>>11863 thx anon, added to the database of anti-Q/8chan articles. How Telegram Became White Nationalists' Go-To Messaging Platform 10-7-19 by Tess Owen VICE News analyzed 150 public-facing far-right Telegram channels and found that more than two-thirds were created in the first eight months of 2019. And not only do white nationalists have a much more robust presence on Telegram than they did two years ago, but their channels have grown more sophisticated, violent and terroristic over time.... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nk3a/how-telegram-became-white-nationalists-go-to-messaging-platform ----------
This article is yet another example of pseudo-scientific methodology used to whip us the masses, where the author throws around some scary numbers but provides no real scientific sauce. Like for this quote here: "White nationalist extremists were responsible for at least 50 deaths in the U.S. in 2018, up 35% over the previous year."
50 deaths? Well, I guess they must mean murders. But what kind of murders--just those done by mass shooters? And how did they operationalize their definition of "white supremicist"? What were the figures for the previous 5 years? Is there a trend or what?
50 is a TINY number compared to total deaths (say, from murder) in either the US or the world. But they never give the base rates (i.e., total number of murder deaths).
