EurekAlert  May 19, 2021 A team of researchers in the US (George Washington University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, industry) compared the growth of the Boogaloos, a new and increasingly prominent U.S. extremist movement, to the growth of online support for ISIS, a militant, terrorist organization based in the Middle East to understand any system-level commonalities in the ways these movements emerge and grow. They showed that the early dynamics of these two online movements follow the same mathematical order despite their stark differences and the evolution of both movements, across scales, follows a single shockwave equation that accounts for heterogeneity […]