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Posts tagged with ‘Far-Right’

  • Jan182021

    Redpill the “Parler Refugees”: White Supremacist Strategies for Radicalising Trump Supporters on Telegram

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    On 6 January, insurrectionists stormed the US capitol and disrupted the confirmation of election results in the House and Senate;…

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  • Jan182021

    Beyond the ‘LULZ’: Memifying Murder as ‘Meaningful’ Gamification in Far-Right Content

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    Research on the relationship between video games and extremist propaganda has been increasing in the last few years in both…

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  • Jan152021

    Attack Dates as Terrorist Messaging

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    In the aftermath of the violent political events of 6 January 2021 at the US Capitol, a cascade of governmental…

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  • Jan152021

    Why Deplatforming the Extreme Right is a Lot More Challenging than Deplatforming IS

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    In the wake of the mob violence at the US Capitol last week, Amarnath Amarasingam published a 17-part Twitter thread…

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  • Jan132021

    Ashli Babbitt: A Far-Right Martyr of the Insurrection

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    On 6 January, during the insurrection on Capitol Hill, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot in the neck by Capitol police…

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  • Jan112021

    From #ArsonEmergency to #DanLiedPeopleDied: How Extremist Messaging Co-Opts Emergency Events on the Australian Twittersphere

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    Australia experienced two major emergency events in 2020, starting off with the summer bushfires, followed shortly after by the coronavirus…

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  • Jan072021

    3D-Printed Guns, Untraceable Firearms, and Domestic Violent Extremist Actors

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    While uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic continues to fuel a massive increase in domestic gun sales, a supporter of the…

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  • Jan062021

    Eco-Fascism: More than Tree-Loving Terrorists

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    The climate and ecological crisis was one of the dominating issues in 2019. Boosted by the visible environmental and ecological…

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  • Dec172020

    ‘Crisis and a Loss of Control’ – Digital Extremism in German-Speaking Countries During the COVID-19 Crisis

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    COVID-19 and the Extremist Hijacking of Anti-Lockdown Protests The COVID-19 pandemic has led to drastic changes to our lives and…

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  • Dec142020

    After Christchurch: Mapping Online Right-Wing Extremists

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    For all the hate, sometimes extending to talk of violence, the extremist milieu feature is also a highly social space.…

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