Mike Wendling is a BBC journalist[1] and author of the book Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House.[2] He is editor of BBC Trending and was part of the team which covered the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[3][4] In 2016, Wendling wrote about subjects including American right-wing social media star Tomi Lahren[5] and a factory that was the first to outsource jobs away from the United States.[6]
He was also contacted by the American terrorist Joshua Ryne Goldberg,[7] and interviewed antifa activists and Proud Boys members in Portland, Oregon.[8]
He is based in London and is originally from western New York State.[9]