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Modern conflict has been shaped by the use of new and emerging technologies. The use…

The 764 network is an international online sadistic network which operates at the intersection of…

On 31 January, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organisation, launched the…

This Insight examines how extremist aesthetics and narratives inspired by jihadist groups are produced, circulated,…

Social media has proven to be a significant medium fomenting violent extremism, the circulation and…

On 1 February 2026, a meme token called GOYIM appeared on the Solana blockchain, a…
Against the backdrop of discussions on Canada designating 764 as a terrorist group, Tanya Mehra evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of applying this label to such networks and offers practical recommendations for responding to the growing threat.
Today, @RahimNasari critically analyses how Hakkal media projected BLA’s coordinated attacks, narrative dominance, and symbolic gender escalation to shape perception during Operation Herof-2.
In a new piece, María Remiro Soriano and Miguel Gómez Catalán examine how extremist aesthetics and narratives inspired by jihadist groups are produced, circulated, and normalised within digital communities hosted on Discord.
In a critical assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of using AI to screen extremist content in Canada, Arunita Das and Cole Hennig consider how proposed legislation, such as BillC-63, shapes efforts to address extremist material online.
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