mass shooting
Investigative Report on the role of online platforms in the tragic mass shooting in Buffalo on May 14, 2022
September 18, 2023The mass shooting in and around the Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York on May 14, 2022 that claimed the lives of ten individuals and injured three others was all the more horrific because of the white supremacist ideological motivation that fueled it and the shooter’s meticulous planning. The disturbing reality is that this ...
The ‘tarrant effect’: what impact did far-right attacks have on the 8chan forum?
September 18, 2023This paper analyses the impact of a series of mass shootings committed in 2018–2019 by right-wing extremists on 8chan/pol, a prominent far-right online forum. Using computational methods, it offers a detailed examination of how attacks trigger shifts in both forum activity and content. We find that while each shooting is discussed by forum participants, their ...