Far-right & content moderation | @MSCActions postdoc @TilburgU | 📚 The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers & Online Radicalization @ColumbiaUP
Mar 20 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Stop calling everything trad.
One of these women is a tradwife, the other is not. Here’s why it matters:
Firstly, tradwives are both an online community and a movement.
It emerged around 2015 from the mommy blogging sphere. Then it spread to alt-right forums like Red Pill Women/Wives subreddit.
Feb 20, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Thread: The terrorist attack in #Hanau was horrific and we should take the threat of right wing extremism seriously. But there is a double standard when it comes to media representation of far right terror attacks.
Do you know that earlier this month, there was a far right terrorist shooting at a university in India? The perpetrator broadcast the attack live on Facebook shouting Hindu nationalist slogans: thediplomat.com/2020/02/jamia-…