White Supremacy
Red Pill Stories: British Neo-Nazis’ Narratives of Radicalization
May 7, 2026Patriotic Alternative (PA) is one of Britain’s largest fascist organizations. PA members have served prison sentences for terrorism and hate crime offenses and MPs have called for the organization to be proscribed under counter-terrorism legislation. This article employs a cultural and narrative criminological approach to analyze PA activists’ accounts of their political journeys into the ...
Understanding Online Recruitment and Mobilization Messaging by Active Club Network Content Curators
May 7, 2026This study examines how racially and ethnically motivated extremists use online platforms for recruitment and mobilization through a thematic analysis of messaging about the nature and meaning of offline engagement in extremism found on Telegram. The analysis draws on text and image data from posts shared by administrators of Telegram channels associated with the white ...
Challenges of Deplatforming Extremist Online Movements: A Machine-Learning Approach
December 5, 2024Online extremist movements are increasingly using social media communities to share content, spread their ideologies, recruit members, and mobilize offline activities. In recent years, mainstream platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, have adopted policies to remove or deplatform some of these movements. Yet online extremists are well-known for their abilities to adapt, self-censor, and migrate across ...
White supremacists anonymous: how digital media emotionally energize far-right movements
December 4, 2024Digital media platforms have been implicated in the recent rise of far-right extremism. This study proposes that these platforms afford emotional processes that lie at the core of far-right movements. Drawing on Randall Collins’ interactional framework and the literature on cultural trauma, we investigate the emotional processes triggered by traumatic experiences within far-right online communities. ...
Testing a probabilistic model of desistance from online posting in a right-wing extremist forum: distinguishing between violent and non-violent users
October 30, 2024Little is known about online behaviours of violent extremists generally or differences compared to non-violent extremists who share ideological beliefs. Even less is known about desistance from posting behaviour. A sample of 99 violent and non-violent right-wing extremists to compare their online patterns of desistance within a sub-forum of the largest white supremacy web-forum was ...
The “chanification” of white supremacist extremism
October 2, 2024Much research has focused on the role of the alt-right in pushing far-right narratives into mainstream discourse. In this work, we focus on the alt-right’s effects on extremist narratives themselves. From 2012 to 2017, we find a rise in alt-right, 4chan-like discourse styles across multiple communication platforms known for white supremacist extremism, such as Stormfront. ...
Phishing for Nazis: Conspiracies, Anonymous Communications and White Supremacy Networks on the Dark Web
August 22, 2024In 1993, a largely forgotten neo-Nazi named Milton Kleim Jr. launched (what was yet to be called a website titled) “Aryan News Network” with the proto-internet platform USENET. Building upon more than a decade of revolutionary new communications technologies—embraced early and often by right-wing extremists—this peer-to-peer tool was intended as a form of ‘guerrilla warfare’ ...
The Importance of Proportionality and Transparency in the Moderation of Borderline Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content
August 12, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...