October marked one year of 1792 Exchange’s work to show corporate America the risks associated with using the SPLC’s “hate list” and how its designations have been used to discriminate against conservative and Christian organizations in corporate charitable giving programs.
BlackRock, Salesforce, Mastercard, Texas Instruments, AT&T, Nvidia, Microsoft, American Express, and DoorDash are among the corporations that have scrapped the SPLC “hate groups” filter, the 1792 Exchange announced on Oct. 22.
Alongside the Heritage Foundation and Alliance Defending Freedom, the 1792 Exchange, a nonprofit organization formed to steer “woke” corporate governance policies back toward ideological neutrality, is leading the coalition’s efforts to end corporate reliance on the SPLC’s black book of purported bigots.
As extensively reported by the Daily Signal, many employers systematically — and thus may unintentionally — blacklist conservative nonprofit organizations from their employee gift-matching programs through a third-party corporate generosity platform that installs the SPLC filter.
As a result, even mainstream conservative groups, including Christian charities, are blocked from appearing on these middleman charitable giving dashboards because the nonprofit organizations have been flagged by the SPLC’s “Hate Watch” staff. For example, the parental rights group Defending Education is tagged under the SPLC’s “white supremacy” section for opposing racially exclusive educational opportunities.
According to the 1792 Exchange’s year-end recap of its awareness campaign, five other companies including Meta, Morgan Stanley, Citi, McDonald’s, and Philip Morris International have publicly confirmed that they do not use “politicized hate-group screening to determine charitable eligibility,” while Alphabet and PayPal have noticeably distanced themselves from the SPLC.
The full article can be found in Washington Examiner.