Internet meme Pepe the Frog has found himself in a database of hate symbols. The Anti-Defamation League says recent appropriations of the smirking green frog as Adolf Hitler, a Klansman and numerous ...

Pepe the frog, the once-innocent cartoon that was appropriated as a mascot of the alt-right, is at the center of a new legal battle. Matt Furie, the character's creator is suing InfoWars, the media ...

“Boys Club” cover featuring Pepe the Frog, by Matt Furie. There are approximately 250 images, characters and illustrations in the Anti-Defamation League’s database of hate symbols. Last month, a ...

If you’ve wondered how a friendly cartoon frog suddenly became a white supremacist symbol, here is a quick explainer. Pepe the frog wasn’t always a Nazi sympathizer. The friendly amphibian started off ...

Still, it’s not entirely an accident that Pepe has been coopted in this way. For well over 100 years American artists, both racists and anti-racists, have found animal cartoons an effective way to ...

The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in a rebuke to far-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol. A Pepe cartoon ...

LOS ANGELES (CN) – Right-wing conspiracy website Infowars agreed to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit Monday by turning over profits it made from selling an alt-right poster featuring artist ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about digital culture, memes, and visual media trends. It’s internet lore that President Donald Trump was “memed into ...

Pepe the Frog, a simple cartoon character born 13 years ago, has appeared in countless guises over the years. Feel-good Pepe, sad Pepe, sly Pepe, befuddled Pepe, Pepe spouting all sorts of witticisms ...