United States," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. "It's more global and almost all in the social-networking area."