[Air-L] Looking for Right Wing and Extremist Forums for Web Scraping

[Shulman, Stu]

Seconding Jean-Hugues about Gettr and Li about Gab. Both platforms are
actively promoted by Twitter/X users, which provides an access point for
thinking about cross-platform radicalization networks. It may also explain
why the owner of X has no concerns about losing billions if he can
mainstream or accelerate access to these alt-right threat-generation sites.
Among the problems in this data are open threats to kill doctors who
promote vaccine use.

Gettr
https://vimeo.com/showcase/9113601

Gab
https://vimeo.com/showcase/8704426

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 11:13 PM Roy, Jean-Hugues via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Hi Rod
>
> I'd also suggest Gettr, which has an undocumented API surprisingly easy to
> tap into.
> For example, here is a random user's posts:
> https://api.gettr.com/u/user/dleeb/posts?offset=0&max=20
>
> The same user's followers:
> https://api.gettr.com/u/user/dleeb/followers?max=20&offset=0
>
> You can retreive only 20 posts/users per call, changing the offset to 20,
> 40 etc. allows you to go down the list.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> JHR
>
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> De : Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> de la part de Rod Graham via
> Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Envoyé : 28 juillet 2023 21:57
> À : air-l at listserv.aoir.org <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Objet : [Air-L] Looking for Right Wing and Extremist Forums for Web
> Scraping
>
> Does anyone know of a web forum (or even an open-to-the-public Facebook or
> Reddit page) where Right and Far-Right politics are being discussed? These
> are remarkably hard to find! I am looking for spaces that have been in
> operation for at least a few years so I can chart changes over time.
>
> Roderick Graham
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Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Founder and CEO, Texifter
Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*