Stochastic Terrorism

"...Recent alterations to violent groups in the United States and to the composition of the two main political parties have created a latent force for violence that can be 1) triggered by a variety of social events that touch on a number of interrelated identities; or 2) purposefully ignited for partisan political purposes..."

"...At its core, stochastic terrorism exploits one of the strongest and most complicated emotions: disgust...political extremists create dangerous new strains of contempt and hatred..."

"...sensationalized claims by Trump represent a sliver of examples of how Trump summoned a mob to desecrate the Capitol building where five people died. This is stochastic terrorism as practiced by the president of the United States..."

"...the black pill produces a form of 'stochastic terrorism' in which users interpret its spectrum of beliefs to enact harms from online gender-based hate speech through terrorist violence in the offline world..."

"...This chapter takes a closer look at the role of the Internet, particularly for violent right-wing extremists. It also examines the question why only a few forums are used by terrorists to announce their attacks and distribute their propaganda. Even though most right-wing terrorists in recent years planned and committed their acts alone, it is evident that their target audience also takes an active role in the distribution of their propaganda and that this is anticipated by the perpetrators..."

"...The use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technology may seem to be the tools needed to combat media-inspired "lone wolf attacks" by implementing the concept of "stochastic terrorism," targeting harmful media influences. Machine Learning is in current use to sort through social media data to assess hate speech. Artificial Intelligence is in current use to interpret the data and trends processed by Machine Learning for tasks such as finding criminal networks. The question becomes "can stochastic terrorism be proven" and "should this be implemented..."