Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 08/05/2026“AI does not create radicalization out of the blue. But the technology can amplify known psychological mechanisms and make it easier for extreme ideas to gain a foothold among those who are already at risk.” apple.news/Aa4nqZeXPSwW... 041
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 11/04/2026AI | People who show violent extremist tendencies on ChatGPT to be directed to human and chatbot‑based deradicalisation support… m-economictimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/m.econom... 131
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 10/04/2026ONLINE | Users who are involved in spreading hate speech do not behave randomly but they have clear behavior patterns. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 030
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Great monthly round up! observatorioterrorismo.com/analisis/ana... 003
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 15/03/2026PSYCHOLOGY | Researchers like UCSD’s Dimsdale fear that social media is now a vector for coercive persuasion, just as Meerloo worried about television’s mind-control powers in the 1950s. www-technologyreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.tech... 022
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Researchers from various disciplines investigate far-right extremism and its societal contexts. uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties... 020
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 02/03/2026DRIVERS OF RIGHT WING RADICALISM | Great study by Helbling, Jungkunz & Osenbrügge looking at Socio-psychological predictors of radicalism, extremism, and fundamentalism. Material deprivation = biggest driver of right-wing radicalism (RWR) and general extremism (GEX). www.nature.com/articles/s41... 142
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 01/03/2026This was a good projection chart we spotted in the Guardian.. 010
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 01/03/2026MIGRATION | Fascinating visual analysis by Rob Ford, professor of political science at the University of Manchester and reported in the Guardian shows how MPs’ language towards immigration today compares with previous decades. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-... 011
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 15/02/2026National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a thinktank, likened the effect to Brexit, saying that if net migration fell to zero, it would knock 3.7% off the UK’s annual national income by 2040. apple.news/ALZ1xFDG1Q2C... 192
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Donald Trump said Ukraine has “zero gratitude” for his efforts to end the war following splits over 28-point peace plan. If it weren’t so pathetically predictable, developments in Washington pertaining to Trump’s 28-point peace plan for Ukraine would stretch credulity. apple.news/ARnsPGJR5Tba... 173
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 06/09/2025In fairly short order, the far right have gone from fringe lunatics to a supermarket ideology: different aisles for different resentments, all under one roof of hate. Cheap conspiracies. Hyper-masculinity. Cultural grievance. Violence. And its rubbing off on our kids www.linkedin.com/posts/drrobw... 820974
Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Pleased to be invited on Times Radio Breakfast this week to talk about the disinformation surge following the Liverpool FC parade incident. @listentotimesradio.bsky.social x.com/drrobwray/st... 061