Editor's Update: The Network Contagion Research Institute is the same entity that released a report earlier in 2025 about how the phrase "Christ is King" was being weaponized by certain pseudo-Christian figures. It is affiliated with the leftwing ADL, which has attempted to censor conservatives for decades by labeling everything under the sun as antisemitic, and has received funding from the Soros Open Foundation. While the institute's research can still be valid, it should be understood through the lens of that bias.
This updated context is necessary as Fuentes has dismissed the data as fake news due to the NCRI's political leanings.
DataRepublican responded to Fuentes dismissal with more data to defend NCRI's integrity and explain the Soros grant it received "a long time ago."]
Original story:
It's something many have long suspected, but it's crazy to see it backed up by real data.
Our friend Data Republican shared some interesting data from a new report published by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI).
The summary claim from the report says this:
Nick Fuentes's surge into national visibility did not originate from a broad or sudden shift in American political sentiment. It emerged from a pattern of online amplification that was unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign in origin.
Here are some of the more interesting bits from this insane report:
First, they looked at mean number of retweets per 1 million followers and compared them for major influencers:
This is an insane anomaly. From the report:
The analysis of early retweet patterns across major online political influencers reveals a singular and extreme anomaly in Nick Fuentes's account: within the first 30 minutes of posting, Fuentes consistently amasses far more retweets than any comparable figure, including Elon Musk, despite having a fraction (<1%) of the follower count. When normalized for audience size, the disparity becomes even more stark: Fuentes's early velocity is orders of magnitude higher than that of other prominent voices on both the left and right. This disproportionate surge cannot plausibly be explained by organic enthusiasm alone; the speed, volume, and consistency of the engagement strongly suggest algorithmic manipulation through coordinated, rapid-fire retweeting designed to catapult his posts into wider visibility.
The majority of those who retweet Fuentes early do so repeatedly, every time he posts something:
...and 92% of those accounts are anonymous, dedicated "groyper" accounts:
But that's not all. about half of that activity comes from foreign accounts based in countries like India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
The report also showed how Fuentes often personally coordinates this activity, giving instructions to repost or attack a target. They even talked with former Fuentes insiders who confirmed this.
Based on some of this evidence, it seems like much of Fuentes's "rise" has been artificially manufactured.
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