How White Supremacists incited panic and fear using social media propaganda at the University of Missouri
This post documents – in detail – how white supremacists used social media to create genuine fear and hysteria at the University of Missouri in late 2015. Summary White supremacists, KKK and/or neo Nazi’s used social media propaganda to incite fear and panic by falsely asserting that the KKK was on the University of Missouri campus and acting violently (Assertion, Lie). This propaganda created fear among the students, who then passed along frightening hoax statements and photos as facts, creating more…