- Feb022023Kristy Milligan
The Wieambilla Siege and Conspiracy-Fuelled Violent Extremism in Australia
inIntroduction Gun violence is rare in Australia. In response to the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, Australia implemented strict gun…
- Jan312023Dr. Gerard Gill
Millenarianism in Australia’s ‘Freedom Movement’
inIntroduction In December 2022, a six-hour siege in Wieambilla, Queensland, ended with six people dead. Police had attended a property…
- Jan272023Sarah Cammarata
Mainstreaming Far-Right Conspiracies: Éric Zemmour’s Discourse as a Case Study
inIntroduction Once relegated to the ‘fringe,’ conspiracies and narratives promulgated by members of the far-right movement have now moved into…
- Jan252023Justin Grandinetti
Political Outrage Machines: Exploring the Algorithms Structuring Conspiracy TikTok
inThe short-form streaming audio-video app TikTok has become near-synonymous with controversy—in no small part because of the spread of conspiratorial…
- Jan182023Julia Kupper
The Reichsbürger Coup: How the German COVID-19 Denier Scene and Anti-Lockdown Movement Became a Breeding Ground for Terrorism
inIntroduction In the early hours of 7 December 2022, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office in Germany (der Generalbundesanwalt) arrested twenty-four…
- Aug192022Mike Rains
How QAnon is Dealing With The FBI Raid on Trump
inWhen the FBI executed their search warrant on Mar-A-Lago on August 8th, QAnon was all over the news. Their first…
- Apr072022Hannah Rose
Zelenskyy, ‘Denazification’ and the Redirection of Holocaust Victimhood
inAs with many global crises, the online far-right is attempting to frame Russia’s invasion of Ukraine through their existing worldview.…
- Mar212022Beatriz Buarque
Why Some Far-Right Circles are Contributing to Vladimir Putin’s Disinformation Campaign
inA few weeks ago, one of the main Brazilian far-right platforms responsible for producing documentaries, promoting books, organising events, and…
- Feb242022Dr. Alexis Henshaw
Communication Technologies, Conspiracies, and Disinformation in Latin America: COVID-19 and Beyond
inThe topic of Spanish-language misinformation and disinformation has received increasing attention in recent years, with a special focus on the…
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