Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier

By: Michelle Lynn Kahn, University of Richmond, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: December 5, 2025

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Last Updated: 1 month ago

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By Michelle Lynn Kahn, University of Richmond

How can society police the global spread of online far-right extremism while still protecting free speech? That’s a question policymakers and watchdog organizations confronted as early as the 1980s and ’90s – and it hasn’t gone away.

Decades before artificial intelligence, Telegram and white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ livestreams, far-right extremists embraced the early days of home computing and the internet. These new technologies offered them …

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