Millions of supporters of Donald Trump flocked to the far-right social media platform, where hate speech and calls for violence thrive. The US Capitol insurrection could be the platform’s undoing.
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Millions of supporters of Donald Trump have flocked to the far-right social media platform Parler, where hate speech thrives.
School reforms pushed by French President Emmanuel Macron are aimed at pushing Muslim students into public schools. An expert explains why this may be the wrong approach.
People typically underestimate how much white nationalism goes on in the military, but when they learn the truth, they’re concerned.
Extremists are playing on people’s health fears to normalise their views.
The increasing visibility of a wide range of militia and vigilante groups has repeatedly caught local communities and national leaders off guard.
A would-be speaker at the Republican National Convention was yanked for encouraging people to read up on a hoax that has long been discredited but refuses to die.
Here’s what you need to know about the largely right-wing social media platform creeping into headlines.
The platform also took down another 2,000 communities, including left-leaning groups. The move comes just months ahead of the 2020 US presidential election.
Legally designating domestic extremist groups as terrorist organizations – as some in the US advocate now – will have limited benefits, if any at all.
They’re not really protesting – they’re hoping to find an opportunity to spark violence and trigger a war between black and white Americans.
Incels, or ‘involuntary celibate’ men, are increasingly radicalising online and committing acts of violence against women. New research explores ways the government can combat it.
A trove of essays long forgotten in the archives of the Hoover Institution give insight into what attracted everyday women to extremist ideology.
ASIO has warned that far-right groups pose an elevated threat to national security. Parliament needs more oversight of how Home Affairs decides which terror groups are listed on the national register.
My assessment is that there are about 150 to 300 core right-wing activists in New Zealand. This might sound modest – but proportionate to population, it’s similar to extremist numbers in Germany.
You can’t demand rebellion for long without inviting the suspicion of the state.
Manitoba faces pressing facing demands for new ways of forming relationships with young people to counter hate.
Families of those at risk of extremism need to be supported, not judged.
To understand the threat better, we need to devote more resources to monitoring and tracking far-right forums and social networks and a national database tracking hate crimes.
Extremism and terrorism should not be simply interlinked.
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Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
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Professor in Public Policy and Management, The Open University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Director of Research, Academic Development, and Innovation at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury
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Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology, City, University of London, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow in Social Psychology, Georgia State University
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Adjunct Professor at the Political Science department, University of Winnipeg
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Pace University
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Senior Research Associate, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield
