extremist messaging
The Ecology of Extremists’ Communications: Messaging Effectiveness, Social Environments and Individual Attributes
September 18, 2023Many prevention and countering of violent extremism experts place too much emphasis on the radicalising power of online mass distributed messaging by violent extremist groups. Instead, Nafees Hamid argues that radicalisation takes place in a social ecology within which the messaging of terrorist groups plays only a small role. This article shows that people are ...