Radicalizing Online

Radicalization is the transition into acceptance and approval of extremist beliefs actions, including condoning or committing acts violence. In recent decades, internet has played a crucial role in radicalization extremists terrorists, as well facilitating radical groups' recruitment efforts. The present review briefly discusses what how it unfolds general sense, before exploring involved three kinds radicalization. first deliberate new members formally organized groups (e.g. white supremacist militias Islamic terror groups), second self-radicalization via internet, wherein unstable, discontent, and/or disenfranchised individuals pursue increasingly ideas communities online until they condone commit violence on their own, without formal membership an group. third type explored stochastic probabilistic radicalization, which encounter seemingly actually benign ideas, beliefs, pundits online, are slowly radicalized bold dramatic content being suggested by recommendation algorithms Google Youtube. clarifies some distinctions between types, brief summary discussion.
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