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All Things Considered: Behind Reddit’s Decision To Boot ‘The_Donald’ Forum.

J.M. Berger: The Strategy of Violent White Supremacy is Evolving: the Failed Approach of ‘Leaderless Resistance’ Gets a Second Chance in the Information Age.

Kat Bouza: Tucker Carlson’s New Favorite Website Is 4Chan: This imageboard has everything! Unabashed racism, inceldom, violent misogyny — and the Fox News host implied it’s the last bastion of free speech online.

Ali Breland: Militias Still Have a Safe Space on YouTube: A new report found hundreds of videos from sympathizers of groups that participated in the Capitol riot.

Andy Cao, Jason M. Lindo & Jiee Zhong: Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents? Evidence from Trump’s “Chinese Virus” Tweets.

CNN: Twitter removes transgender protections from hateful conduct policy.

Luke Darby: How white supremacy went mainstream in the US: 8chan, Trump, voter suppression.

Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, & Brian Friedberg: How Memes Led to an Insurrection: A president who understood the power of memes was able to send thousands of people into battle against democracy itself.

Elizabeth Dwoskin:

• Come to the ‘war cry party’: How social media helped drive mayhem in Brazil. Researchers detected a surge in aggressive rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday’s rioting.
• Come to the ‘war cry party’: How social media helped drive mayhem in Brazil. Researchers detected a surge in aggressive rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday’s rioting.

Ben Goossen: The Pacifist Roots of an American Nazi: Ingrid Rimland was a pioneering voice of the neo-Nazi Internet. She was also raised Mennonite, a peaceful religion with a long history of celebrating white “ethnic” identity.

Malcolm Harris: Lol Klans: A scholar of the Ku Klux Klan explains how the KKK used the same trolling tactics as the alt-right.

Drew Harwell: New video undercuts claim Twitter censored pro-Trump views before Jan. 6: In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence.

Neil F. Johnson:

• Hidden resilience and adaptive dynamics of the global online hate ecology.
• The physics professor who says online extremists act like curdled milk: Hate may be less like a cancer and more like bubbles, says Neil Johnson, who applies physics theory to human behavior.

Juliette Kayyem: A ‘Lone-Wolf’ Shooter Has an Online Pack: Even when a shooter acts alone, their ideology is often shared.

Michelle Kelley: The key to defeating the far right’s online hate: History provides lessons on how to pit popular culture against Internet hate speech and racist propaganda.

Mack Lamoureux: Teen Gets 11 Years for Neo-Nazi Videos That Inspired Racist Buffalo Mass Shooting: The U.K teen’s hateful content was linked to two mass shootings in the U.S.

Talia Lavin: White Supremacy And Its Online Reach.

Christopher Mathias: Gab Was Key To The Tree Of Life Shooting. Doug Mastriano Seems To Be Paying It For Followers. The GOP nominee for governor of Pennsylvania paid the far-right platform a $5,000 “consulting” fee. Now, new Gab accounts are automatically following him.

Timothy McLaughlin: The Weird, Dark History of 8chan.  

Media Matters for America: After Twitter lifted Libs of TikTok’s suspension, the viral anti-LGBTQ account immediately returned to targeting educators and a children’s hospital.

Cynthia Miller-Idriss:

• America’s Epidemic of Hate: Stopping Mass Shootings Requires Combating Online Extremism.
• Elon Musk’s Twitter is a welcoming home for Trump-disillusioned QAnon.
• How the internet supercharged white supremacist homeschooling: Extremists using homeschooling education to spread white supremacist ideology is becoming a growing problem.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad: How the Alt-Right Uses Social Science to Make Racism Respectable.

Tess Owen:

• Christian Fascist Propaganda Is All Over TikTok.
• Indiana Mall Gunman Appears to Have Posted Plans on 4chan.
• Gab Founder Andrew Torba Wants to Build a Christian Nationalist Internet: Facing increased competition from the likes of Truth Social, Torba has pivoted from free-speech zealot to hardcore Christian nationalist.
• Kanye West Is Buying Parler as the Far-Right Scrambles to Co-Opt Him: The rapper, who has fully gone public with his antisemitism, is buying the far-right platform. The extreme right could not be more thrilled.
• Instagram Has a White Nationalist ‘Groyper’ Problem. “Groypers,” followers of white nationalist livestreamer Nicholas Fuentes, are all over Instagram, some with thousands of followers.
• How Telegram Became White Nationalists’ Go-To Messaging Platform.

Kevin Roose: The Making of a YouTube Radical.

Tech Transparency Project: Facebook Profits from White Supremacist Groups.

Daniel Victor: In Christchurch, Signs Point to a Gunman Steeped in Internet Trolling.

James Vincent: Reddit reports 18 percent reduction in hateful content after banning nearly 7,000 subreddits.

The Washington Post:

• Texas gunman fantasized over race wars on social media before mass killing.
• Elon Musk’s Twitter pushes hate speech, extremist content into ‘For You’ pages: A Washington Post analysis found that accounts following dozens of Twitter handles pushing hate speech were subjected to an algorithmic echo chamber,in which Twitter fed additional hateful and racist content to users.