Radicalization

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Radicalization (or radicalisation), also known as extremization (or extremisation), is the process by which an individual or a group comes to adopt increasingly radical views in opposition to a political, social, or religious status quo. The ideas of society at large shape the outcomes of radicalization. Radicalization can result in both violent and nonviolent action – academic literature focuses on radicalization into violent extremism (RVE) or radicalisation leading to acts of terrorism. Multiple separate pathways can promote the process of radicalization, which can be independent but are us

tendency of a group to make more extreme decisions than the inclinations of its members

terrorism caused by deliberately inflammatory rhetoric in mass media, which can provoke people with certain sets of personality traits and opinions into violence

beliefs and actions of people who support or use ideologically motivated violence to achieve radical ideological, religious or political views

hypothesis that social media algorithms drive political radicalization