This study examines the posting behavioral patterns of both violent and non-violent right-wing extremists (RWEs) within a sub forum of the largest white supremacy web-forum, Stormfront, in general, and whether there are differences in each user types’ radical posting behavior over time, which may contribute to their collective identity formation in particular. This study represents an original contribution to the academic literature on violent online political extremism on three key fronts. Authors: Garth Davies, Ryan […]

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Disinformation attacks that make use of social media platforms, e.g., the attacks orchestrated by the Russian ‘‘Internet Research Agency’’ during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election campaign and the 2016 Brexit referendum in the UK, have led to increasing demands from governmental agencies for AI tools that are capable of identifying such attacks in their earliest stages, rather than responding to them in retrospect. This research undertaken on behalf of the Canadian Armed Forces and Department […]

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