A Physicist's Take on Online Hatred and Extremism

"Do we really have to live with this?"Like many of us, that's what Dr. Neil Johnson wondered when the news highlighted yet another seemingly random violent terrorist attack back in 2014. But unlike many of us, he and his colleagues turned to science in search of an answer. A one-day data sample showing the network of pro-ISIS groups on VKontakte during January 2015. The small white dots are individual users while the red and green circles indicate the particular pieces of gel (i.e. online group)...