Justice Department Studying ‘Far-Right’ Social Media Use

Free Beacon ^ | June 1, 2015 | Elizabeth Harrington

[lbryce]

The Department of Justice is concentrating on “far-right” groups in a new study of social media usage aimed at combatting violent extremism. The Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded Michigan State University $585,719 for the study, which was praised by Eric Holder, the former attorney general, earlier this year. “There is currently limited knowledge of the role of technology and computer mediated communications (CMCs), such as Facebook and Twitter, in the dissemination of messages that promote extremist agendas and radicalize individuals to violence,” according to the NIJ grant. “The proposed study will address this gap through a series of qualitative and quantitative analyses of posts from various forms of CMC used by members of both the far-right and Islamic extremist movements.”

The study draws more upon right-wing forums than upon the corners of the web inhabited by Islamist extremists.

“We will collect posts made in four active forums used by members of the far-right and three from the Islamic Extremist community, as well as posts made in Facebook, LiveJournal, Twitter, YouTube, and Pastebin accounts used by members of each movement,” the grant said. “The findings will be used to document both the prevalence and variation in the ideological content of posts from members of each movement,” the grant continued. “In addition, we will assess the value of these messages in the social status of the individual posting the message and the function of radical messages in the larger on-line identity of participants in extremist communities generally.”

The project will also “identify the hidden networks of individuals who engage in extremist movements based on geographic location and ideological similarities.”

[Neoliberalnot]

Being a centrist now gets one, or a group, classified as far right. Anything that opposes the left is far right.

[JimRed]

Who is doing the "studying"? Where do they work? What is our plan to neutralize them?

[JimRed]

This is an example of why the patriot act should be stay killed.

[ballplayer]

What about left wing kooks like Hillary and her tweets,what web sites does she frequent?

[GOPJ]

I saw violent extremism in Baltimore and Ferguson - - millions of dollars worth of property destroyed... deaths up since that time...

Is that what Holder wanted investigated?

Real thugs? Real violence? Or is the little racist going after traditional Americans? Tea Party members? We all know the answer...

[Excellence]

This is not new.

http://truthy.indiana.edu/about/

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

It is creepy. Is FR on their list?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The creepy part is that they would define Free Republic as “far-right extremist.” This is just wrong on so many levels.

[Gamecock]

Hey DOJ creeps who are no doubt "studying" Free Republic:

BITE ME!

[Tzimisce]

Hi DOJ agents!

How’s it going? :)

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Tell the damn Department of Just Us fools to stop making such Casses of themselves. We don't want a news or any other kind of czar and fetters.

Here's how President Obama's [former] head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and author of "Repulblic.com," Cass Sunstein, describes FreeRepublic.com as "group polarization," where people segregate themselves so effectively online with other like-minded thinkers that they create an echo chamber where the group's worst and most malevolent opinions get reinforced and strengthened. "We might want to consider," Sunstein startlingly told the Times recently, "the possibility of ways of requiring or encouraging sites to link to opposing viewpoints."

Cass Sunstein recently left the Administration to become an employee of Harvard.

[Uncle Miltie]

0bama is the Nazi.

mohemmmed was a pedophile.

death to liberalism

[generally]

Where is the study of far left social media use?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

To Obama, Holder, and now Lynch, there is no “left-wing extremism”. You see, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, and Vann Jones are not communist/Marxist extremists and terrorists/or wannabes, but just run-of-the-mill liberals.

Sort of like saying that Joseph Goebbels was just a communications specialist, and Heinrich Himmler was just a population control specialist.

From this Red (er White) House, there is no threat from the Left.

Considering that the Communist Party USA had the biggest role in getting Obama into politics and then the White House, I would say that there is a very “real threat from the Left”.

[a fool in paradise]

Investigating the so-called “far right” and Islamists.

Never mind the LONG history of bomb throwing communists in this nation or of left wing political assassins.

FUBO

[a fool in paradise]

Even when the Garland jihadists used Socialist Networking sites like twitter and fascist book to declare their impending attacks the useless observers in government let them act on their threat.

[a fool in paradise]

The extremist left wing were those parties in Floriduh that cost Al Gore Junior some votes (Socialist Party, Worker’s Party, Worker’s World Party, Socialist Worker’s Party... even WITHOUT the International Reds’ Green Party, those were sufficient votes to put Lil’ Al over the top).

Ideologically the DNC may be aligned with them but they siphon off votes.

[Nifster]

and the pogroms continue

[Jack Hammer]

It’s official: Big Brother IS watching... YOU.

[Drago]

Hello Michigan State students! What, no checking on social media/forums in regard to Weather Underground/Bill Ayers, Earth First!, Earth Liberation Front, CPUSA or M19CO?

http://fas.org/irp/world/para/left.pdf