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This Insight is published to coincide with Global Media and Information Literacy Week to highlight…

Terrorist and Violent Extremist (TVE) actors are known as early adopters of emerging technologies. There…

Over the last several years, extremist and terrorist groups have begun using cryptocurrencies in a…

Digital sex crimes such as South Korea’s molka (hidden camera) phenomenon and the Nth Room…

The digital bulletin, Light of Darkness, was originally conceived as a supplementary component to Voice…

On 10 September 2025, in Orem, Utah, right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and…
Despite warnings about the risk of malicious use of AI, policy frameworks lag behind the rapid adaptation of technology by TVEs.
Kevin Marc Blasiak & Daniel Levenson examine the tension between emerging technologies, TVEs’ capacity to innovate, and policy.
📆 Join us for our Engelsberg Annual Lecture in Applied History, coming up later this month! This year, we are honoured to host speakers @KoriSchake & Prof Francis Gavin
🕡 30 Oct, 18:30–20:00 GMT
📍 Strand Campus
Registration is now open 👇
"In these ways, digital technologies do not merely enable abuse. Instead, they constitute the infrastructure of everyday extremism" - a great piece on the overlap between extremism, tech, and gender
Digital infrastructures enable everyday gender-based extremism, argues @DrSeyounPark. By spotlighting South Korea’s molka and Nth Room, Dr Park analyses how platforms and design features co-produce environments that monetise & normalise misogynistic harm.
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