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In the blind spot – Right-wing extremists on alternative and

19 Dec 2023

In the first year of the project, the research team shed In 2023, a long-term study was conducted into the light on the “escape routes”,1 used by the far-right and effects of the German Network Enforcement Act right-wing extremist milieu to avoid regulation by the (NetzDG) and the legislation that replaced it, the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG), which was European Digital Services Act (DS. [...] To Follow the Money: Tracing the Role of operationalise the latter and represent the flow of funds, Cryptocurrencies in Financing the German Far- we create interaction networks consisting of both the Right, the Anti-Vax 'Querdenken' Movement and actors in our sample and the users of cryptocurrencies Conspiracy Theorist Scene on Telegram to whom they send remittances and, more importantly, from who. [...] Thus, we explore the potential of concludes on the far-right use of trending topics and utilizing the semantic fit between the textual contents features of a platform, how the far-right positions itself and the images associated with it, as well as the and its narratives towards the Russian aggression in similarity between these images, which might serve Ukraine and what empirical implications are. [...] In the blind spot – Right-wing extremists on alternative and established platforms 16 The paper is based on the research of a subproject at the help of the platform's own moderation tools and the IDZ Jena, which is embedded in the BMBF-funded what information can be gathered about them within research network “Patterns and Dynamics of Conspiracy a certain period of time. [...] The period from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic Under the conditions of Web 2.0, there is a in March 2020 and the Russian war of aggression considerable presence of anti-Semitism on the net, against Ukraine in February 2022 to the present day especially in connection with age-old, more or less is particularly critical in this context.
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