White nationalist movement growing much faster than Isis on Twitter, study finds

[CousinIT]

The number of white nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathisers on Twitter have multiplied more than 600 per cent in the last four years, outperforming the so-called Islamic State (Isis) in everything from follower counts to number of daily tweets, a new study found.

Researchers at George Washington University’s Programme on Extremism analysed 18 accounts belonging to major white nationalist groups and organisations – such as the American Nazi Party and the National Socialist Movement – mostly located in the US.

These accounts saw a sharp increase in followers, from about 3,500 in 2012 to 22,000 in 2016. The study notes that while Isis stood out for its outreach and recruitment using Twitter since the group’s emergence a few years ago, white nationalist groups have excelled in the medium.

The report underscores the declining influence of Isis on the social media platform as Twitter continues to crackdown on the Islamist militant group. In August, the company said that it shut down roughly 360,000 accounts for what they saw as promoting terrorism.

Yet, the GWU study said that white nationalists are using the site with “relative impunity”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/white-nationalist-movement-twitter-faster-growth-isis-islamic-state-study-a7223671.html

[lonestarnot]

1. PIG BILE!

[Initech]

2. Trump needs to denounce this now!!!

[sagetea]

3. I think you're giving him

too much compassion. He won't, ever. He does not know how to function as a human being, no clue what so ever.

Ho`
sage

[Initech]

6. No he is the least compassionate president ever.

[2naSalit]

7. He does not know how to function as a human being

That's it right there!

[randr]

4. You know he won't don't you?

He has already chosen a target from this weekend events, or should I say targets.
Rather than to denounce the nazi celebration he has chosen to attack the cast members of a Broadway production and the very protectors of our first amendment rights.

[muntrv]

5. White nationalists are not terrorists, according to twitter.

[bdamomma]

8. twitter can frig itself

white nationalists or supremacists are home grown terrorists as far as I am concerned.

[Grey Lemercier]

9. mainstream hard right wingers are now coming out as full stop nazi now, Jared Wyand, who works with

Sean Hannity, Anne Coulter and many others (Roseanne Barr retweeted him a tonne) has lifted the hood off his anti-jewish, white power self to his 130K followers


https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/800568527375728640



https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/800549495226429440



https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/800856543642021892



https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/800970324372135936



this shit is getting OUT of fucking control with these fuckers