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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing (www.404media.co)
submitted 3 months ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.

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[–] ValarieLenin@midwest.social 23 points 3 months ago

The facts don't care about feelings crowd over here deleting the facts...

[–] mvilain@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago

How can she talk? Her head is in such a dark place, I wonder how anyone can understand what she's saying.

Republican Party of Anorectal Inversion

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't have paid access to the linked article, so the following is only going off of what I can glean from the snippet of the article that is viewable without paying ^[1.1]^: One can view the allegedly ^[2]^ deleted study ^[1.2]^ here ^[3]^. The article is currently still unavailable from the NIJ ^[4]^.

References

  1. Type: Article. Title: "DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing". Author: "Emanuel Maiberg". Publisher: "404 Media". Published: 2025-09-16T12:25. Accessed: 2025-09-17T22:43Z. URI: https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/.

    2. DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

  2. Type: Meta. Accessed: 2025-09-17T23:05Z.
    • The word "allegedly" is used here as I am not currently aware of any official statement that the paper was deleted with intent.
  3. Type: Meta. Accessed: 2025-09-17T23:05Z
  • The archived link can be found at the following XPath in the article's ^[1]^ source: 
    //div[contains(@class, 'post-sneak-peek')]//p[2]/a[1]/@href
  1. Type: Meta. Accessed: 2025-09-17T23:05Z.
    • Navigating the the article's original URL ^[5]^ results in being redirected to the the main NIJ page at https://nij.ojp.gov/.
  2. Type: Meta. Accessed: 2025-09-17T23:05Z.
    • The article's original URL was taken from the archive URL ^[3]^ as follows: https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism -> https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism.