Platform Multiverse: Discontent and Disconnection among Alt-Rights

Abstract

Background: This article explores the platform multiverse of alt-rights, whereby groups and individuals, ideas, and discourses move across and between social platforms to avoid detection, suspension, and moderation. Analysis: This study examines disconnection practice among alt-rights as part of an affiliative assemblage that extends across multiple platforms and works to orient the disconnected toward reconnection. Conclusion and implications: Tracing this alt-right multiverse and the spatial and temporal intensities of disconnection practice exposes the discourses, habits, and interactions of alt-rights across new social platforms.