Fascist movements, formal or otherwise, operate much like cults. When one joins them, they are at first overwhelmed with the appearance of validation and support. This is called "love bombing" and it's meant to endear you to them, to become dependent on them to meet your emotional needs. Then that validation and support is gradually withheld in order to pressure the target into severing ties with the "normie" world. They drive away anyone outside of their hateful little bubble. So their entire network of social support depends on how useful they can be to the cause. It's the only way they can feel part of something anymore because nobody else wants anything to do with them at this point.

La désinformation en ligne fait partie intégrante de la stratégie des extrêmes droites, tandis que les formations de gauche, qu’elles soient radicales, écologistes ou sociales-démocrates, ont moins recours à cette pratique, selon une étude récente réalisée par des universitaires néerlandais.