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FASCIST-O-METER: Classifier for Neo-fascist Discourse Online
Rudy Alexandro Garrido Veliz, Martin Semmann, Chris Biemann, Seid Muhie Yimam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10789

FASCIST-O-METER: Classifier for Neo-fascist Discourse Online
Neo-fascism is a political and societal ideology that has been having remarkable growth in the last decade in the United States of America (USA), as well as in other Western societies. It poses a grave danger to democracy and the minorities it targets, and it requires active actions against it to avoid escalation. This work presents the first-of-its-kind neo-fascist coding scheme for digital discourse in the USA societal context, overseen by political science researchers. Our work bridges the g…