How "Militia-Sphere" Platforms Have Grown Exponentially During COVID-19
A number of Americans, according to recent surveys, have grown frustrated with the restrictions on their freedoms and have begun registering those frustrations by calling for a relaxation of the lockdown orders and a reopening of society.
Within the ranks of those discontented, certain extremist subgroups have been coalescing demonstrably over social media into a “Militia-sphere" - in which the pandemic is dismissed as a political excuse or hoax to enable governments to curtail individual freedoms, and in which law enforcement officers and other government officials are portrayed as the willing instruments of this oppression, notes a new report presented by the Rutgers Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience and by the Network Contagion Research Institute.