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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Desperate Tradwives: How far-right women weaponise social media – with Marie Le Conte and Eviane Leidig
Description: The far-right is often associated with angry white men — but their female counterparts might be even more dangerous. Dr Eviane Leidig, a postdoctoral fellow at Tilburg University and author of The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization. She joins Marie Le Conte in The Bunker, to discuss how these women weaponise social media to disseminate extremist ideologies. Dr Eviane Leidig’s book: The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online RadicalizationÂ
“These women are normalising and legitimising extreme ideas to mainstream audiences; they are not on fringe pl...