far right
How Far-Right Online Spaces Use Mainstream Media To Spread Their Ideology
July 25, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Lessons from the Decline of the American Racist Skinheads and Emerging Online Trends of the Far-Right
July 25, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Unmasking the Dark Side of Humour: Far-Right Strategic Mainstreaming in Memes
July 23, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
What is Britain First? The Far-Right Group Retweeted by Donald Trump
July 16, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Despite short-term increases in arrests, counter-extremism powers need to do more to tackle the far-right
July 9, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Telegram as a Buttress: How far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists are expanding their infrastructures via Telegram
September 18, 2023The ISD Germany study on the extreme right-wing use of Telegram serves as a complementary text to the “Escape routes” report. In it, the research team examined links to other platforms, which were shared on the controversial messenger service and were disseminated in the channels of right-wing extremists, right-wing radicals and conspiracy ideologues in the ...
The European Far Right and Islamist Extremism on Twitter: From Radicalisation to Political Participation
September 18, 2023This article explores the results of a study on media participation on Twitter in 2018/2019 perceived as contributing to far right and Islamist radical ideologies, in 7 European countries. By combining online ethnography and big data approaches, we see that online far right extremism in Europe is active and ranks are growing, while Islamist extremism ...
From solidarity to blame game: A computational approach to comparing far-right and general public Twitter discourse in the aftermath of the Hanau terror attack
September 18, 2023Terror attacks are followed by public shock and disorientation. Previous research has found that people use social media to collectively negotiate responses, interpretations, and sense-making in the aftermath of terror attacks. However, the role of ideologically motivated discussions and their relevance to the overall discourse have not been studied. This paper ad-dresses this gap and ...