>COVID-19 DISINFORMATION BRIEFING NO. 2
>FAR-RIGHT MOBILISATION
>9th April 2020
>Across a range of platforms there has been increased discussion of the term corona-chan. Corona-chan is a meme relating to the pandemic which has entered the vernacular of the extreme right. It first appeared on the anonymous Yas Forums imageboard website.
>Although not all mentions of the term are extreme, this points towards the increased importance of fringe internet culture relating to COVID-19, and repeatedly we have found this term linked to explicit calls for violence.
>Increased mobilisation related to the term has been noted across Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Yas Forums.
How do I into online extreme-right humour?
Link to the full report:
isdglobal.org
Institute for Strategic Disinformation
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>The antisemitic mobilisation around COVID-19
>On Yas Forums and other fringe online platforms such as 8Kun, Gab and BitChute, conspiracy theorists deciphering the global COVID-19 pandemic provide further evidence on how extremists rely on well-worn antisemitic tropes to ground their beliefs.
>Conspiracies such as QAnon and #Pizzagate rely on a fictionalised group or cabal of powerful elites, often Jewish, who are controlling global events for criminal means.
>The billionaire investor George Soros and the Rothschild family are regular targets of these kinds of theories.
Muh Soros. Muh Rothschilds.
>On the surface, these claims of child murder and satanic rituals could appear simply gratuitous and deliberately provocative.
>However, an increase in focus on George Soros as a centrepiece of this conspiracy, and the consistent linkages to a Jewish cabal suggests a distinct antisemitic narrative.
>In particular, this is a direct reference to ‘blood libel’, a historic antisemitic trope which entangles Judaism with ritualistic human sacrifice and remains pervasive to this day.
>It is evident in narratives promoted by neo-Nazi groups and white supremacists, and it highlights an overlap in messaging from fringe conspiracy theorists and violent extremist groups.
>The introduction of human sacrifice into contemporary global events such as COVID-19 allows these narratives and messaging to gain traction across the ecosystem of social media and amplify hateful and extremist narratives.
academia is truly worthless
I'm in love with her.
W..w...with me? user-kun?
Worthless?
Yes you are.
Yes. But coronachan is a chink bioweapon, the WaPo article you posted was from January 29. You need to do your own research.
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*Ticks box*
>Yep, that's one more to add to our tally of 'Racist Bio-Weapon Conspiracies'.
What a shit job, imagine that.