ECOFASCISM AS AN EMERGING DIGITAL PHENOMENON

A new research project examines how environmental narratives appear in far-right online ecosystems and outlines open questions rather than definitive conclusions.

🔗 https://voxpol.eu/ecofascism-digital-media-political-economy/

💬 Is this an area that deserves more analytical attention?

#Ecofascism #FarRight #DigitalExtremism #Radicalisation #SCENOR

Democracy Digest: Poland to Probe Possible Epstein Links to Russian Intelligence

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/02/06/democracy-digest-poland-to-probe-possible-epstein-links-to-russian-intelligence/

🇫🇷 № 2381 ― Renforcer la lutte contre la diffusion de contenus faisant l'apologie du terrorisme ou incitant à la haine sur les plateformes numériques et à promouvoir une sensibilisation renforcée du public, en particulier des jeunes #france #terrorism #violence #radicalisation #online #hateful #numérique #digital #services #minors #web #extremist #influence #ideologies #citizens #threats [ https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/opendata/PIONANR5L17B2381.html ] #informatique

Face à une pensée d’extrême droite qui se banalise, Mark Fortier envisage, dans un ouvrage satirique, « Devenir fasciste », sa propre conversion au parti de la haine.
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/01/27/opportunisme-et-lachete-les-conseils-d-un-anthropologue-canadien-pour-devenir-fasciste_6664353_3232.html

#fascisme #extremedroite #fascisation #racisme #canada #france #usa #radicalisation

The radicalisation of urban exploration YouTubers

This episode of QAA goes deep on something I’ve noticed over recent years: since I first started following them it seems that urban exploration YouTube has become increasingly reactionary. Indeed in some cases there are obviously far-right tropes entering into these videos:

https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/london-has-fallen-e356

My sense has always been that there’s a form of the sociological imagination driving this in which viewers follow these creators out of a genuine curiosity about the urban environment and how it is changing. The thoughtful urban explorers touch on a lot of important themes about capitalism, inequality and the urban environment but they do it in an impressionistic, shallow and often banal way. But there are some of them I find very watchable nonetheless. I’ve often thought that there’s a huge opening here for a compelling urban sociologist to build a significant following, meeting the same audience demand in a richer and deeper way. I suspect Les Back for example would be great at this.

In this sense I wonder increasingly if the oversupply problem in digital public engagement (i.e. too much academic content, too small an audience, inadequate delivery mechanisms) could be solved by more targeted genre-based interventions. Indeed it’s suddenly struck me how I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single in situ academic blogger. If anyone can think of an example of this I’d love to see it.

So why are so many of the urban explorers drifting in a reactionary, even far-right, direction. There are a range of potential explanations I can think of:

• Grifting in pursuit of increasingly large reactionary audiences
• The algorithm prioritising reactionary content (is there evidence of YouTube taking an X like turn?)
• These YouTubers being terminally online and being radicalised by other content they are exposed to (including cross-platform discourse)
• The forms of biographical rupture which happen to men in their 20s and 30s driving some of these creators towards radical content

The more interesting aspect of this though would be the nature of the sociological description these YouTubers are engaged in. If you’re setting out to document ‘urban decay’ without any resources for explaining the structural roots of that trend ready-to-hand tropes of urban decay will insert themselves into your narrative. This can’t be pure description. There has to be story telling for compelling content. These stories need mechanisms which drive them. This is where reactionary analysis will fill in the gaps when there’s nothing deeper to draw upon, creating increasingly reactionary interpretations of (impressionistic) observations of urban change. I wonder if this is at least part of the mechanism in some cases.

But I find it hard to watch stuff like this and not think it’s a grift… there’s something so affected about the breathless way in which she purports to be terrified while walking through Whitechapel market (the absence of ‘english faces’) which just seems obviously affected:

https://youtu.be/vQe9uatZ9eE?si=iHLC2o0e_N9G96cu&t=435

I mean there are points in this video which are just obviously bad faith. This Punjabi sign is lingered on in a close up outside Whitechapel station:

Where this is presumably where they were standing, with the Whitechapel sign next to it (in an area with a 33% Bengali population):

So we can see bad faith deception, broader grifting and genuine radicalisation converging in producing these videos. I do wonder if the superficiality of the videos, a constant attention to surface level impressions articulated in the most superficial way, should be considered a separate factor here. Or rather it’s a dimension in which these other aspects converge to maximal effect to produce this increasingly toxic sludge. There’s a constant invocation of ‘english culture’, ‘traditionally english’, ‘quintessentially english’, ‘proper english’, ‘actually english’ (etc) without any attempt to define or explain what these terms mean. Underneath all the other factors I think there’s a genuine lack of curiosity here about the world around them beyond these surface impressions.

#algorithm #digitalPublicEngagement #farRight #lesBack #publicEngagement #race #racism #radicalisation #socialMediaForAcademics #urbanSociology

CODED LANGUAGE IS CENTRAL TO FAR-RIGHT COMMUNICATION ONLINE.

Dog whistles on TikTok help extremist actors signal ideology without explicit messaging.

Read more: https://voxpol.eu/coded-language-dog-whistles-tiktok-far-right/

Have you noticed this kind of indirect messaging online?

#Extremism #FarRight #TikTok #OnlineHate #Radicalisation

NIA court convicts Pak-linked LeT operative in recruitment case https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/nia-convicts-let-terrorist-idris-west-bengal-s4upconq?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #LeT #NIA #TerrorCase #Radicalisation #IndiaNews

PLONGÉE DANS L’EXTRÊME DROITE RADICALE. ENTRETIEN AVEC SÉBASTIEN BOURDON

https://frustrationmagazine.fr/extreme-droite-radicale

#extroite #extreme #extremes
#droite #LaDroite #la_droite
#radicalisation

PRIORITY ACCESS TO EXTREMISM RESEARCH.

The SCENOR Science Hive provides early access to research outputs, newsletters, and events focused on political extremism and prevention.

Registration: https://buff.ly/391R9bz

Question for the community: What is currently missing in responses to violent extremism?

#PoliticalExtremism #Radicalisation #ExtremismPrevention #ResearchCommunity #SCENOR

🇪🇸 La Audiencia Nacional (poderjudicial.es) decreta el internamiento en régimen cerrado y la elaboración de un estudio psiquiátrico al menor #spain #mental #ideologies #radicalisation #terrorism #minors #health #threats #espagne [ https://elpais.com/espana/2026-01-14/la-policia-detiene-a-un-menor-por-yihadismo-en-alava-y-le-interviene-armas-blancas-y-una-pistola-simulada.html ]

‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/27/its-frightening-how-far-right-is-infiltrating-everyday-culture?CMP=Mastodon

> Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’

> While there are some who are driven by prejudices against certain groups or specific beliefs, or others who tag along with friends who are already involved, many are lured by the subcultures that encase these movements, she said.

#farright #radicalisation

🇦🇺 « hate speech » ― The head of the Australian Federal Police (afp.gov.au) has warned that raids are imminent #australia #extremism #ideologies #hate #radicalisation #violence #threats [ https://www.smh.com.au/national/afp-warns-raids-imminent-as-authorities-move-in-on-hate-speech-20251218-p5novo.html ] [ https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/australia-urged-to-take-al-capone-approach-to-hate-preachers-extremists-20251217-p5noeq.html ]

Time for ASIO to act
#ausnews #vicnews #editorial #cookers #sovcits #racists #bigots #firearms #radicalisation #asio #afp #guns #laws

https://www.victoriannews.com.au/opinion/editorial-opinion/time-for-asio-to-act/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

The Australian beach terror attack is not an isolated incident.
It reflects a global ecosystem of radicalisation, extremist ideology, and unresolved security failures.

A deep investigative analysis on what went wrong — and what must change.
#GlobalTerrorism #Radicalisation #SecurityPolicy
https://news24media.org/australia-beach-terror-attack-exposes-radical/

🇫🇷 Le média Le Télégramme (letelegramme.fr), Groupe Télégramme (groupe-telegramme.com) dresse le portrait de La Digue, ce groupuscule français actif d'extrême droite radicale #france #morbihan #lorient #finistere #ensibs #violence #scare #tactics #movements #radicalisation #ideologies [ https://www.letelegramme.fr/morbihan/lorient-56100/actes-violents-degradations-intimidations-jusquou-ira-lextreme-droite-radicale-a-lorient-6945694.php ]

🇯🇵 Japan's political and social crisis have fuelled a climate of anxiety & a surge in right-wing radicalization. #japan #social #political #crisis #influence #disinformation #radicalisation #ideologies #social #tactics #citizens #threats #japon [ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/12/10/in-japan-disinformation-is-spreading-as-right-wing-influence-grows_6748332_4.html ]

So Reddit is challenging Australia taking a first step with an age-related social media ban, saying it limits political discussion. It doesn'tgo far enough (as others pointed out and prompted me to rewrite this), but it is a first move towards stopping a reality warping, narcissistic slide to the bottom via the current wave of mainstreamed sociopathy and psychopathy. It needs to be even more thorough, but I guess Reddit isn't interested in stopping that downward spiral.

Anything which reduces radicalisation in a vulnerable age group is good. Why do Reddit want to continue enabling the harm?

To an extent, it reduces triggering and exposure to negative conditioning linked to bullying, eating disorders, violence and abuse etc., not only by what it bans but also heightening awareness of the issue.

Fact is, it takes time to orientate oneself in this crazy world in order to accurately sift political discussion and detect political corruption, hype and likely failure, false 'prophets', sex-abusing pastors, and billionaires causing turmoil by backdoor or front door funding agitation and warping of reality to promote their hoarding-dissorder wealth extraction, sociopathy and psychopathy.

Go for it Australia. Interrupt the crooked, dirty game, but do it more thoroughly, wise to the fact that antisocial and bought agitators will kick up a fuss at anything which touches on responsibility or accountability.

#Australia #auspol #socialmedia #socialmediaban #teenager #abuse #hoardingbilionaires #realitywarps #radicalisation #radicalization

[Edited for typos : EFF]
The EFF is, thankfully, taking umbrage at Australia’s #AgeVerification legislation which came into force yesterday, and rightly so. However, with statements such as:

“If legislators want to meaningfully improve online safety, they should pass a strong, comprehensive federal privacy law instead of building new systems of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion.“

read more:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back

It’s missing the mark, not really providing a solution to the targeted problem, and may just cloud the issue (confusing parents/guardians mainly) while giving our polies a free pass. That’s just my opinion of course. But if you really wanted to tackle on-line bullying and curtail the hate, the racism, the disinformation, misinformation, and general toxicity that is prevalent on #TechBros platforms, you’d need to do more than just reform and strengthen #PrivacyLaws. Digital media is just like radio/TV/paper media with more functionality and reach which are #regulated worldwide (more or less depending on country of publication/broadcast). Hence, to hit the mark, this new govt legislation ought to have been a set of #Regulations imposed on digital media (of every kind) with penalties for failure to comply to have any meaningful benefits to society and its younger people.

Of course, more regulations is not what the EFF stands for, so no surprises there. Saying that, I do believe that the EFF does important work and is to be commended for that.

There are alternatives to BigTech platforms which are #safer more #inclusive already deployed on the #internet. And if our govt was truly looking after the health of our kids, then govt departments who have the #DutyOfCare to keep our kids safe could #Fund #instances of #Mastodon on the #Fediverse for #kids run by kids with oversight by health professionals as #Moderators — a glaringly obvious solution that no one is talking about (outside the fediverse that is).

/end_rant/
#AusPol #InternetAccess #SocialMedia #OnLineBullying #Doxing #Grooming #EatTheRich #Antifa #Radicalisation

Rappel du contexte : ACAB nonobstant.

A la télévision, le flic show permanent
⤵️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciY0sDPPevo

#Police
#ViolencesPolicères
#Radicalisation
#ExtrêmeDroite
#Fascisme
#ACAB

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