Research Article

Complexity in Individual Trajectories toward Online Extremism

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Influence of geography. (a) Flow of future-ban individuals based on reported geographical locations in online profiles. The flow from country X to country Y is the number of individuals that change location from X to Y and is proportional to the thickness of the line. The line color corresponds to the originating country X. Each country’s node is at its geographic centre. Two individuals’ trajectories are listed as examples. Although Russia resembles a travel hub for all individual types because VKontakte has a large number of Russian users, many individuals’ pathways do not pass through it (e.g., user 1658609132). (b) Same as (a) but for individuals whose accounts are not eventually banned (“no-future-ban” individuals). For future-ban individuals (a), this country return rate while for no-future-ban individuals (b) , which is more than twice. (c) Scattering between countries is associated with a shift in the dependence of . Red line is for future-ban individuals who changed country at least once. Black line is for future-ban individuals who never changed country.
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