In the Blind Spot: How Right-Wing Extremists Use Alternative Platforms for Radicalisation

Signposts -- A Background Report on Right-Wing Extremist Online Subcultures by Dominik Hammer, Paula Matlach & Till Baaken

Right-wing extremist subcultures on the internet are subsequently thriving, and have gained additional The second part of the report is devoted to the momentum following protests against the German conceptual groundwork of the research project. [...] The goal was to identify research groups have differentiated themselves.8 The online gaps and position the project in the context of the spectrum includes websites of political parties and existing research. [...] capitalised on the evolution of the internet.2 Forums As the internet and its capabilities changed, so did the online strategies of the far-right. [...] In 2021, the Federal Office In turn, the use of irony has aided online recruitment for the Protection of the Constitution included this efforts by extremist movements by making it easier blog in its list of ‘observed objects’. The Bavarian State to participate in extreme ideologies, as the success Office for the Protection of the Constitution recognises of right-wing extremist community building. [...] A definition of right-wing extremism Basic Law is emphasised in the definition of right-wing must be broad enough to encompass new right-wing extremism by the Federal Office for the Protection extremist movements, and at the same time precise of the Constitution, which was also analysed for the enough to grasp the phenomenon and withstand working definition: scrutiny.

 London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), 2022. 23p.