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Focus Tag: Identity Politics
“Operation My Fellow Jews:” 4chan’s Campaign to Spread Antisemitism on Twitter | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Kaylee Fagan
November 16, 2021
On Aug. 16, 2019, an anonymous user posted to 4chan’s Politically Incorrect board calling upon fellow 4chan users to impersonate Jewish people online…
A tale of two Facebook leaks | Columbia Journalism Review
by Paroma Soni
November 2, 2021
In April, several months before a Facebook employee named Frances Haugen became the most famous whistleblower in the company’s history,…
South Korea’s elderly alt-right unite on YouTube | Rest of World
by Grace Moon
May 28, 2021
On the afternoon of the March 1 Independence Day, 85-year-old Jeong Nam-yeon marched for over an hour in the piercing…
Podcast: Floyd’s Death Leads To Disinformation About Black Lives Matter Movement | NPR
by Cheryl Corley
May 25, 2021
Support for Black Lives Matter erupted after the murder of George Floyd by former police officer Derek Chauvin. But activists…
Targeting Turkish–Georgian Relations: Russian Disinformation is Taking a Local Turn | RUSI
by Kakhaber Kemoklidze and Natia Seskuria
May 21, 2021
Having scored only limited success in their anti-Western disinformation campaign in Georgia, Russian propaganda outlets are now attempting to fuel…
Racialized Disinformation and Real World Consequences | NetGain
May 20, 2021
In the wake of heightened online radicalization over the past several years, including the rise of far-right nationalism, violence, and…
Inside the rise of ‘Free Speech’ anti-Facebook platforms across Central Europe | Rest of World
by Emily Schultheis
May 18, 2021
In late March, Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party and the country’s deputy prime minister, spoke…
Nearly three-quarters of female journalists have faced online violence, study finds | Poynter
by Al Tompkins
May 7, 2021
A UNESCO-commissioned global study of online violence against female journalists draws on more than 900 responses from journalists in 125…
How Extremists Weaponize Irony To Spread Hate | NPR
by Tom Dreisbach
April 27, 2021
On a recent episode of his livestreamed show, the 22-year-old extremist Nick Fuentes repeated a formula that has won him…