Tamar Mitts’s “Safe Havens for Hate” arrives at a moment when debates over online extremism and platform regulation are increasingly urgent—and increasingly polarized. Governments have begun to implement more stringent rules on the largest social media companies, while extremist movements continue to migrate and adapt, exploiting gaps in the regulatory landscape. Mitts seeks to explain this dynamic, and she does so with an ambition that distinguishes her work from much of the more anecdotal or narrowly focused literature in the field: She draws on data tracking the online activity of 114 militant and hate organizations across 67 platforms, supplementing this with qualitative case studies of the Islamic State, the Proud Boys, QAnon, and the Taliban.
Whack-a-Mole No More: How Extremists Choose Their Digital Safe Havens | Lawfare
