Are Young, White Males Being Radicalized Online?
This thread is fascinating.
One of the narratives going into Election Day was that there were millions of undercover Donald Trump voters. These were people interested in voting for the Republican candidate but afraid of the stigma associated with doing so publicly. The thinking went that they would say one thing in polls, then go to the voting booth and do another.
Whether that was a widespread phenomenon is still unclear, but one observer, Siyanda Mohutsiwa, thinks that may have been the case with young white Americans in the so-called "alt-right." Perhaps more crucially, though, Mohutsiwa points to a pattern of online radicalization where in-group members are insulated from dissenting information and encouraged to camouflage their allegiances: