HATE SPEECH AS A PRECURSOR TO RECRUITMENT,

RADICALIZATION AND TERRORISM

- Peter W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, #LikeWar

“If you are online, your attention is like a piece of contested territory, being

fought over in conflicts that you may or may not realize are unfolding

around you. Everything you watch, like, or share represents a tiny ripple on

the information battlefield...Your online attention and actions are thus both

targets and ammunition in an unending series of skirmishes.”

U.S. RW TERROR: LESS LETHAL, BUT MORE FREQUENT

KILLINGS IN 2018

KILLINGS IN 2018

KILLINGS IN 2018

- Zeynep Tufekci, associate professor at the University of North Carolina and author of Twitter and

Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest.

“It seems as if you are never “hard core”

enough for YouTube’s recommendation

algorithm. It promotes, recommends and

disseminates videos in a manner that

appears to constantly up the stakes. Given

its billion or so users, YouTube may be

one of the most powerful radicalizing

instruments of the 21st century.”

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Active Hate Groups in the United States