TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate

Figures & data

Chart 1. Language frequencies.

Table 1. Channel and languages.

	Language of content
Channel	English	German	Arabic	French	Russian	Total
Extreme Right
ERW Channel 1	22	0	0	0	0	22
ERW Channel 2	91	0	0	0	0	91
ERW Channel 3	75	0	0	0	0	75
ERW Channel 4	24	0	0	0	0	24
ERW Channel 5	320	7	0	0	0	327
ERW Channel 6	1	0	0	0	0	1
ERW Channel 7	1	0	0	0	0	1
Jihadist
Jihadist Channel 1	5	0	120	2	0	127
Jihadist Channel 2	7	0	336	1	4	348
Total	546	7	456	3	4	1016

Chart 2. Content frequencies.

Table 2. Channels and content types.

Channel	Content type
	Text	Image	Video	Audio	Total
Extreme Right
ERW Channel 1	7	14	1	0	22
ERW Channel 2	5	47	39	0	91
ERW Channel 3	9	42	24	0	75
ERW Channel 4	2	6	16	0	24
ERW Channel 5	306	7	14	0	327
ERW Channel 6	0	1	0	0	1
ERW Channel 7	1	0	0	0	1
Jihadist
Jihadist Channel 1	17	65	43	2	127
Jihadist Channel 2	22	107	213	6	348
Total	369	289	350	8	1016

Table 3. Viewership by groups.

	Viewership
Channel	Total views	Average number of views per posting
Extreme right
ERW Channel 1	303	18.9
ERW Channel 2	3,779	38.9
Rooney	4,248	56.6
ERW Channel 4	808	33.6
ERW Channel 5	1,243	3.8
ERW Channel 6	5	5
ERW Channel 7	25	25
Jihadist
Jihadist Channel 1	939,740	7,399
Jihadist Channel 2	2,421,500	6,958
Total	3,371,651	3,318

Table 4. Visual and verbal violence by channel.

Channel	Presence of visual violence in post
	Not present	Present	Total
Extreme Right
ERW Channel 1	8	14	22
ERW Channel 2	22	69	91
Rooney	53	22	75
ERW Channel 4	5	19	24
ERW Channel 5	303	23	326
ERW Channel 6	1	0	1
ERW Channel 7	1	0	1
Jihadist
Jihadist Channel 1	57	70	127
Jihadist Channel 2	99	249	348
Total	549	466	1015
Channel	Presence of verbal violence in post
	Not present	Present	Total
Extreme Right
ERW Channel 1	10	12	22
ERW Channel 2	36	55	91
Rooney	43	31	74
ERW Channel 4	10	14	24
ERW Channel 5	302	15	317
ERW Channel 6	1	0	1
ERW Channel 7	1	0	1
Jihadist
Jihadist Channel 1	36	66	102
Jihadist Channel 2	92	216	308
Total	531	409	940

Note: There are differences between the total number of items in Table 1 and the total numbers in Tables 4 and 5. The differences are due to few unreadable content that could not be content analyzed and thus became missing values.

Table 5. Visual and verbal violence by ideology.

Ideology	Presence of visual violence in post
	Not present	Present	Total
Extreme-Right	83	17	100% 540)
Jihadist	32	68	100% (410)
Ideology	Presence of Verbal Violence in Post
	Not Present	Present	Total
Extreme-Right	76	24	100% (540)
Jihadist	31	69	100% (410)