Photo / APThe social media posts are of a distinct type. White nationalists and supremacists, on accounts often run by young men, are building thriving, macho communities across social media platforms like Instagram, Telegram and TikTok, evading detection with coded hashtags and innuendo. "It seems intuitive that effective social media monitoring might provide clues to help law enforcement prevent attacks," German said. "After all, the white supremacist attackers in Buffalo, Pittsburgh and El Paso all gained access to materials online and expressed their hateful, violent intentions on social media." "They're trying to recruit," said Bloom, who has researched social media use for both Islamic State terrorists and far-right extremists.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 11, 2022 01:12 UTC