Tag: Alt-Right

Feels Good Man review: Reclaiming Pepe the Frog from the alt-right

Pepe the Frog ended up as the darling of both anarchists and the alt-right. A documentary tells the surprising true story of the super-meme and its creator Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833050-400-feels-good-man-review-reclaiming-pepe-the-frog-from-the-alt-right/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

‘The Matrix’ Co-Founder Slams Ivanka Trump and Elon Musk

Andrew Pulver writes via The Guardian: Film-maker Lilly Wachowski has responded to Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump after the pair bantered on social media using a phrase from the Wachowskis’ hit 1999 film, The Matrix. After Musk tweeted “Take the red pill” — referring to a key scene in The Matrix, which subsequently gave rise to the phrase “redpilling” as an…

Gamifying hate: How alt-right extremists recruit and mobilise online

Julia Ebner infiltrated the hidden forums that extremists use. Her experiences lay bare how they hijack social media and video games to spread hate – and how to beat them Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532720-700-gamifying-hate-how-alt-right-extremists-recruit-and-mobilise-online/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Study of YouTube Comments Finds Evidence of Radicalization Effect

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Research presented at the ACM FAT 2020 conference in Barcelona today supports the notion that YouTube’s platform is playing a role in radicalizing users via exposure to far-right ideologies. The study, carried out by researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne and the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, found evidence…

Ultima Thule renamed to avoid Nazi link

The distant Kuiper Belt object formerly known as 2014 MU69 – later known as Ultima Thule – has been renamed again. Its new name is Arrokoth. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/ultima-thule-renamed-to-avoid-nazi-link…

YouTube suggests extremist content more often than alt-right site Gab

YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is the worst at recommending extremist content compared to Gab, a right wing social media site, and Reddit Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2208550-youtube-suggests-extremist-content-more-often-than-alt-right-site-gab/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Donald Trump spent Saturday retweeting far-right personalities. Then he told them they’re right.

Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/4/18529468/donald-trump-twitter-facebook-ban-far-right…

Our incel problem

Source: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/16/18287446/incel-definition-reddit…