The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) is the academic research arm of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) and aims to better understand the ways in which terrorists use technology.
The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) is the academic research arm of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) and aims to better understand the ways in which terrorists use technology.
Insights
Jan202020
Incels
In recent years there has been a growing concern from people who have identified as…
Joana Cook
Jan172020
Technology and the Swarm: A Dialogic Turn in Online Far-Right Activism
Earlier this week, the outgoing director general of the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, Sir Andrew…
Dr. William Allchorn
Dec312019
Communication strategy by the Iraq’s religious authorities
Communication strategy by the Iraq’s religious authorities vis-à-vis countering violent extremism and the treatment of…
Inna Rudolf
Dec312019
Online extremism: Research trends and gaps in the knowledge
The Internet has long been inextricably linked with extremism, violent and otherwise. When it was…
Charlie Winter
Dec312019
Women of the Islamic State online
In spring 2014 when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a ‘caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria it…
Joana Cook
Dec312019
Trading weapons on social media applications
People in rebel-held northwest Syria have been trading hundreds of weapons in publicly accessible black…
Haid Haid
Dec312019
From Iron March to Fascist Forge
How the Global Far-Right Makes Use of Social Networking Founded in 2011 by the Russian…
Florence Keen
Dec312019
Chan Culture and Violent Extremism
Past, Present, and Future(?) “Well lads, it’s time to stop shitposting and time to make…
Blyth Crawford
Dec312019
AI for Content Moderation – what can we expect?
Algorithms will save the Internet. Machine learning or deep learning applications will identify malicious content…
Dr. William Allchorn
Inna Rudolf
Charlie Winter
Joana Cook
Haid Haid
Florence Keen
Blyth Crawford
Marie Schröter