CNN reports the ADL hate-symbol listing

2016

On 27 September 2016 the Anti-Defamation League added Pepe the Frog to its online database of hate symbols, citing the character's appropriation by extremists during the election. This CNN report is a same-week record of how that decision reached mainstream television news. The league's entry has always carried the caveat, still published today, that the majority of uses of Pepe have been and remain non-bigoted.