TY  - BOOK
AU  - DAVIES Garth
AU  - WU Edith
AU  - FRANK Richard
TI  - A witch’s brew of grievances: : the potential effects of COVID-19 on radicalization to violent extremism
PY  - 2023///
KW  - PANDEMIC
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - EXTREMIST
N2  - Historically, pandemics had inevitably produced demonization and scapegoating, and the COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception. Some individuals and groups have attempted to weaponize and exploit the pandemic, to use it as a means of spreading their extremist ideologies and to radicalize others to their causes. Segmented regression analyses of seven online extremist forums revealed that posting behavior on violent right-wing extremist and incel forums increased significantly following the declaration of the pandemic. The same was not true of left-wing or jihadist forums. These unequal effects likely reflect the particular grievance-based and online nature of right-wing and incel extremism
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2021.1923188
ER  -