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Moscow Attack: The Popularisation of Far-Right Conspiracy Theories in Mainstream Media
Introduction In the immediate aftermath of the 22 March attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall, social media was replete with misinformation, including conspiracy theories surrounding the affiliations of the perpetrators. Despite the terror cell Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) claiming responsibility for the mass shooting in a statement made to their Telegram and multimedia news outlet Amaq, users on 4chan and Instagram pointed to alternative culprits.
Despite the terror cell Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) claiming responsibility for the mass shooting in a statement made to their Telegram and multimedia news outlet Amaq, users on 4chan and Instagram pointed to alternative culprits. A third post, starting a new thread and accompanied by an image of a female Israeli soldier, reads: “Are there normies who still don’t believe they are a CIA/Mossad plant?” This user also writes that Islamic State “hasn’t done anything in years” and that they have suddenly appeared to carry out a “terrorist attack against a country they have nothing against” (Figure 2). The sentiment that the United States, Israel and any other government is implicitly involved in the carrying out of terrorism is a level of scepticism characteristic of the far- and alt-right on 4chan but also reflective of the r adical accelerationist view that a shadowy force of globalist Jews controls the world.
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