'Is receiving Dislikes in social media still better than being ignored? The effects of ostracism and rejection on need threat and coping responses online'.
"When posting content in social media, users can feel excluded due to lacking (cyber-ostracism) or negative (cyber-rejection) feedback.. this study examined the impact that both exclusion experiences have on social media users’ need threat & on their online coping behavior."
"Both types of exclusion threatened media users’ needs for belonging, self-esteem, meaningful existence, & control. Compared to ostracized users, rejected ones were more threatened in their needs for belonging & self-esteem, but...
...equally threatened in their needs for meaningful existence and control. Regarding social media users’ coping behavior, ostracized users showed more prosocial behavior, whereas rejected ones rather withdrew from social interactions."
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Priti Patel is one of the most controversial politicians in modern UK history.
She's a hard-right populist nationalist free-market fundamentalist, who has broken the Ministerial Code on at least three separate occasions, including "strong evidence" of bullying civil servants.
Priti Patel is perhaps best known for her relentlessly inflammatory, divisive, toxic & dangerously irresponsible rhetoric, especially around the demonization of asylum seekers & migrants, & those who professionally or otherwise have a responsibility to support or defend them.
Tzipi Hotovely is an Israeli diplomat & former politician who serves as the current Ambassador of Israel to the UK.
After a short media career, in 2008, Hotovely announced that she was joining Likud, & became a member of the Knesset when Likud won 27 seats.
In 2013 Hotovely rejected Palestinian statehood aspirations, & supported a Greater Israel spanning over the entire land of current Israel, along with the Palestinian territories.
She reiterated her position on 22 May 2015, rejecting criticism from the international community.
'Upvoting extremism: Collective identity formation and the extreme right on Reddit - Tiana Gaudette, Ryan Scrivens, Garth Davies, Richard Frank, 2021'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
"Right-wing extremists and those who subscribe to extreme right views have exploited online platforms to build a collective identity among the like-minded. Research in this area has largely focused on extremists’ use of websites, forums, and mainstream social media sites, but...
overlooked in this research has been an exploration of the popular social news aggregation site Reddit. The current study explores the role of Reddit’s unique voting algorithm in facilitating “othering” discourse &, by extension, collective identity formation among members of...
Project Veritas is an American far-right activist group founded by James O'Keefe in 2010.
"It produces deceptively edited videos of its undercover operations, which use secret recordings in an effort to discredit mainstream media organizations & progressive groups."
Project Veritas released a deceptive video created to malign Pfizer employees & the Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine.
Shortly after Project Veritas released the video, inauthentic Twitter accounts helped amplify the video on Twitter.
"During our initial investigation into Twitter hate accounts targeting Meghan and Harry, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, we observed an unusual number of hate accounts interacting with journalists and royal commentators who are frequently cited in the media as "royal experts"."
"The hate accounts we monitored appeared to follow and interact with certain prominent Twitter accounts that primarily cover the royal family."
"Moreover, several prominent Twitter accounts covering the royal family followed some of the more active and well-known hate accounts."
They include Jack Brereton, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South and a government aide who wrote an article published on the ConservativeHome website on Monday urging ministers to make sure the gambling review does “nothing to put the industry’s competitiveness at risk.
Mark Jenkinson wrote one of the sponsored pieces in July. He declared an Ascot hospitality box in June worth £1,400, paid for by the BCG.
ERG member & ex-UKIP candidate Jenkinson, along with Ben Bradley, is often in the news for his grotesque views: