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The OP article refers to the following research:

“As described by leading scholars, stochas­tic terrorism involves ‘the use of mass media to provoke random acts of ideolog­i­cally motivated violence that are statistically predictable but individually unpre­dict­able’ (Hamm and Spaaij, 2017)”

maybe inciting “distributed mob violence” would be a better way to translate it for laymen.



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