- Dr. Neil Johnson – Hate Groups After Elections
Curious By Nature Podcast
The run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election has seen unprecedented levels of misinformation, division, and hate speech on social media. Even as election day comes and goes and the votes are being counted, the temperature of online discourse is only likely to rise. Online conversations about race, immigration, and other hot-button topics continue to attract extremist views that threaten to drown out anything resembling civil discourse. How do communities of hate operate? And how do they create their networks of users to infiltrate both the major platforms as well as the darker corners of the web? To understand complex systems such as this, one researcher at George Washington University is using his background in particle physics to map and analyze how hate speech flows on social media. We spoke before election day and before any of the votes were counted. So, without knowing the outcome, he gives a sobering warning that the biggest spike in online hate is likely to come after voters go to the polls.
- New Findings: Researchers Consider Elections, Hate, and Misinformation
Tech Policy Press
As the outcome of the 2024 US Presidential election hangs in the balance, it is worth looking at new academic research that explores the relationship between elections, political communications, and technology. This piece looks at three recent studies that provide insights into the efficacy of prebunking election misinformation using AI, the resilience and growth of online hate networks, and the shortcomings of political communication research in addressing threats of illiberalism from the far-right.
- Xenophobia and Hate Speech Are Spiking Heading Into the Election
New York Times
Leading Republican politicians and lax social media controls have contributed to a proliferation of hate rhetoric and anti-immigrant sentiment.
- Major events fuel hate speech on the Internet
Pressetext
Exemplary study by George Washington University on the 2020 US presidential election
- Elections bring online hate groups closer together
Scientias
A new study shows how elections not only fuel new forms of online hate, but also bring existing hate groups closer together.
- Major events like presidential elections bring online hate communities together
- You’re Not Imagining It: The Internet Really Does Get More Hateful Around Elections
IFL Science
Noticed the internet getting more hateful recently? It’s not just you.
- Online hate speech surged during 2020 U.S. election, study finds
Phys.org
A new study published today (Oct. 29) details the ways in which the 2020 U.S. election not only incited new hate content in online communities but also how it brought those communities closer together around online hate speech.
- Major Events Like Presidential Elections Bring Online Hate Communities Closer Together
Newswise
A new study published today details the ways in which the 2020 U.S. election not only incited new hate content in online communities but also how it brought those communities closer together around online hate speech.
- Study: Presidential Elections Bring Online Hate Communities Together
GW Today
As the election approaches, GW researchers detailed how major events strengthen global hate networks online and incite new content around hot-button issues.
GWU-based group developing the new science of online behavior