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Platform Racism: How Minimizing Racism Privileges Far Right Extremism | Items

Considering that President Donald Trump spent the last four years in the White House emboldening and reinforcing white supremacy, President Joe Biden’s overtures to address “domestic violent extremism” are a welcome relief. As we have learned in the aftermath of the storming of the US Capitol, social media platforms played an important role in assembling and coordinating an attack in which a confederation of nationalists, misogynists, fascists, and white supremacists participated.

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Source: Platform Racism: How Minimizing Racism Privileges Far Right Extremism | Items