Hate Fuel: The hidden online world fuelling far right terror
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June 2020
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Abstract
This report highlights four social media platforms where thousands of violent antisemitic videos, memes and posts are regularly shared by far right extremists who have migrated away from mainstream sites like Facebook and YouTube. Each of these four platforms – Gab, Telegram, BitChute and 4chan – was either set up or operates as a direct challenge to the main social media companies, citing free speech or privacy as justifications for their role in the promotion or distribution of hateful, inciteful and often violent content. They provide relatively unregulated online spaces for extremists to share content that celebrates and encourages hatred and murder.
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Antisemitism Antisemitism: Far right Hate crime Internet Main Topic: Antisemitism Social Media Terrorism
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From the report summary:
'The content revealed in this report is so extreme, both in terms of the violent imagery we found and the quantity of explicit antisemitism, that it would be irresponsible for CST to publish the report in full. Instead, we are sharing it privately with Police, government and other counter-extremism officials and experts.'
'The content revealed in this report is so extreme, both in terms of the violent imagery we found and the quantity of explicit antisemitism, that it would be irresponsible for CST to publish the report in full. Instead, we are sharing it privately with Police, government and other counter-extremism officials and experts.'
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Link to summary, Hate Fuel: The hidden online world fuelling far right terror
Bibliographic Information
Hate Fuel: The hidden online world fuelling far right terror. . June 2020: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-1144
