2 papers
cs.SI2025
Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml
Utkucan Balci, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn
This study investigates the presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad.ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy, from its launch in 2019 up to a month aft…
cs.SI2024
A Data-Driven Analysis of the Sovereign Citizens Movement on Telegram
Satrio Yudhoatmojo, Utkucan Balci, Jeremy Blackburn
Online communities of known extremist groups like the alt-right and QAnon have been well explored in past work. However, we find that an extremist group called Sovereign Citizens i…