There’s a new tactic for exposing you to radical content online: the ‘slow red-pill’ | Joshua Citarella

The far right is trying to funnel people on Instagram to extreme content with a few simple tricks. Here’s how they do it

I spend a lot of time on Instagram. Not posting stories, but researching Gen Z online political subcultures. That’s how I first stumbled across a content strategy that I’ve dubbed the “slow red-pill”.

A red-pill – the name is taken from the famous scene in the Matrix – is something that opens your eyes to a hidden political “truth”. Once you’ve been red-pilled, you want other people to take the red-pill, too. Today, an essential part of online radicalization is the desire to spread this new knowledge to a larger audience.

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