The Justice Department has reportedly scrubbed a study that documented the frequency of far-right violence from its website, according to 404 Media.
“The number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism,” the opening paragraph of the study reads. “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”
The study, entitled “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism,” was published in January 2024 and hosted on the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs website. Per 404 Media, it was still accessible as recently as Sept. 12, but no longer is. Presently, it’s available via the Wayback Machine, which archives old versions of websites.
Daniel Malmer, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina studying online extremism, flagged the development on Saturday.
“It existed yesterday and is gone today,” Malmer wrote in a post on Bluesky.
