Addressing hate crime in the 21st century: Trends, threats, and opportunities for intervention

A Farrell, S Lockwood - Annual Review of Criminology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Hate crimes, often referred to as bias-motivated crimes, have garnered greater public
attention and concern as political rhetoric in the United States and internationally has …

[PDF][PDF] Recommender systems and the amplification of extremist content

J Whittaker, S Looney, A Reed… - Internet Policy …, 2021 - plymouth.researchcommons.org
Policymakers have recently expressed concerns over the role of recommendation
algorithms and their role in forming “filter bubbles”. This is a particularly prescient concern in …

Ambassadors of ideology: A conceptualization and computational investigation of far-right influencers, their networking structures, and communication practices

S Rothut, H Schulze, J Hohner… - New Media & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Increasingly, influencers are employed to market not only products but also ideas and
beliefs. The far right has recognized the strategic potential of influencer communication to …

Political influencers on YouTube: Business strategies and content characteristics

TS Fischer, C Kolo, C Mothes - Media and Communication, 2022 - cogitatiopress.com
Young media users increasingly engage with public affairs via social media such as
YouTube, where content is increasingly produced by influencers who neither represent …

Hate speech in a telegram conspiracy channel during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

M Vergani, A Martinez Arranz… - Social Media+ …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Research has explored how the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a wave of conspiratorial
thinking and online hate speech, but little is empirically known about how different phases of …

Shockwavelike behavior across social media

PD Manrique, FY Huo, S El Oud, M Zheng, L Illari… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Online communities featuring “anti-X” hate and extremism, somehow thrive online despite
moderator pressure. We present a first-principles theory of their dynamics, which accounts …

Examining online indicators of extremism in violent right-wing extremist forums

R Scrivens, AI Osuna, SM Chermak… - Studies in Conflict & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Although many law enforcement and intelligence agencies are concerned about online
communities known to facilitate violent right-wing extremism, little is empirically known about …

Influence without metrics: Analyzing the impact of far-right users in an online discussion forum

M Åkerlund - Social Media+ Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The study presented in this article explores the processes through which influence takes
shape in eclectic online forums with few vanity metrics. Using a dataset of 7.5 million posts in …

Examining online indicators of extremism among violent and non-violent right-wing extremists

R Scrivens - Terrorism and political violence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Although there is an ongoing need for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to identify
and assess the online activities of violent extremists prior to their engagement in violence …

[PDF][PDF] Conversations with other (altright) women: How do altright female influencers narrate a farright identity

ME Kisyovaa… - Journal for …, 2022 - scholarlypublications …
In the process of shifting far-right ideas from the fringes to the centre of the political spectrum,
the alt-right has infiltrated online spaces to mainstream extremist ideas. As part of this …