Mike Wendling is a BBC journalist, with the job title US National Digital Reporter, and author of the book Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House.
[1] He is a former editor of BBC Trending and was part of the team which covered the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
[2][3] In 2016, Wendling wrote about subjects including American right-wing social media star Tomi Lahren[4] and a factory that was the first to outsource jobs away from the United States.
[5] He was also contacted by the American terrorist Joshua Ryne Goldberg,[6] and interviewed antifa activists and Proud Boys members in Portland, Oregon.
[7] He is based in Chicago and is originally from western New York State.