Craig Timberg and Drew Harwell wrote an excellent article about out most recent paper, “A Quantitative Approach to Understanding Online Antisemitism“. Their article, “Racism and anti-Semitism surged in corners of the Web after Trump’s election, analysis shows” discusses our finding about the nature of alt-right social networks and how real world events such as Trump’s election, inauguration, and the Charlottesville protests markedly increased anti-black and anti-semitic rhetoric and memes in these networks. They also explain how hateful memes such as “The Happy Merchant” themed memes are created in alt-right networks and move to more mainstream social networks.
