Miro Dittrich

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About Miro Dittrich

Miro Dittrich is a senior researcher for right-wing extremism at CeMAS. He researches the intersection of technology and society, focusing on misanthropic and antidemocratic phenomena in the digital space. Using qualitative, quantitative, and OSINT-guided methodologies, he researches far-right propaganda, networks, and radicalization online.

Since 2019, his research has centered around international far-right terrorism and digital sub-cultures; since 2025, he has also been investigating Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) as an independent phenomenon. At CeMAS, he leads the project “Digital Seismograph: Monitoring Terrorism”. He is increasingly interested in how digital methods and AI-driven approaches can expand methodologies in extremism research. His expertise also includes content moderation, digital subcultures, and the analysis of alternative media ecosystems.

As a recognized expert on far-right terrorism and digital threats, he has spent years advising social media companies on content moderation issues. He has served as an expert witness in the investigative committee of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and in the German Bundestag. From 2018 to 2020, he led the Amadeu Antonio Foundation’s de:hate project.

Miro Dittrich

Quotes

  • You can’t understand the far-right without understanding the internet. You can’t understand the internet without understanding the far-right.

  • For years, digital spaces were not taken seriously by public officials, and enforcement of existing laws remains lacking to this day. This allowed a right-wing terrorist subculture to develop unimpeded and easily accessible to minors.

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  • The potential for violence in the [conspiracy-ideological] scene was always there, but it is becoming more concrete. If these people had been listened to sooner, we would have quickly determined that their demands were not about the COVID measures, but about overthrowing the entire system.

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Publications (Selection)

Düker, J., Dittrich, M., Faßbender, D., Frühwirth, L., Heuer, C., Lamberty, P., Meyer, A., Rathje, J., Rafael, S., Smirnova, J. & Tiedemann, L. (2025). Autoritäre Strategien im Netz: Analyse und Monitoring digitaler Risiken rund um die Bundestagswahl 2025.

Dittrich, M. & Manemann, T. (2024). Im Wandel der Zeit: Datenbank zum Rechtsterrorismus in Deutschland seit dem NSU.

Dittrich, M., Düker, J. & Müller, M. (2023). Where’s the Money at? Rechtsextreme Spendenfinanzierung über Telegram.

Dittrich, M., Rathje, J., Manemann, T. & Müller, F. (2022). Militant Accelerationism - Origins and Developments in Germany.

Dittrich, M., Grandjean, A., Jäger, L., & Rathje, J. (2020). QAnon in Deutschland.

Talks and Appearances (Selection)

Dittrich, M. (2025, 27. 01.). "Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Errichtung der Stiftung Gedenken und Dokumentation NSU-Komplex". [Anhörung als Sachverständiger]. Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin.

Dittrich, M. (2025, 22. 09.). Sachverständiger im 1. Parlamentarische Untersuchungsausschuss zur Aufklärung der NSU-Aktivitäten sowie weiterer militant rechter und rechtsterroristischer Strukturen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. [Anhörung als Sachverständiger]. Landtag Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin.

Dittrich, M. & Manemann, T. (2025, 27. 05.). Gen Z: Eine neue Generation junger Neonazis? - Von neonazistischen Gruppen, jungen Rechtsterroristen und rechtsextremen Gamern. [Vortrag]. re:publica 25, Berlin.

Dittrich, M. & Barbarossa, E. (2024, 19. 06.). Building Qualitative and Quantitative Assessments of Accelerationist Activity, Terrorism and Social Media. [Panel]. Terrorism and Social Media International Conference 24 (TASM), Swansea UK

Dittrich, M. (2019, 13. 09.). Far-Right as Global Community: Connected Through Memes. Conference: "Cultural Formations of the “Alt-Right”. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.