✨NEW PUB ALERT : FAR-RIGHT ONLINE RADICALIZATION LIT REVIEW✨ bit.ly/LitReviewPubPub PDF version: bit.ly/RadLitReview A lot of publications coming out of "disinfo studies" (writ large) don't include any model of radicalization. They just assume that "viewing extremist content" = "adopting extremist beliefs."

I have SOMETHING TO SAY about this batshit crazy story. Basically: the media LOVES a teen technopanic.
The PR firm easily exploited a hundred-year old moral panic over kids and tech. Here's why.

https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/1509144766855983106

New tech? Kind of scary to adults! New tech that KIDS USE that they DON'T UNDERSTAND? *terrifying*

🚨New paper:🚨 Morally motivated networked harassment as normative reinforcement. This is the result of 8 yrs of work on harassment & I feel like it's my magnum opus. In this thread I explain this model and credit the scholars who contributed to it.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… The model: A member of one community/social network (far-right, fat activists, a fandom) accuses a "target" of violating that network's moral norms ("the accusation"). This triggers moral outrage & justifies harassment by framing the target as deserving it.

NEW PROJECT: Today we launch the Critical Disinformation Studies syllabus, a collective effort to push scholars to be more contextual, historical, and power-oriented in conceptualizing and studying disinformation. citap.unc.edu/research/criti… We frequently talk about disinformation as if started in 2016, that social platforms are completely responsible for it, and that it caused a huge rupture in a shared sense of truth. These assumptions are all false.