FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday that his agency is cutting all ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over its criticism of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. pic.twitter.com/R6IKpSTfuP — FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 1, 2025It marks a major change in the FBI as Comey at one point described the agency as “in love” with the ADL. “The FBI was taking their ‘hate group’ definitions from ADL, which is why FBI was investigating Charlie Kirk [and] Turning Point, instead of his murderers,” Musk wrote on X. We also saw a number of entries… pic.twitter.com/1Wj7hy6sLV — ADL (@ADL) September 30, 2025“With over 1,000 entries written over many years, the ADL Glossary of Extremism has served as a source of high-level information on a wide range of topics for years. At the same time, an increasing number of entries in the Glossary were outdated,” the ADL wrote on X in response to criticism.