The AltRight Corporation is an alt-right organization based in Alexandria, Virginia. It began operations in January 2017, and runs the website "altright.com". The site claims to feature "the best writers and analysts" of the alt-right, and lists three founders: Daniel Friberg, Jason Jorjani, and Richard Spencer. Because of the involvement of Friberg and Spencer, the creation of the corporation has been described as "merger of the National Policy Institute, run by American white supremacist Richard Spencer, and an antisemitic Scandinavian media platform." At the time of its formation, it was reported that the corporation had been created in partnership with far-right groups from Sweden. The organization's purpose was reported by NBC News to be to "unite global factions of the so-called alt-right", but it has also been described as intended to create a "more ideological Breitbart News|Breitbart ". The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the AltRight Corporation to be a hate group.
Departures
In September 2017, AltRight Corporation co-founder Jason Jorjani claimed that in 2016, funders "very close" to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, had offered him funding to "infiltrate" the alt-right, with the intention of convincing its leaders to drop their white nationalism rhetoric, and move away from race-based politics, and this is the reason he affiliated himself with Spencer and the alt-right. In October 2017, Jorjani published an essay which was more explicit, claiming that a person he called "X" and Michael Bagley, the head of a private security and intelligence organization, both members of the Deep State, would arrange for the funding to create a corporation which would combine Spencer's National Policy Institute and Friberg's Arktos Media, as well as Henrik Palmgren's Red Ice Radio and Television network of Sweden. Jorjani wrote:
The funds for this investment into the Alt-Right Corporation, through yours truly, were going to be secured through a multi-billion dollar black budget for a classified project to be implemented by the Trump Administration.
Once the AltRightCorporation was founded, after spending months making speeches on behalf of the alt-right and public appearances with Richard Spencer, Jorjani found that influencing the movement was more difficult then he had thought it would be, and he resigned from the AltRight Corporation in August 2017, shortly after the violence at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Jorjani has since written the one of the reasons for his leaving was that he "watched the corporation that was my brainchild turn into a magnet for white trash." He also said that Richard Spencer is "smart in the sense of the word 'smartass.'" and that Spencer had "pretty much destroyed the alt-right brand" by his emphasis on race and "all kinds of other stupidity." In 2016, Arktos Media, which was co-founded by Swedish businessman Daniel Friberg, one of the other co-founders of the AltRight Corporation, announced in August 2018 that it had also departed from the AltRight Corporation in May 2018. Arktos wrote that "Our departure is not to be construed as a rupture with anyone involved in the Alt Right. We part ways amicably, and we wish nothing but the best to Richard Spencer and his team." With the departures of Jorjani and Friberg, Richard Spencer is the only co-founder left at the corporation. In August 2018, Greg Conte, a close ally of Spencer, resigned from multiple Spencer-related positions he held, including one at the AltRight Corporation.
