@article{Gill_2021, title={Fascist cross-pollination of Australian conspiracist Telegram channels}, volume={26}, url={https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11830}, DOI={10.5210/fm.v26i12.11830}, abstractNote={<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about trauma and uncertainty for vast swathes of the world population, including in Australia. One effect of this has been the growth of COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and general conspiracism. This article explores efforts by fascists and neo-Nazis to exploit the rise in conspiratorial thinking for recruitment and dissemination of their ideas. Five Australian conspiracist Telegram channels are studied for signs of fascist cross-pollination, and it is found that users with fascist sympathies attempt to influence the channels’ discourse through appeals to purported ideological and situational commonalities.</p>}, number={12}, journal={First Monday}, author={Gill, Gerard}, year={2021}, month={Dec.} }