Michael S. Waltman

Michael Waltman is Associate Professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on texts that are important to hate groups in the United States and right wing extremist globally. This discourse is sometimes recognized as hate speech, propaganda, and disinformation. Regardless of the moniker, he is interested in how these forms of discourse are used as a persuasive resource to encourage violence, to recruit, to socialize, and to perpetuate hateful ideologies.