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Messaging and mobilization: Rebel groups, social media communication, and audience engagement
October 30, 2024Mobilization is central to the emergence, survival and success of armed groups challenging the state, and has lately expanded to new arenas with the rise of social media. Using a new dataset of rebel group Twitter use, we examined the topics contained in rebel group social media communications to understand how different messaging strategies impact ...
Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns
October 29, 2024Over the past decade, a large number of extremist and hate groups have turned to internet platforms to inspire mass violence. Currently, there is little reliable evidence on how such campaigns radicalize targeted audiences. We provide systematic, large-scale, microevidence on the effect of Islamic State propaganda on social media. We use several machine learning algorithms ...
Multi-Ideology, Multiclass Online Extremism Dataset, and Its Evaluation Using Machine Learning
October 29, 2024Social media platforms play a key role in fostering the outreach of extremism by influencing the views, opinions, and perceptions of people. These platforms are increasingly exploited by extremist elements for spreading propaganda, radicalizing, and recruiting youth. Hence, research on extremism detection on social media platforms is essential to curb its influence and ill effects. ...
From Bad to Worse: Algorithmic Amplification of Antisemitism and Extremism
October 29, 2024Do social media companies exacerbate antisemitism and hate through their own recommendation and amplification tools? We investigated how four of the biggest social media platforms treated users who searched for or engaged with content related to anti-Jewish tropes, conspiracy theories, and other topics. Three of them–Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter1 (now known as X after a ...
From online hate speech to offline hate crime: the role of inflammatory language in forecasting violence against migrant and LGBT communities
October 20, 2024Social media messages often provide insights into offline behaviors. Although hate speech proliferates rapidly across social media platforms, it is rarely recognized as a cybercrime, even when it may be linked to offline hate crimes that typically involve physical violence. This paper aims to anticipate violent acts by analyzing online hate speech (hatred, toxicity, and ...
Lutter contre le « terrorisme » sur les réseaux sociaux : usages d’une catégorie politique dans les discours de Meta, Google et Twitter
September 17, 2024Countering “terrorism” on social media: the use of a political category in the discourses of Meta, Google and Twitter La lucha contra el «terrorismo» en las redes sociales: el uso de un concepto político controvertido en las comunicaciones de Meta, Google y Twitter Depuis le début de la vague d’attentats de Daech en Europe et ...
Social Media and Radicalization: An Affordance Approach for Cross-Platform Comparison
September 14, 2024To accentuate which platform characteristics particularly foster radicalization and extremist dynamics, this contribution investigates the affordances of social media as delineated in contemporary literature, conducting a platform comparison encompassing Telegram, WhatsApp, and X (formerly Twitter). Based on a scoping review, 17 affordances identified from studies researching radicalization dynamics on social media were extracted and categorized. ...
Follow the Echo Chamber: Measuring Political Attitude Change and Media Effects on Twitter
August 21, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...