Heath N. LandressBetween Meme Culture and Warning Behaviour: Interpreting Nihilistic Violence Aesthetics in Online Extremist-Adjacent Spaces
Trust-and-safety teams, school-safety staff, and prevention practitioners are increasingly asked to make sense of online…
Michael VargaThe Counterterrorism Blind Spot: AI as a Radicalisation Environment
Counterterrorism officials have learned to look for extremists across the numerous online channels they operate.…
Adam RoussellePre-Transactional Infrastructure and Insurgent Resilience: The Case of Islamic State Mozambique
By April 2021, Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP, also known as al-Shabaab or Ansar al-Sunnah)…
Ruben CeladaOnline Jihadist Responses to the Iran War: Divergence, Propaganda, and Positioning
Since the launch of Israeli and United States’ military operations against Iran on 28 February…
Munira MustaffaEmerging Extremism Frameworks: Reexamining the 2023 Siam Paragon Attack in Context
On 3 October 2023, a fourteen-year-old teenager walked into the Siam Paragon shopping mall in…
Zunaira KhanThe Invisible Pipeline: Human Trafficking, Extremism, and the Case for AI-Driven Detection in Pakistan’s Af-Pak Corridor
In Pakistan’s Af-Pak Corridor, human trafficking has become increasingly embedded within the operational and financial…
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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.
Today, Ruben Celada examines how online jihadist ecosystems linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have reacted to Israeli and United States military operations against Iran, and what this reflects about the organisations themselves.
In a retrospective analysis of the Siam Paragon shooting, @MuniraMustaffa situates the attack within a wave of emerging regional incidents involving underage perpetrators, drawing out lessons for more appropriate responses and countermeasures.