Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet - and AI is their next frontier

[marmar]

Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier
Published: December 5, 2025 8:16am EST

Michelle Lynn Kahn
Associate Professor of History, University of Richmond


(The Conversation) How can society police the global spread of online far-right extremism while still protecting free speech? That’s a question policymakers and watchdog organizations confronted as early as the 1980s and ’90s – and it hasn’t gone away.

Decades before artificial intelligence, Telegram and white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ livestreams, far-right extremists embraced the early days of home computing and the internet. These new technologies offered them a bastion of free speech and a global platform. They could share propaganda, spew hatred, incite violence and gain international followers like never before.

Before the digital era, far-right extremists radicalized each other primarily using print propaganda. They wrote their own newsletters and reprinted far-right tracts such as Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and American neo-Nazi William Pierce’s “The Turner Diaries,” a dystopian work of fiction describing a race war. Then, they mailed this propaganda to supporters at home and abroad.

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Up next: AI

The next frontier for far-right extremists is AI. They are using AI tools to create targeted propaganda, manipulate images, audio and videos, and evade detection. The far-right social network Gab created a Hitler chatbot that users can talk to. ...............(more)

https://theconversation.com/far-right-extremists-have-been-organizing-online-since-before-the-internet-and-ai-is-their-next-frontier-269271

[littlemissmartypants]

1. I guess we'll just have to break out the old landlines and when they fail...

We're going to have to talk face to face. God forbid.



Seriously, very little of what's on the internet can be trusted anymore.

It's becoming a colossal waste of time especially for interpersonal communication.