13 DIGITAL DYNAMICS OF RADICALIZATION: TRACING FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISM IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND THE SOUTHEAST EUROPE Several studies have also explored the relationship and interplay between online and offline influences and radicalization processes.29 In the US, data indicates that around 2010, there was a notable uptick in the significance of social media as a facilitator of radicalization, tho. [...] The considerable role of victimhood narratives in shaping the ideologies and actions of extremists in the region highlights how important it is to understand and address the impact of these narratives as part of efforts to counter radicalization and violent extremism. [...] 33 DIGITAL DYNAMICS OF RADICALIZATION: TRACING FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISM IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND THE SOUTHEAST EUROPE and in the examples our researchers identified in the online far-right milieu, this revisionism involves a role reversal, in which the victimizer becomes the victim. [...] 35 DIGITAL DYNAMICS OF RADICALIZATION: TRACING FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISM IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND THE SOUTHEAST EUROPE This narrative has been embraced within the regional far-right extremist milieu as a means of intensifying the stigmatization of LGBTQ+ people and providing a rationalization for acts of harassment and violence directed towards the LGBTQ+ community. [...] Particularly conspicuous among these is the assertion that the conflict is the result of historical ‘NATO aggression’ and actions of the West, a claim made by a number of Serbian far-right groups, along with the assertion that Russia and Putin are being vilified by the mainstream media.
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