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Alabama authorities are investigating how white supremacist messages appeared on a digital road sign along a highway busy with Memorial Day traffic. Motorists on Interstate 65 near Clanton called state troopers to report the words “Patriot Front” and “reclaim America” were flashing on an electronic sign.

The Patriot Front is a violent hate group that propounds the racist great replacement theory of white Americans and Europeans being supplanted by immigrants. John McWilliams, the regional public information officer for the Alabama department of transport, said a contractor’s mobile sign in Chilton County appeared to have been hacked.

A citizen alerted an Alabama state trooper barracks. They responded and turned the message board off.  Two weeks ago, a similar incident happened in Florida. A highway board was there also hacked. “Kill All Gays” was inserted over a road work warning. 

(From the Guardian.