Roughly half of respondents who agree with QAnon also agree that the rise of liberalism has enabled Jewish people to destroy institutions and take over the world. morningconsult.com/2021/06/28/qan…
QAnon and Protocols believers were slightly more likely than U.S. conservatives to say that Capitol rioters were seeking to protect the government.
Both conspiracy-embracing groups track closely with right-leaning adults when it comes to questions about voter fraud and the 2020 presidential election.
78% of U.S. respondents who agreed with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion also agreed with QAnon, while 49% of QAnon adherents agreed with the century-old antisemitic slur, compared to 32% of right-leaning adults and just 11% of left-leaning adults.
In the survey, more than 3 in 5 right-leaning adults said they agreed that Joe Biden won the election due to widespread voter fraud, roughly on par with the share of QAnon and Protocols believers who said the same.
When it came to the Capitol riots, QAnon believers & those who agree with the Protocols were split on whether insurrectionists were there to protect or undermine the government, though both groups were slightly more likely than right-leaning adults to say it was the former.
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1) Perceived White population decline (pwpd) leads to collective existential threat 2) Existential threat is related to FR support 3) PWPD has a robust indirect relationship with measures of FR support via collective existential threat. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
What the study found was that individuals who perceived White population decline were more likely to agree with the statements “My racial group may one day disappear” and “My racial group is on the verge of annihilation.”
This existential threat, in turn, predicted increase sympathy for feelings for far-right extremist groups and increased support for stricter immigration policies.
The existential threat was not triggered by other types of population change the study found.
This was posted to McAfee's Instagram and is running wild in QAnon ecosystems unsurprisingly. Some are saying he had information Hilary, others said he's Epstein 2.0, others asking if he was Q?
The exact timestamp indicated possibly a scheduled post: 2021-06-23T20:10:04.000Z h/t to my buddy @JordanWildon
The time and timestamp indicated that this was a planned post troll, he's last post was October 2020 and the one before that November 19. The infrequency of his Instragram post raises a red flag with this last one and begs the question if someone with account access is trolling
1/ I agree with Jordan, the original tweet by @APerliger makes some excellent points; however, I would have to disagree as Jordan did. There is plenty of evidence of the transnationalisation of the far right that is not anecdotal. AWD, The Base, FKD, are examples of this.l
2/ It's also remember that when taking ecosystems approach to IMVE actors there are plenty of examples of this. The recent InjektDivision case showed how the actor was networked with domestic and international ecosystems.
3/ Now this is not the traditional physical FTFs, and I agree with @APerliger there; though we now should talk about ecosystem rather than groups this it makes this space more nebulous
Wrote yesterday about a QAnon influencer with 338k followers has gone full neo-nazi. He is picking these narratives, "arguments", or images from neo-nazi ecosystems. The difference? This individual has more followers than the entire ecosystem I monitor.
The average violent extremist channel on telegram has 100-300 followers. A large channel has 1,000-3,000. This account has 100,000 times that. Long term education and investment in social programs are important. Short term it is hard to say what is a viable option for this scale.
Might be a pessimist. But would be interested in seeing studies or options for large scale prevention strategies for this.
15-year-old schoolgirl is due to stand trial on six terror charges after she was allegedly caught with a bomb-making video. The teenager, from Derbyshire, is also accused of having instructions on how to build a gun using a 3D printer. bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
Second instance this week where someone is charged for possession 3D-printed gun parts or instructions
This is also the second offence of a teen from Derbyshire this year being charged with a terrorism offence. I would be curious to see if they are networked or not . bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
As @milleridriss hilights "you can’t tackle domestic extremism by only paying attention to the fringe you also have to pay attention to what’s happening in the mainstream."
This speak to the fact that there needs to be a shift in how we look at extremists washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Working and researching in this space we need to consider the current iteration of threat actors from a network and systems perspective. This is something I've been discussing with @AlexBNewhouse, @Adnanr23@AmarAmarasingam, and @JordanWildon.
The amorphous nature of threat actors and the crosspollination of ideologies, grievances and narratives -due to the functionality of alt-tech spaces- as well as shifts in the type of threat actors in the pre-radicalization space means we need to take a big picture approach.