FBI documents associate internet slang like ‘based’ and ‘red pill’ with ‘extremism’By Alexander Hall, Fox News
April 10, 2023
New documents released Monday warned that common internet lingo is being associated with “Violent Extremism” by the FBI.
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project said it used a Freedom of Information Act request to expose FBI documents that include glossaries showing that common internet slang has been flagged as an indication of “Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremism” or “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism.”
Part of the document refers specifically to “incels,” or those “involuntary celibate,” whom the “threat overview” describes as possibly seeking to “commit violence in support of their beliefs that society unjustly denies them sexual or romantic attention, to which they believe they are entitled.”
The assessment notes, “While most incels do not engage in violence,” some have been involved in “at least five lethal attacks in the United States and Canada.”
Many of the terms mentioned in the FBI’s list of incel terminology are either widely used across the internet or innocuous in nature.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/10/fbi-documents-associate-internet-slang-like-based-and-red-pill-with-extremism/
