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The European Far-Right Online: An Exploratory Twitter Outlink Analysis of German and French Far-Right Online Ecosystems

Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo, Kamil Yilmaz Orcid Logo, Chamin Herath, JM Berger, Suraj Lakhani Orcid Logo, Lella Nouri Orcid Logo, Maura Conway Orcid Logo

Swansea University Authors: Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo, Kamil Yilmaz Orcid Logo, Lella Nouri Orcid Logo, Maura Conway Orcid Logo

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Seeking to explore the nature of European far-right online ecosystems, this research report examines the outlinking activity of identified pro-far-right users among the followers of the official Twitter accounts of two prominent far-right European political parties, Germany’s Alternative für Deutsch...

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Online Access: https://doi.org/10.37805/remve2022.2
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