Faces of radicalism: Differentiating between violent and non-violent radicals by their social media profiles

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Highlights:

• Comparing the Facebook behaviors of terrorists and non-violent radicals using a matched case-control design.

• Testing the predictive quality of factors derived from Social Learning Theory.

• Terrorists are more likely to post about a friend's terrorist attack already committed.

• Terrorists engage in more content sharing and non-violent radicals in more text-based posting.

• Automated detection approaches should integrate behavior-level factors to improve accuracy and reduce false-positives.

摘要

•Comparing the Facebook behaviors of terrorists and non-violent radicals using a matched case-control design.•Testing the predictive quality of factors derived from Social Learning Theory.•Terrorists are more likely to post about a friend's terrorist attack already committed.•Terrorists engage in more content sharing and non-violent radicals in more text-based posting.•Automated detection approaches should integrate behavior-level factors to improve accuracy and reduce false-positives.

论文关键词:Terrorism,Case-control,Social-media,Internet,Social-learning theory

论文评审过程:Received 27 June 2020, Revised 22 November 2020, Accepted 28 November 2020, Available online 7 December 2020, Version of Record 10 December 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106646