Why is antisemitism on the rise

&#;It was hard to take Nazi memes all that seriously when they were sandwiched between sassy cats&#;

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Syracuse&#;sWhitney Phillips— scholar of the darker corners of Internet culture, author of &#;The Oxygen of Amplification,&#; last seen here offering this dire observation/predictionlast winter — has a new paper outin Social Media + Society that might make be a bracing experience for some Nieman Lab readers.

When we think of the nightmarish edge of online culture — the trolling, the disinformation, the rage, the profound information pollution — it&#;s easy to think of the worst offenders.

4chan denizens, for-the-lulz trolls, actual Nazis — you know the type. But, she writes, maybe the origins of those phenomena aren&#;t only in those dark corners of Internet culture — maybe they&#;re also in the kind of good Internet culture, the kind that people sometimes get nostalg