March 22, 2022 Report Open Access

Waldek, Lise; Droogan, Julian; Ballsun-Stanton, Brian

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  "description": "<p>The pandemic caused by the novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presents a&nbsp;national and global crisis. Government public health responses have impacted on the&nbsp;social and behavioural norms that shape daily interactions in Australia. The pandemic has been accompanied by the global spread of false and misleading information&nbsp;including conspiratorial narratives, resulting in an online environment described as an&nbsp;&lsquo;infodemic&rsquo;. The situation has presented far right extremists with a unique opportunity&nbsp;to capitalise on societal anxieties and align their narratives with wider public discourse&nbsp;to recruit and mobilise.</p>\n\n<p><br>\nTo better understand the impact of COVID-19 on Australian far right extremists, this&nbsp;report addressed three key questions.</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The creeping threat posed by far right extremist narratives in online Australian&nbsp;sentiment across a two-year time period from 8 January 2019 to 8 January 2021.</li>\n\t<li>How the COVID-19 pandemic and public health responses have been appropriated&nbsp;by far right extremists in Australia for purposes&nbsp; of recruitment, engagement, and&nbsp;mobilisation.</li>\n\t<li>The impact and effectiveness of social media moderation strategies on the presence&nbsp;and growth of far right extremists and conspiratorial narratives in the online&nbsp;environment.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>The report draws on two data sets. The creeping threat posed by&nbsp;far right extremist and conspiratorial narratives on mainstream public sentiment was&nbsp;explored using YouTube and Twitter data. In total, 21 YouTube channels were selected,&nbsp;generating 13+ million comments, and 1% of Australian tweets and retweets were&nbsp;collected generating 5.5+ million tweets. To explore how far right extremists have&nbsp;appropriated COVID-19 online, screenshots from Telegram and Instagram channels&nbsp;were collected from groups, individuals, and personalities associated with far right&nbsp;extremist and militant anti-lockdown movements.</p>", 
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode", 
  "creator": [
    {
      "affiliation": "Macquarie University", 
      "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0643-1405", 
      "@type": "Person", 
      "name": "Waldek, Lise"
    }, 
    {
      "affiliation": "Macquarie University", 
      "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8979-6505", 
      "@type": "Person", 
      "name": "Droogan, Julian"
    }, 
    {
      "affiliation": "Macquarie University", 
      "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4932-7912", 
      "@type": "Person", 
      "name": "Ballsun-Stanton, Brian"
    }
  ], 
  "headline": "Online far right extremist and conspiratorial narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic", 
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  "datePublished": "2022-03-22", 
  "url": "https://zenodo.org/record/5732611", 
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  "keywords": [
    "Right Wing Extremism", 
    "Far Right Extremism", 
    "Australia", 
    "New South Wales", 
    "COVID-19", 
    "Conspiracy", 
    "Twitter", 
    "YouTube"
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  "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5732611", 
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  "name": "Online far right extremist and conspiratorial narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic"
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