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The QAnon security threat: a linguistic fusion-based violence risk assessment 

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This study compares the narratives and language of QAnon groups in the encrypted messaging apps Telegram and Discord to those observed in the manifestos of terrorists. Drawing on our systematic linguistic analysis of fifteen terrorist manifestos that were published in the past decade, we developed a coding scheme which traces the narratives and linguistic markers that occur in the written communication of perpetrators of political violence. In this pilot study we apply our new coding scheme t...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-1922-1204
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Role:
Author
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Oxford college:
Magdalen College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-6935-6724
Publisher:
Terrorism Research Initiative
Journal:
Perspectives on Terrorism More from this journal
Volume:
16
Issue:
6
Pages:
62-86
Publication date:
2022-12-01
Acceptance date:
2022-11-08
ISSN:
2334-3745
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1316512
Local pid:
pubs:1316512
Deposit date:
2022-12-21

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