Online extremism

Statistics report about online extremism

Online extremism

This report presents statistics on online extremism across mainstream social media platforms, alt-tech platforms, and internet forums. It also includes information on the different types of content removal, the world's largest incel forum, and anti-vaccination content.

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Overview

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  • Basic Statistic Worldwide digital population 2024
  • Premium Statistic Number of global social network users 2017-2027
  • Premium Statistic Global social network penetration 2019-2028
  • Premium Statistic U.S. leading social media platform users 2023, by political position
  • Basic Statistic U.S. adults on online harassment and severe harassment 2022, by identity group

Mainstream social media platforms

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  • Basic Statistic Facebook: searches for listed hate groups that redirect to anti-hate resources 2022
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: presence of listed hate groups on the platform 2022
  • Basic Statistic Far-right Facebook page followers per 100,000 users in selected countries 2020
  • Basic Statistic Global QAnon posts across social networks 2017-2020
  • Basic Statistic Countries producing the most QAnon tweets 2017-2020
  • Basic Statistic U.S. YouTube users viewing extremist or alternative channels 2020
  • Basic Statistic Telegram messenger global MAU 2014-2023

Alt-tech platforms

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  • Premium Statistic U.S. registered Gab user reach 2022, by age group
  • Premium Statistic U.S. registered Gab user reach 2022, by gender
  • Basic Statistic U.S. registered Gab user reach 2022, by party ID
  • Premium Statistic U.S. registered Truth Social user reach 2022, by age group
  • Premium Statistic U.S. registered Truth Social user reach 2022, by gender
  • Basic Statistic U.S. registered Truth Social user reach 2022, by party ID
  • Basic Statistic 4chan posts per 100,000 internet users in selected countries 2020
  • Basic Statistic Parler unique monthly visitors in the U.S. 2021-2022
  • Premium Statistic Rumble: quarterly global MAUs 2020-2023
  • Premium Statistic Discussions by influential accounts on alternative social media platforms 2022

Content removal

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  • Basic Statistic Facebook: terrorism content removal as of Q3 2023
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: hate speech content removal as of Q3 2023
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: spam content removal as of Q3 2023
  • Basic Statistic Discord: deleted servers Q4 2023, by violation
  • Basic Statistic Discord: banned accounts Q4 2023 by violation
  • Basic Statistic Discord: share of reported content actioned Q2 2023, by category
  • Basic Statistic Discord: reported actioned content Q4 2023, by category
  • Basic Statistic Instagram: hate speech-containing content removal as of Q3 2023
  • Basic Statistic Distribution of video comments removed from YouTube worldwide Q3 2023, by reason
  • Basic Statistic Share of videos removed from YouTube worldwide 2019-2023, by reason
  • Basic Statistic Social media platforms responses to anti-Muslim hate 2022

Incels

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  • Premium Statistic Monthly visits to forums related to biggest global incel forum 2022
  • Premium Statistic Global share of traffic to the biggest dedicated incel forum 2022, by country
  • Basic Statistic Links to websites from the biggest incel forum 2021-2022, by platform
  • Premium Statistic Share of posts on the biggest global incel forum including offensive slurs 2021-2022
  • Basic Statistic Users of the biggest global incel forum stance on rape 2022
  • Basic Statistic Monthly posts including violent terms on the biggest incel forum 2021-2022, by word

Sexism

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  • Basic Statistic Opinions on online abuse directed at women worldwide 2022
  • Basic Statistic Effects of harmful online contact worldwide 2022, by gender
  • Basic Statistic UEFA Women's Euro: types of online harassment during the group phase 2022
  • Basic Statistic UK women receiving social media harassment during COVID-19 2020, by platform
  • Basic Statistic UK: women and online harassment during COVID-19 2020, by ethnicity
  • Basic Statistic England Women's football team: online hate posts 2022, by platform
  • Basic Statistic England Women's football team: Twitter hate accounts owners 2022, by gender

Anti-vaccination

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  • Basic Statistic Global social media platforms growth of anti-vaxx followers 2020
  • Basic Statistic U.S. COVID-19 vaccine-hesitant adults social media and news consumption 2021
  • Basic Statistic Global social media platforms removal of anti-vaxx misinformation 2020
  • Basic Statistic U.S. adults who use social media for COVID-19 vaccines news 2021
  • Basic Statistic U.S. adults on the importance of social media for COVID-19 vaccine news 2021
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