Ed Pertwee

Academic researching reactionary politics and antiscience. Currently investigating #Covid19 #disinformation and #vaccinehesitancy @vaccine_trust. Views my own.

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

Delighted that my article on anti-Muslim groups in Europe and North America, their influence on the Trump presidency, and relationship to the wider far right is now available open access in @ERSjournal. It was written during an @ESRC Postdoc @LSEsociology last year.

[Ethnic and Racial Studies @ERSjournal]

#ERSnew
Donald Trump, the anti-Muslim far right and the new conservative revolution https://t.co/Knqwdr1RL6

Author@ed_pertwee explores the anti-Muslim counter-jihad movement, its influence on the European and American far right and links to the Trump administration @LSEsociology

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

@MollyDragiewicz Thanks Molly

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@aaronzwinter @GretaJasser @jordan_mcswiney @zsavvas90 Thanks Aaron!

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New by @GretaJasser @jordan_mcswiney @zsavvas90 and me: ‘Welcome to #GabFam’: Far-right virtual community on Gab https://t.co/LwItNSDEVx

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

Some key findings are summarised in this recent piece for @LowyInstitute https://t.co/oAJmhWkiaw

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

Delighted this is finally out, almost 3 years to the day after we first came up with the idea for the article over dinner at the ECPR summer school on concepts and methods for studying the far right (huge thanks to @AndreaPirro and @PietroCastelliG for organising!)

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

@LuGuangMing Thanks Lucia.

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@L_deJonge Very sorry to hear this Léonie. Hope you're okay.

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

@marinebss @L_deJonge @CaterinaFroio @GretaJasser @mrooduijn @_mlorimer @SLdeLange Thanks Marine.

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

New opinion piece by @DrPPaterson and me: Will the UK’s decision to offer an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine for under-30s impact vaccine up-take?

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

Will the UK’s decision to offer an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine for under-30s, following safety signals, impact vaccine up-take, ask @DrPPaterson and @ed_pertwee @LSHTM_Vaccines @LSHTM #vaccinehesitancy
@vaccine_trust https://t.co/JckL0N7g8i

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

An unintended but predictable downstream effect of recent social media bans: the entry of new / better-resourced players into the far-right alternative social media market. https://t.co/Zfsvqob2ag

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

A distinctive feature of far-right revisionist history: the gap between ambition and ability.

[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

People celebrating a return to normal should understand that ‘normal’ is what got us here.

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

@alex_callinicos Thanks Alex.

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Another piece on far-right alternative media spaces since January 6th, featuring comments from @GretaJasser and me. (In French)

[Le Soir @lesoir]

Entre parano et complot, plongée dans les réseaux alternatifs des pro-Trump https://t.co/qVxNGsZ7HJ

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

@marinebss @GretaJasser @C4ARR It was a pleasure!

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

"Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube bans have sent Trump's followers in search of new platforms to share their views." @GretaJasser and I were interviewed for this piece drawing on our research on far-right alternative media. https://t.co/OE21xOacNb

[VOX-Pol @VOX_Pol]

Recent events in US have increased traffic to our Blog. A top-performing post is @jordan_mcswiney and @GretaJasser’s Nov. 2020 post on the role of #Gab in connecting supporters of US President Trump across the ideological spectrum, which has 10,000+ views. https://t.co/XXvLNtIw18

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

The biggest QAnon group on Gab now boasts 139k members, having had 51k in early December and 24k in early November.

The second biggest has 103k, when it had 33k a month ago.

These are the kinds of numbers we saw on the biggest QAnon Facebook groups before they were banned.

[Ed Pertwee @ed_pertwee]

Serial grifter Andrew Wakefield is back. via @gorskon https://t.co/jXM6ntGcGF

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

The violence in Washington shocked the world and caught the authorities off guard.

But for anyone who had been watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of US cities - it came as no surprise.

We tell the story of 65 days that led to chaos.
https://t.co/UvUKzv8uMJ