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BY STUART BENSON

November 16, 2022

Members of the right-wing Diagolon community, including its founder Jeremy MacKenzie, may downplay their online rhetoric with ironic humour and “memes,” but extremism researchers say the organization’s tactics are a continuation of those used by similar groups, like th...

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