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Extremist Thought in The New Media and Its Impact on Society… F. Abdel Sater et al (157


                        Table 2. Cross-Cutting Programs with Frameworks, Names, And Interaction Standards


                            Episode title     Frame          Nomenclature    No of views   Like   Comment



                        Iranian Agents, What Do   Conspiracy,   Safavid, Safavid Party,
                                                                              78369 k   477    53
                             They Want?      Atonement       Sectarianism



                        The Qur’an, Memorizing   Denial,
                                                          Grudges, Sectarianism   1.421.426   12 k   2.2 k
                           and Agreeing It   Accusation


                                             Incitement,
                            Eye On Yemen                Safavids, Sectarianism, War   211 k      OFF
                                              Threat


                         Who Was Right, Ali or           War, Equating Falsehood
                                             Fabrication                       1.2 M    N/A    OFF
                             Muawiya?                         with Truth

                       The letters “OFF” and “N/A”               content.  We  find  that  the

                       are striking in these numbers.            admiration  meter  on  the
                       The  comment  counter  “OFF”              debate “Who was right, Ali or
                       means it was closed due to its            Muawiya?” is recording N/A,
                       content  being  extremist  and            which means that the value is

                       deviating  from  the  platform's          not  available  for  display,
                       rules.  If  this indicates  anything,     either  because  the  influencer
                       it  means  that  the  level  of           i.e., the managing director for

                       fanaticism and extremism noted            the  network,  decided  to
                       in the comments counter, despite          maintain  his  privacy,  or
                       the low level of viewing and the          because he is unable to provide

                       lack of likes in the interaction          accurate calculations, or refrain
                       counter.                                  according  to  proportions,  and
                         It    indicates     what     the        thus influence his style of thinking

                       community  of  followers  has             and  discourse.  Furthermore,
                       reached  regarding  intellectual          this  explanation  means  that
                       extremism,  such  that  they              the amount of interaction with

                       automatically  reject  others             the  debate,  was  not  in  the
                       without the need to follow the            interest  of  the  goals  intended
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