is a postdoctoral researcher at King’s College, London, working on the AHRC funded research project Everything Is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of the Internet. She was awarded a PhD from UEA in 2020 for research into digital antifeminism and the far right, and is also the UK correspondent for the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
Millions of people are consuming, repeating and disseminating far-right ‘culture war’ material online, but if you do not seek out that content and are not served it by algorithms, you may never know it was there.
Alt-right extremism is a consequence of mainstream neo-conservative discourse on liberalism, manhood and national security post-9/11. Its success is measured by its ability to project an updated rhetoric of anti-left antagonism into the window of acceptable political discourse.
