Digital technology enables unprecedented circulation of historically rooted racist imagery.

Evidence

These are images which are not in themselves new, since they have been part of antisemitic ideas for some time and were articulated in a different form by the Nazis in their attempt to dehumanize Jews. Sophisticated digital technology is enabling these products of the racist imagination to be circulated in an unprecedented way. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2575

Categorization

• QUESTION: What is the causal mechanism by which digital platforms amplify rather than merely speed the spread of such imagery? Is it scale, or a qualitatively different epistemic effect?