New research highlights dangers, directness, and purposes of online collective actions

Research
Written By IDSB Institute

5 December 2025

Cassie Lowery, Professor Laura Smith and Dr Lukas Meyer’s paper exploring ‘The dangers, directness, and purposes of online collective actions’ has been published in Political Psychology’. (Image credit: CREST)

Read it heret her work on the far right and extremism on the UK political commentary podcast ‘Oh God, What Now?’

She explains how a small number of far-right accounts weaponise tragedies like Southport and use AI and engagement tricks to fake grassroots, us-vs-them banter.

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