Adam RoussellePropaganda as Financial Infrastructure: How Islamic State and al-Qaeda Media Ecosystems Enable Terrorist Finance
Propaganda ecosystems function as parallel trust infrastructures, enabling extremist organisations to coordinate financial activity outside…
Imtiaz BalochOperation Herof-2: BLA Propaganda, Female Fighters, and Virality on TikTok
On 31 January 2026, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) launched a wave of large-scale coordinated…
Muskan SangwanOperation Ghost Protocol: Infrastructure-Level Evasion in Islamic State Supporter Ecosystems
In a pro–Islamic State Rocket.Chat (TechHaven) channel, a lengthy post appeared on 11 February 2026…
Eleonora Ristuccia“No shadowbans. No algorithmic games”: The Exploitation of UpScrolled by the pro-Islamic State Online Ecosystem
Major social media platforms have intensified content moderation efforts in recent years in response to…
Kye AllenRapid Growth, Emerging Risks: Far Right Violent Extremist Content on UpScrolled
By the end of January 2026, the new social media platform UpScrolled became the most…
Daria AlexeAl-Qaeda’s Cyber Jihad Movement: Plugging into Iran’s Wartime Hacktivist Ecosystem
On 4 March 2026, the Cyber Jihad Movement (CJM) issued a communiqué on its official…
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Today, @rousselle_adam argues that extremist propaganda ecosystems function as trust infrastructures that enable decentralised terrorist financing systems to operate outside formal financial institutions.
In today’s Insight, @ImtiazBaluch examines the BLA’s propaganda strategy, focusing on its portrayal of female suicide attackers on TikTok.
Muskan Sangwan examines how “Operation Ghost Protocol: The 2026 Telegram Hardening Manual” signals developing operational security thinking within Islamic State-supporter ecosystems, and what it means for platforms tackling extremist activity online.
Today, Eleonora Ristuccia and Grazia Ludovica Giardini examine pro-Islamic State content shared by supporters active across #UpScrolled, and offer insight into how such content spreads across platforms.