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Far-Right Spreads COVID-19 Disinformation Epidemic Online

2020-05-05 19:14:48| TechNewsWorld

Far-right groups and individuals in the United States are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to promote disinformation, hate, extremism and authoritarianism. "COVID-19 has been seized by far-right groups as an opportunity to call for extreme violence," states a report from ISD, based on a combination of natural language processing, network analysis and ethnographic online research.

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