Alex Newhouse is Deputy Director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC), a research center based at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, CA. He is an expert in far-right extremism, with a particular focus on online social networking behavior within and across extreme communities. He specializes in tracking coalitional, insurrectionary accelerationism, an apocalyptic movement that has an entrenched and increasingly dangerous presence within video game communities. He also has experience in the video game industry, both as a reporter for GameSpot and an analyst for PlayStation. Alex and his research have been cited in media outlets including the Washington Post, the New York Times, Vice, the Guardian, and the BBC. For more information about Alex, check out CTEC's expert page at https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/people/alex-newhouse.
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