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Amy Cooter, Director of Research, Academic Development, and Innovation at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury

Militia extremists, kicked off Facebook again, are regaining comfort in public view

Militias have been kicked off Facebook as they seek to reemerge into the public sphere. gorodenkoff/iStock / Getty Images Plus

When journalists sounded alarm bells in early May 2024 that more than 100 extremist militia groups had been organizing and communicating on Facebook, it wasn’t the first time militias had garnered attention for their online activities.

As a scholar of militias, I’ve seen extremists get kicked off Facebook before.

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