The Soldiers of Odin Finland

Kotonen, Tommi

doi:10.4324/9780429485619-15

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“…Informed by recent research illustrating how similar nationalist, conspiratory, and radical right movements have successfully coordinated and scaled up their activities from grassroots level social media platforms (Finlayson, 2020;Kotonen, 2019;Laaksonen et al, 2020), we collected all CB and FF posts on Facebook between September and November 2015, from directly before the radical right's crisis frames found coverage, also, in journalistic media (Pyrhönen et al, 2021).…”

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In Search for Unexpected Allies? Radical Right Remediation of ‘the 2015 Refugee Crisis’ on Social Media

Bauvois

Pyrhönen

2022

Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

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This chapter analyses the remediation of the mainstream news cycle on the ‘refugee crisis’ to the social media audiences of two Finnish anti-immigration groups, namely ‘Close the Borders!’ and ‘Finland First’. The analysis focuses on the post-truth tropes employed by these groups as practices for subverting information and interpretations originally sourced to epistemic authorities. In doing so, the chapter provides a more nuanced approach to the post-truth tropes where the generation of ‘fake news’ and explicit disinformation is only the tip of the iceberg. The results show that by harnessing careful and context-sensitive remediation practices, the radical right is effectively able to hijack the news cycle with the alleged support from ‘unlikely allies’ among epistemic authorities.

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