Center for the Study of Internet Extremism

Studying extremism, radicalization, disinformation, propaganda, and other misuse of the Internet.

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

It doesn't seem like @SpotifyCares about radicalizing people by providing a platform for conspiracy theorists.

[Nathan Bernard @nathanTbernard]

Joe Rogan hosted far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his podcast today. They pushed anti-vaxx conspiracies and broadcasted banned Infowars videos. Rogan continuing to platform these far-right sickos is incredibly gross and dangerous.

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

Drove across town to buy the last copy of @chick_in_kiev's Culture Overlords.

Buy this book!

It's important to support people who do the difficult work of infiltrating extremist cultures, and Talia does a great job of describing how various extremist ideologies interact online.

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

LIVE NOW: The Real Facebook Oversight Board https://t.co/IbjyHudW4X

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

Fact check: nope.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Facebook insists that it has learned its lesson from the 2016 U.S. presidential election and is no longer a conduit for misinformation, voter suppression and election disruption. Experts and even some Facebook employees have their doubts. https://t.co/aYK1XPbNcS

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

We stan.

[. @swordsjew]

"White supremacists dehumanize you so successfully that in order to even begin to address the way that they work, the way that they operate, what their beliefs are, you have to dehumanize a part of yourself to even engage." -@EmilyGorcenski https://t.co/BG615QHqHK

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

This is 100% the fault of companies like @Facebook, @Twitter, and @YouTube.

There have always been conspiracy theories, but they've never spread so quickly, so broadly, and affected people so deeply.

[Donie O'Sullivan @donie]

Video spreading on social media of a simple crease on Joe Biden’s shirt is fueling a conspiracy theory about Tuesday’s debate.

I met some Trump supporters in Duluth, Minnesota yesterday.

Full video here: https://t.co/4fNjOorFY9

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

Facebook's mad online about accountability.

[Matt Navarra @MattNavarra]

😮 Wow...

Facebook has published this official response to Netflix’s ‘The Social Dilemma’ documentary

https://t.co/lTjXh9tiNP

[Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter]

What would you do if your sister joined a hate group?

That's a question Samantha's brother had to answer when she joined a white nationalist hate group.

Listen to our new podcast #SoundsLikeHatePod to find out what happened. https://t.co/u5rQiyXKlL

[Oren Segal @orensegal]

Check out “extremely,” a podcast I’m hosting for @ADL & @PERIL_AU where experts discuss their work combating hate & extremism. It will change the way you think about extremism – & the people who have dedicated their lives to fighting it. Visit https://t.co/j0Z0eg43yT to subscribe

[Steven Hassan, PhD @CultExpert]

As #QAnon grew, Facebook and Twitter missed years of warning signs about the conspiracy’s violent nature. Suggest reading my blogs after you read this one. https://t.co/Z6npj16nz6

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

As @JessieNYC documents in "White Lies," misogyny is one of the most common tropes in white supremacist propaganda.

[Dr. Mia Brett @QueenMab87]

The proud boys started as an anti-women org. Misogyny is the gateway drug to where supremacist radicalization. Misogyny is a public safety risk that people treat like an irrelevant personal preference

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

Cyan Banister is a prominent Silicon Valley investor.

The research that she did evidently didn't involve the @ADL, @splcenter, or government agencies who consider The Proud Boys to be a violent extremist group.

[Cyan Banister @cyantist]

Doing some research and it appears that characterizing this group the way the media has is incorrect. They have a few bad apples who’ve claimed to be part of their org but in general not true.

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

The @ADL's file on the group that Cyan is defending: "Misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and anti-immigration. Some members espouse white supremacist and anti-Semitic ideologies and/or engage with white supremacist groups."

[Cyan Banister @cyantist]

If you question anything you are labeled a “white supremacist”. This is getting to multi-levels of ridiculousness. Never in my life did I think this would happen. I spent my teen years fighting and almost dying by the hands of skinheads. Actual racists.

[Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight]

"We know this platform [Facebook] has been used to promote white supremacy. White supremacists groups convene on this platform, they recruit on this platform, and that should not be tolerated."

-@DerrickNAACP at today's #RealFacebookOversightBoard press conference

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

.@Facebook is happy to sit back and profit while people argue with the right-wing extremists who shouldn't be there in the first place.

"'If you're a far-left partisan then why can't you fight fire with fire?' the executive said."

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

NEW: Why are right-wing FB pages so popular?

A Facebook exec argues the msg is just more visceral: "Right wing populism is always more engaging...Nation, protection, the other, anger, fear. That was there in the 30s. That's not invented by social media"

https://t.co/RpC8sldXsx

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

Extremists coordinating acts of violence on @instagram.

https://t.co/qZrlJQrgn7

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

According to our analysis, Tucker Carlson is one of the most popular accounts of people who follow white supremacist accounts.

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

Outstanding interview with @mpgPhD that connects some of the dots on QAnon and gives advice on how to discuss the phenomenon.

[Ann Neumann @otherspoon]

"It’s a standard way of defaming an outsider group. It’s coincidentally deployed against early Christians: 'They eat babies and they do weird sex things...'" Don't miss @mpgPhD w/some super astute contextualization of QAnon: https://t.co/GdUhnLSN4U

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

"Tomorrow is supposed to be big news" just like a hundred other days were supposed to be big news.

Platforms like Twitter provide cult members with social support to stay in the cult after prophecies keep failing.

See "When Prophecy Fails" by Festinger, et al.

[Poker and Politics @PokerPolitics]

IT’S HABBENING*!!!! (*= might not habben, but if it does habben wouldn’t that be fun?)

[Center for the Study of Internet Extremism @inetextremism]

Even credit repair companies are radicalized these days.

Reminder that "Soros" is a dog whistle for the same old antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The idea that Jewish people use Black people to attack White America used to appear in Klan newsletters. Now it's on Fox News.