Right-wing American extremists and white supremacist groups are adopting the same ISIS-favored ways to attract and radicalize their members online, according to a new study.
Under Trump, extreme right-wing and white nationalist groups have grown and felt emboldened to emerge from their historic shadows into public fora. But online, in the past year their methods appear to have been borrowed, or at least mimic, how violent jihadists around the world recruit and reach their own members.
“While ISIS is a well-established and centralized group with a hierarchical organizational structure, the [tactics, techniques, and procedures] they leverage to organize, recruit, incite action, and disseminate information online appear to have been adopted by several emergent radical domestic groups in the United States,” says the new report from data analytics company Babel Street, obtained exclusively by Defense One.
Researchers looked at several groups with various beliefs, structures, and intensities, including the Atomwaffen Division, a fairly closed neo-Nazi group, and the Not Fucking Around Coalition, or NFAC, is a heavily-armed, anti-government group with a strong central, charismatic leader who produces podcasts and daily messages for members. They contrast with the Boogaloo Bois, a decentralized movement with no strong leadership, held together in the shared conviction that social tension in the United States along racial and economic lines will lead to violent upheaval and a second civil war — while wearing Hawiian shirts.
Different as these groups are, after a year of reviewing content posted across pages, forums, and inside the channels belonging to the groups, Babel Street found significant overlap between members and a common set of tactics, techniques, and procedure ..
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