Mike Wendling

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. He is a former editor of BBC Trending and was part of the team which covered the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In 2016, Wendling wrote about subjects including American right-wing social media star Tomi Lahren and a factory that was the first to outsource jobs away from the United States.

He was also contacted by the American terrorist Joshua Ryne Goldberg, and interviewed antifa activists and Proud Boys members in Portland, Oregon.

He is based in Chicago and is originally from western New York State.