Да продадеш душата си на дявола
To Sell Your Soul to the Devil

Summary/Abstract: The article uses the technology of web-scraping and social network analysisto track the use of keywords from the language of primarily East Europeananti-liberalism – tolerast, liberast, and sorosoid. A corpus of about 500 webpages containing at least one of the key words serves as empirical material for the analysis. The three keywords extracted from the net a large corpus of anti-liberal texts including a mixture of political and geopolitical topics intertwined with xenophobic, homophobic and plainly vulgar jargon. Word frequency and correlation analysis of the whole corpus and the construction of a bi-partite networkwith webpages and words revealed several thematic fields. The main sources of anti-liberal rhetoric using hate speech do not seem to quote or directly borrow from each other. Most of them maintain a multitopic profile and their relation to kindred spirit web pages can only be discovered through web search.

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