Hate & Extremism
Reporting on organized hate, extremism and dehumanization on social platforms — and what holds it to account.
Hate & ExtremismOnline Hate Is Driving Malaysia's Rohingya Into Hiding
A viral petition and a flood of dehumanizing posts have driven Rohingya refugees in Malaysia from their homes and schools. Reuters, AFP and Al Jazeera report a 2026 online hate campaign with offline consequences.
Recruited at 15 in Group Chats, a Teenage Neo-Nazi Cell Is Sentenced in Hamburg
On Aug. 5, 2026, a Hamburg court sentenced eight members and supporters of 'Last Defense Wave,' a far-right cell that prosecutors say recruited children as young as 15 through chat apps. The defendants, aged 14 to 21 when the group formed online in 2024, were convicted of attempted murder, arson and assault.
Abdul El-Sayed Won a Senate Primary. Then ‘Inshallah’ Was Turned Into a Weapon
Days after Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary on Aug. 4, 2026, a coordinated online campaign turned the word 'inshallah' from his victory speech into an Islamophobic attack. Researchers traced nearly 2,000 amplifying accounts in 24 hours.
The Chat Rooms That Built a Neo-Nazi Cell
A Hamburg court on Aug. 5, 2026, sentenced eight members and supporters of the far-right cell 'Last Defense Wave' after a campaign of arson against refugee shelters. Prosecutors said it recruited teenagers on Instagram and TikTok and organized across more than 70 chat rooms.
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The Massacre Videos Australia Says Telegram Left Online
On July 30, 2026, Australia's eSafety regulator took Telegram to Federal Court, alleging it failed to remove videos of the Christchurch and Buffalo massacres and Islamic State beheadings — a day after Russia charged the app's founder with terrorism.
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'Piss Off Back to Pakistan': Pauline Hanson's Post Was Racism, Australia's Court Confirms
Australia's Full Federal Court on July 27, 2026, upheld that One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's 'piss off back to Pakistan' reply to Senator Mehreen Faruqi was unlawful racial discrimination, not protected free speech.
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A Deadline for Migrants to Leave, Set on Facebook
By late July 2026, an anti-migrant movement that began online has helped drive tens of thousands of foreign nationals from their homes in South Africa. Operation Dudula, born on social media, set a deadline for migrants to leave — and in places it was enforced with violence.
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Radicalised Online, Three Teenagers Planned to Kill in Singapore
On July 27, 2026, Singapore's Internal Security Department said it had detained three self-radicalised teenagers — aged 14, 15 and 19 — who were preparing attacks in the city-state. One had planned a mass-casualty stabbing at his school after being drawn into extremist content online, including through games on Roblox.
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A Woman Died at Berlin Pride. The Suspect Was Convicted for ISIS Posts, Then Freed.
On July 25, a woman was killed and 29 injured when a van struck crowds at Berlin's Christopher Street Day. The suspect, shot dead by police the next day, had been convicted two months earlier for publishing Islamic State propaganda on Instagram, then released.
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A White-Nationalist March, Staged for the Feed
On July 4, masked members of the white-nationalist group Patriot Front marched in Washington. Researchers say the spectacle was engineered as online propaganda to spread 'great replacement' rhetoric and recruit.
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A 14-Year-Old, a Manifesto, and a Plot Against Two Mosques
A 14-year-old boy pleaded not guilty on July 16, 2026, to plotting a terrorist attack on two south London mosques, in a case British police link to extreme right-wing ideology and online radicalization.
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Mbappé Scored a Penalty. A Senator Answered With Racism.
After Kylian Mbappé's July 4 penalty knocked Paraguay out of the World Cup, a Paraguayan senator racially abused him on X. French prosecutors opened a hate inquiry as FIFA reported a 13-fold surge in abusive posts.
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Three Penalties Missed, a Flood of Racist Abuse
After the Netherlands lost a World Cup penalty shootout to Morocco on June 29, three Black Dutch players who missed were swamped with racist messages online. The Dutch federation referred the abuse to prosecutors on July 3.
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The Group Chats Behind a White House Plot
Prosecutors say eight men met and radicalized in encrypted chats and social-media forums before plotting a drone-and-sniper attack on a UFC event at the White House. Two pleaded not guilty on July 16, 2026.
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The Riots Facebook Later Apologized For
Anti-Muslim riots swept Sri Lanka's Kandy district in 2018 after inflammatory posts spread on Facebook. The government blocked the platform nationwide, and Facebook later apologized for its role.
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Germany Logs an Antisemitic Incident Every 50 Minutes
A German monitoring network recorded 994 antisemitic incidents in the month after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, a jump of more than 300% over a year earlier. Investigators tied part of the surge to online hate.
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The Town They Told to Belong to One Faith
In early 2018 a video urging Sinhalese to converge on the Sri Lankan town of Digana spread on Facebook before anti-Muslim riots killed people and burned homes. Facebook later apologised for its role.
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A Teenager, a Manifesto and Ten Dead in Buffalo
Payton Gendron killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022 after being radicalized online. A New York attorney general's report found fringe platforms and livestreaming incubated and amplified his plans.
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The 'Invasion' He Posted to 8chan
Minutes before killing 23 people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, the gunman uploaded a screed to 8chan citing a 'Hispanic invasion.' Prosecutors traced how the imageboard's culture fed the attack.
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The Algorithm That Boosted a Junta
Weeks after Myanmar's 2021 coup, and after Facebook banned the military, a rights group found the platform's recommendation algorithm still steering users to pro-army pages that broke its rules.
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One Tweet in Seven: Amnesty Measures the Abuse Aimed at India's Women in Politics
A crowdsourced Amnesty International study of the 2019 Indian election found that about one in seven tweets mentioning women politicians was problematic or abusive, with Muslim and lower-caste women targeted far more.
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The Massacre That Streamed for Seventeen Minutes
New Zealand's Royal Commission found the Christchurch mosque gunman, who killed 51 people in 2019 and livestreamed the attack on Facebook, was radicalised largely through YouTube and Facebook.
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Eleven Prayers and a Post on Gab
Before killing 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the gunman steeped himself in antisemitic content on Gab and posted a final message minutes before opening fire. His trial made the fringe network central evidence.
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Death Threats That Preceded a Governor's Murder
Walter Lubcke defended taking in refugees, then endured years of online hate and death threats. In 2019 a right-wing extremist shot him dead at home.
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A Lie Spread Online, and a Man Was Burned Alive
A false blasphemy accusation spread on social media. In June 2024 a mob in Pakistan's Swat Valley stormed a police station and burned a detained tourist alive.
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A Rally Planned in a Chat Server
Before the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, organizers coordinated on a private Discord server where some joked about driving cars into counter-protesters. The logs later became evidence in a civil trial.
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A Helmet Camera Aimed at a Locked Door
On Yom Kippur 2019, a gunman livestreamed his failed attempt to storm a synagogue in Halle, Germany, on Twitch. A recording of the feed reached about 2,200 people before it was removed.
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A Fake Account, a Burned Quran, a Town in Ashes
In September 2012, a desecration image tagged to a fake Facebook account in a Buddhist man's name triggered mobs that destroyed Buddhist temples and homes in Ramu, Bangladesh. The accused man had never posted it.
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The Genocide Facebook Helped Broadcast
Years before Myanmar's military drove out the Rohingya, hate speech spread on Facebook. UN investigators and Amnesty International later found the platform's design amplified it.
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