Extremist groups continue to 'metastasize and recruit' after Capitol attack, study finds

[Eugene]

Related: After the insurrection (Atlantic Council)

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Source: The Guardian

Extremist groups continue to ‘metastasize and recruit’ after Capitol attack, study finds

The report says that while some groups were gripped with paranoia by the arrests, others began targeting local politics

Sergio Olmos
Tue 4 Jan 2022 18.56 GMT

In the year since the 6 January insurrection, many US extremist groups haven’t fully recovered from blows landed by increased scrutiny of law enforcement and purges from big tech social media platforms, a new report has found.

The research, by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, found that 12 months after the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob some far-right groups had been gripped by paranoia as authorities traced and arrested participants. But others had reorganized, often with an emphasis on local-level politics and a developing eco-system of far-right social media.

The report warned some groups have “made troubling progress by shifting to alternative online platforms, embracing rhetoric to engage more broadly with the mainstream conservative base and engaging in new political activities, particularly public health and education issues at the local level”.

The report’s author, Jared Holt, combined investigative reporting along with monitoring and analysis of open source information to produce a report on the characteristics of US extremism movements a year after the Capitol attack.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/04/extremist-groups-recruit-post-capitol-attack-new-study-finds

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1. No doubt the feds are monitoring their posts...they won't get caught again like 1/6