It's all here folks.
This report surfaced on Sup Forums a couple of weeks ago
A Longitudinal Measurement Study of Sup Forums’s Politically
Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
>arxiv.org
Which makes some strong assertions about this place.
>Despite its influence and coverage in the media, Sup Forums remains
largely unstudied from a scientific perspective. In this paper,
we start addressing this gap by focusing on one sub-community,
namely, “Sup Forums”, i.e., the “Politically Incorrect” board. Sup Forums is, to
some extent, considered a “containment” board, allowing users
to discuss generally distasteful content (even by Sup Forums standards)
without disturbing the operations of other boards. Even though
Sup Forums’s contents do revolve around politically incorrectness, a simple
visual scan of discussions at any given time makes it clear that
the majority of posters subscribe to the “alt-right” movement, exhibiting
characteristics of xenophobia, social conservatism, racism,
and, generally speaking, hate.
However, when we look into the acknowledgements. We find:
This research
is supported by the European Union’s H2020-MSCA-RISE
grant “ENCASE” (Grant Agreement No. 691025) and by the EPSRC
under grant EP/N008448/1
ENCASE who have a shitty website here:
>encase.socialcomputing.eu
demonstrating that they directly recieved funding from here:
>cordis.europa.eu
>to the tune of over 2 million euros
with the express aim of:
implement[ing] a browser-based architecture for the protection of minors from malicious actors in online social networks. The ENCASE user-centric architecture will consist of three distinct services, which can be combined to form an effective protective net against cyberbullying and sexually abusive acts
>ie/ to control the internet
