US sees surge in extremist mass killings

White supremacist ideology responsible for most murders in 2022, report finds

Many mass shootings perpetrated by extremists in the United States last year had ties to right-wing extremism and were often fueled by white supremacist ideology, the Anti-Defamation League says.

The ADL is a Jewish NGO in the US that bills itself as "the leading anti-hate organization in the world". Its Center on Extremism, which tracks killings linked to various forms of extremism in the country, said in its annual report that right-wing extremists killed 25 people in 12 separate acts in the US last year.

"It is not an exaggeration to say that we live in an age of extremist mass killings," the report said.