If it seems like the alt-right are filling social media with their bile, this piece will at least confirm that for you.
The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It’s that, but way way weirder.
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‘Imploding’: Financial troubles. Lawsuits. Trailer park brawls. Has the alt-right peaked?
Eight months after a deadly white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, the movement is at a crossroads.
The Alt-Right Playbook: Why Don't You Respond to Criticism?
The sad decline of effective altruism
A once wholesome and inspiring movement has become entangled with cults and has lost years chasing dead-end ideas
The alt-right is drunk on bad readings of Nietzsche. The Nazis were too.
The alt-right is obsessed with the 19th-century German philosopher. They don’t understand him.
The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie
The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie
How the Far Right Feeds on Male Insecurity
A new book explores the strange ways young men get sucked into toxic ideologies like the alt-right. But according to the author, "many of the guys who get out quietly slip back into society."
The Alt-Right Playbook
Outer Limits — Real Life
Conservative movements thrive when social media connect the suburbs
The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction
An elegant middle finger to the putrefying swamps of the internet
Data Feminism for AI
Attacks on women and trans people are not happening in a vacuum. Communications scholars W. Lance Bennett and Marianne Kneuer recently argued that we are witnessing the intensification of "illiberal public spheres" around the world (Bennett and Kneuer, 2023). These are characterized by a set of anti-democratic communications tactics that include the denigration and exclusion of minoritized people, targeted attacks on the press and political institutions, and transgression of norms of civil discourse. Such tactics are enabled and amplified by the social media platforms owned by Big Tech, whose business model elevates attention above all other metrics, such that they profit richly off extremism, threats, spectacle, and lies. The success of this corporate partnership with right-wing extremism is evident in the proliferation of book bans (Magnusson, 2024), the demonization of DEI and critical race theory (Crenshaw, 2022), and mob tactics to doxx, intimidate, misrepresent, and otherwise silence people that study misinformation, speak out against racial and gender violence, or rule against insurrectionists (Edmonds, 2024). At the same time, we have seen the continued work of feminists, including Latin American, Indigenous, and abolitionist feminists in the US and globally, doing the work of imagining alternate worlds (Cullors, 2021; Davis, 2022; Ricaurte, 2019; Simpson, 2017). This paper represents our own first attempt to imagine a more equitable, sustainable, feminist world for AI research.
The Alt-Right Playbook: Always a Bigger Fish
Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries | TechCrunch
Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But there's a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolution. Neoreactionaries believe that all the good stuff from the past few centuries come from technology and capitalism, and that democracy and social progress have actually done more harm than good. They propose a return to old-fashioned gender roles, social order and monarchy.
The Rise of the Right-Wing Media Machine
This conservative media machine now rivals—and may well surpass—the power and the influence of the old-line press. It holds sway over much of the national agenda, deciding which ideas and...
