2018/12/01 by Emmi Bevensee, Alexander Reid Ross · 1 voice
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Media Influence and Politics #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence #cs.CL #cs.SI
paper · pdf · doi:10.1109/bigdata.2018.8622270
published as 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 4393-4402 · Presented and published through IEEE 2019 Big Data Conference
openalex publication_date 2018/12/01 · arxiv created 2019/05/07 · arxiv published 2019/05/07 · arxiv updated 2019/05/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The Alt-Right is a neo-fascist white supremacist movement that is involved in violent extremism and shows signs of engagement in extensive disinformation campaigns. Using social media data mining, this study develops a deeper understanding of such targeted disinformation campaigns and the ways they spread. It also adds to the available literature on the endogenous and exogenous influences within the US far right, as well as motivating factors that drive disinformation campaigns, such as geopolitical strategy. This study is to be taken as a preliminary analysis to indicate future methods and follow-on research that will help develop an integrated approach to understanding the strategies and associations of the modern fascist movement.