75 © Te Author(s) 2018 S. Krüger et al. (eds.), Fomenting Political Violence, Studies in the Psychosocial, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97505-4_5 Violence and the Virtual: Right-wing, Anti-asylum Facebook Pages and the Fomenting of Political Violence Steffen Krüger Abstract Tis article sheds light on the role of social media in the instigation of acts of violence. It identifes and interprets the major forms of interaction emerging from the interplay between page owners and users on German right-wing, anti-asylum Facebook pages, bringing to the fore these pages’ interactional dynamic. Mainly two forms of interaction are identifed. Firstly, by condensing news reports about crimes committed by foreigners into a coherent vision of reality, users are to be awakened to this reality. Secondly, by incessantly pointing to the intolerableness of this reality, the users’ continued inactivity is turned into a moral issue that goes to the core of their identities. Introduction Numbers for the frst half of 2016 presented by the German Ministry of the Interior show that politically motivated criminal acts against foreign- ers, refugees, and asylum seekers have more than doubled in comparison S. Krüger (*) Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway e-mail: stefen.krueger@media.uio.no