There was a lull after Jan. 6 — but extremists picked up steam again after encouragement from far-right leaders like Steve Bannon, who instructed his podcast listeners to take back the U.S. at the local level.
Members of the Oath Keepers on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
But extremists picked up steam again after encouragement from far-right leaders like Steve Bannon, who instructed his podcast audience to take back the country “village by village” — meaning at the local level, she says.has now been taken up by extremist groups across the board, she says.
Extremists have gotten savvy about joining alternative online platforms and even creating their own in order to communicate, she says. A recent ProPublica investigation found that extremist content on Facebook grew significantly between the election and in the insurrection. And despite a crackdown by a lot of these big social media platforms to ban extremist content since Jan. 6, extremists continue to bolster alternative digital ecosystems such as Gab or Parler.
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