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Posts tagged with ‘North America’

  • Nov292022

    Fanning the Flames of Hate: The Transnational Diffusion of Online Anti-LGBT+ Rhetoric and Offline Mobilisation  

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    This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series in partnership with Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. This series…

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  • Apr052022

    From Orange to Red: An Assessment of the Dark MAGA Trend in Far-Right Online Spaces

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    The Online Far-Right The far-right online goes through aesthetic and organisational shifts in waves. From Woods & Hahner’s Make America…

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  • Mar142022

    “Victims of the Holocaust”: The ‘Freedom Convoy’ Subreddits as Spaces for Antisemitism and Far-Right Radicalisation

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    In its 2021 TE-SAT report, Europol explained that since the beginning of the pandemic “right-wing extremists exploited COVID-19 to support…

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  • Feb182022

    Crowdfunding and Protest Financing: Emergency Law in Canada

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    Since late January 2022, protesters have been occupying the city of Ottawa in an extended demonstration against vaccine mandates. The…

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  • Nov182021

    Understanding Accelerationist Narratives: The Boogaloo

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    “You wanna create f***ing some instability while the Virginia situation is happening, make other things happen. Derail some rail lines…

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  • Jul292021

    The Race War May No Longer Be Digitised: James Mason’s Designation as a Terrorist Entity in Canada

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    Almost two decades into the War on Terror era, hundreds of designated terrorist entities operate globally. Far from posing a…

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  • May062021

    “I will never forget this for as long as I live”: Social Learning at the Capitol Hill Siege

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    “Today was indeed a historical day for sure. I will never forget this for as long as I live… I’m…

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  • Apr292021

    QAnon Women in Politics Part Two: QAnon Careers

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    Over the last year, the QAnon conspiracy has cemented itself as part of the furniture of the American political landscape,…

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  • Apr282021

    QAnon Women in Politics Part One: The QAnon Candidates

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    Content warning: discussion of rape and sexual violence statistics and child abuse. The 2020 United States election marked QAnon’s formal…

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  • Mar182021

    Rhetoric of Hate: A Case Study in Anti-East Asian Bigotry

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    On 16 March 2021, a man carried out a series of shootings at three massage parlours in Atlanta, Georgia which…

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