White nationalist groups ‘growing faster than ISIS’ on Twitter, as study finds 600 PER CENT Nazi boom in four years
Worrying study finds that far right groups have thrived on social media in recent years
WHITE supremacist groups are growing faster on social media than ISIS, experts have revealed.
A study concluded that groups like the American Nazi Party and National Socialist Movement have increased by more than 600 per cent over the last four years.
Only 3,500 people were believed to be following far-right groups when the study began.
But that figure has now spiralled to more than 22,000.
By comparison, ISIS - which has made a concerted effort to push its sick ideology via social media - has languished behind.
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JM Berger, conducting the study for the George Washington University, said: "On Twitter, ISIS’s preferred social platform, American white nationalist movements have seen their followers grow by more than 600 per cent since 2012.
“Today, they outperform ISIS in nearly every social metric, from follower counts to tweets per day.”
Twitter had made an effort to shut down extreme-Islamist accounts in recent months with more than 360,000 deactivated.
Social media has been used to push grisly videos of ISIS prisoners being executed.
The study monitored dozens of known far-right groups and recorded their most-used search terms.
Those referring to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump came second only to mentions of "white genocide".
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