Uniting the far right: how the far-right extremist, New Right, and populist frames overlap on Twitter – a German case study

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(IFSH) working within the framework of VOX-Pol. She is also a PhD Candidate at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBSL) at the University of Hamburg. Her dissertation examines responses to online extremism in the UK, Germany, and the EU and is funded by a scholarship awarded by the AMBSL. She has previously published in the area of radicalisation and online extremism, with a particular focus on the far right and violent jihadis. She holds an undergraduate degree in Politics from the University of Leeds and an MA in International Security from the University of Groningen.

How Jihadi Salafists Sometimes Breach, But Mostly Circumvent, Facebook’s Community Standards in Crisis, Identity and Solution Frames

“…Consequently, clear-cut boundaries between right-wing extremist and radical actors are becoming increasingly obsolete. 41 A similar phenomenon can be observed in the Salafist context: identifying content advocating violent jihad by GJM supporters who do not express their adhesion to any extremist organisation is a more delicate operation than identifying content posted by organizations listed as terrorist ones or by their supporters whose affiliation is explicit.…”

Mapping White Identity Terrorism and Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism: A Social Network Analysis of Online Activity

“…22, No. 2, 2021. 60 Ahmed and Pisoiu, 2021. 61 Roderick Graham, "Inter-Ideological Mingling: White Extremist Ideology Entering the Mainstream on Twitter," Sociological Spectrum, Vol. 36, No.…”

Differentiating Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists

“…Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have paid close attention to the presence of terrorists and extremists online in recent years, with a particular emphasis on the digital patterns and behaviors of the extreme right (see Conway et al, 2019; see also Holt et al, 2020). It should come as little surprise that researchers have focused on the activities of RWEs on various platforms, including on websites and discussion forums (e.g., Back, 2002; Bliuc et al, 2019; Burris et al, 2000; De Koster & Houtman, 2008; Futrell & Simi, 2004; Holt et al, 2020; Scrivens, 2020; Scrivens et al, 2020b; Wojcieszak, 2010), mainstream social media sites including Facebook (e.g., Ekman, 2018; Nouri & Lorenzo-Dus, 2019; Scrivens & Amarasingam, 2020; Stier et al, 2017), Twitter (e.g., Ahmed & Pisoiu, 2021; Berger, 2016; Berger & Strathearn, 2013; Burnap & Williams, 2015; Graham, 2016), and YouTube (e.g., Ekman, 2014; Munger & Philips, 2022; O’Callaghan et al, 2014), fringe platforms including 4chan (e.g., Finkelstein et al, 2018; Papasavva et al, 2020) and Gab (e.g., Zannettou et al, 2018; Zhou et al, 2019), and digital applications such as TikTok (e.g., Weimann & Masri, 2020) and Telegram (e.g., Guhl & Davey, 2020; Urman & Katz, 2020). But these studies, similar to criminological research on the causes of violent extremism and terrorism in general, lack comparison groups, despite a significant need to focus on comparative analyses and consider how violent extremists are different than nonviolent extremists (Becker, 2021; Chermak et al, 2013; Freilich & LaFree, 2015; Freilich et al, 2015; Jasko et al, 2017; Knight et al, 2019; LaFree et al, 2018).…”