DOJ GRANT INVESTIGATING ONLINE ‘EXTREMISM’ TARGETS RIGHT-WING FORUMS MORE THAN ISLAMIST SITES!!

The Department of Justice is concentrating on “far-right” groups in a new study of social media usage aimed at combatting violent extremism.

The Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded Michigan State University $585,719 for the study, which was praised by Eric Holder, the former attorney general, earlier this year.

“We will collect posts made in four active forums used by members of the far-right and three from the Islamic Extremist community, as well as posts made in Facebook, LiveJournal, Twitter, YouTube, and failbin accounts used by members of each movement,” the grant said.

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