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Tackling Online Radicalization At Its Offline Roots

You would be forgiven for thinking that the advent of Covid-19 and the accompanying lockdowns have led to the mass radicalization of our youth, consigned to cyberspace, and exposed to…

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COVID-19 Drives Conspiracy Theories and Islamophobia

The COVID-19 pandemic has been used as a weapon by the radical right in promoting conspiracy theories. For the past decade, I have been researching the impact of Islamophobia on social…

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Under lockdown, Germany’s PEGIDA goes to YouTube

Germany’s far-right group PEGIDA is mobilizing weekly ‘virtual marches’ livestreamed on YouTube. On a Monday evening in early April 2020, around 1,000 users are waiting for a YouTube livestream, hosted…

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Quarantined Radicals: Right-Wing Extremism In The Age Of COVID-19

Researchers are asking if this era of self-isolation will increase radicalization, but they need to look at the existing extremism COVID-19 is exacerbating. There have been articles published that assert…

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“#CoronaJihad”: How the Far-Right in India is Responding to the Pandemic

A number of far-right extremists have recently taken to social media platforms to spread conspiratorial content about COVID-19. Such conspiracy theories range from the virus being a biological weapon created…

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Right Rising Podcast (Season One, Episode Eight): Women and Gender in the Extreme Right

Radical Right Conspiracy Theories Are A Threat To Democracy

What can former right-wing extremists tell us about radicalization and counter-radicalization?

Donald v. Democracy: Trump Takes Election Loss Like Defiant Dictator

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