The $787.5 million that Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems to settle the lawsuit against the cable network appears to be one of the largest settlements in a defamation case in U.S. history. nyti.ms/3MTXWZl

Yes, it's overturning democratic elections on the flimsiest of excuses.

For those keeping score at home...

Things that WILL NOT get you expelled from the TN state legislature:
- child molestation
- domestic violence
- federal investigation
- peeing on your colleague's chair

Things that will:
- fighting to protect kids from gun violence

Three kids and three officials gunned down in yet another mass shooting.

And what are GOP officials focused on?

Punishing lawmakers who joined thousands of peaceful protesters calling for action.

It's shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent.

Growth opportunities in American and British terrorism research - Sophia Moskalenko, Joshua D. Freilich, Steven Chermak, Jeff Gruenewald, and Clark McCauley, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

US Soldier Jailed for Satanic Neo-Nazi Plot to Kill Troops in Al Qaeda Attack vice.com/en/article/wxj… via @vicenews

Masking the true nature of the terrorist threat to the U.S. is incredibly dangerous. As our forthcoming PIRUS dataset update will show, domestic extremists make up the vast majority of the terrorist offenders who commit crimes in the U.S each year. Here's a recent breakdown:

Important implications for the field. Communication studies scholars take note.

🚨OUT NOW🚨

'Some men just want to watch the world burn', said Alfred about the Joker. Do you feel this is true in politics too?

In American Political Science Review, we provide evidence of a 'Need for Chaos' in the US electorate & dissect its causes & consequences: doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

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It’s finally in print, y’all!

Massive update to Domestic Radicalization Project at UMD START 's PIRUS data coming soon (next week-ish). In addition to ~1,000 new cases and several new variables, the data now include network connections of 5,000 U.S. extremist offenders and 500 extremist groups, who form more than 18,000 dyadic relationships.

I'm incredibly excited to share this CFP with you all!
Meghan Conroy, Dr. Meredith L. Pruden, Ayşe (Aisha) D Lokman, and I are editing a volume titled 'Banal Fascism Online: Weaponizing the 'Everyday' for Extreme Ends.'

Submit your abstracts by March 31st!
banal-fascism.github.io

ChatGPT is everywhere and everyone is using it.

But most academics don't know how to use it *smartly.*

Here's how to use ChatGPT intelligently (and ethically) for academic purposes:

Inspired by their experience performing the play #LetterstoSala , these student actors from Decatur, GA came to NYC to see my mother's letters, saved from concentration camps, at @NYPL. Amazing. Thx Anthony Lemieux. #HolocaustMemorialDay nypl.org/blog/2023/02/0…

We have a full February! A new new lecture series kicking off on 15 Feb., a workshop on ‘Content Moderation and (Violent) Extremism’ on 16 Feb., and a new report releasing this month also. The events are online #allwelcome ; for more info on them: voxpol.eu/events/.

In the latest issue of Perspectives on Terrorism, Judith Tinnes, Darius Engel and I compiled a bibliography on #Accelerationism . I hope it has turned out to be a useful guide to the current state of research on the topic. With about 33 pages of 1/4 researchgate.net/publication/36…

In case you missed it in the holiday madness: Bruce Hoffman and I analyzed the key threats and trends in domestic and international terrorism heading into 2023, for the CTC at West Point Sentinel’s 15th anniversary edition.

Council on Foreign Relations @CJC_info ctc.westpoint.edu/the-terrorist-…

#Breaking :

Raw Story has obtained exclusive chats leaked by an infiltrator that show neo-Nazi accelerationists discussing an Atomwaffen offshoot called National Socialist Resistance Front as being tied to the Moore County power grid attack. rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

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