Media reporting on far right extremism often focuses on the attacker's individual grievances and glosses over their ideological motivations and group affiliations.
This framing makes far right violence seem sporadic, personal, and isolated, which makes it easier to view as non-terroristic.
In a comparison of how media describes FR and Islamist extremists, my co-authors and I found the that use of descriptors of mental illness were independent of perpetrator identity.
Descriptors of terrorism, however, were mainly applied to Islamist attackers.
Islamists also got much more coverage.
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