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On 20 April 2026, a Danish‑French man named Jérémy Meilhac (J.M.) was convicted in a…

Trust-and-safety teams, school-safety staff, and prevention practitioners are increasingly asked to make sense of online…

Counterterrorism officials have learned to look for extremists across the numerous online channels they operate.…

By April 2021, Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP, also known as al-Shabaab or Ansar al-Sunnah)…

Since the launch of Israeli and United States’ military operations against Iran on 28 February…

On 3 October 2023, a fourteen-year-old teenager walked into the Siam Paragon shopping mall in…
Don't miss your chance to register for our upcoming webinar on extremist exploitation of offline violence for online impact. See the post below for more information ⤵️
🗓️ Join GNET at our upcoming webinar: ‘Conflict and Content: How Terrorists and Violent Extremists Exploit Offline Violence for Online Impact’ on 15 July at 15:00 BST/10:00 EDT.
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Dr. Heath Landress' new Insight addresses the ambiguity of violent nihilistic aesthetics, exploring how platforms and practitioners can distinguish between performative and genuinely threatening behaviours to better adapt content moderation strategies.
In today's Insight, Michael Varga analyses five structural mechanisms through which general-purpose conversational AI systems, operating exactly as their developers intended, may function as radicalisation environments.
Adam Rousselle's new analysis examines how Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) has regenerated despite sustained military pressure, arguing that online recognition, trust-node formation, and distributed financial adaptation facilitate this process.
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