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Archive for 2020

  • Nov162020

    Online Terrorist Content: Is it Time for an Independent Regulator?

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    In April 2019, the U.K. Government published its Online Harms white paper. This proposed the creation of a new independent…

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  • Nov132020

    Baghdadi Fan Mail

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    An earlier version of this Insight incorrectly mentioned Denmark in the table below, instead of Austria. This has now been…

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  • Nov112020

    Preempting the Storm: DOJ Moves to Tackle Terrorist and Criminal Use of Cryptocurrencies with Bolder International Approach

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    Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the publication of a Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework penned by the Attorney General’s…

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  • Nov092020

    Extremist Experimentation with Text-Based Instant Messaging Applications

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    The text-based instant messaging platform Telegram has become a chief coordinating forum for several extremist online milieus over the past…

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  • Nov092020

    Migration Moments: Extremist Adoption of Text-Based Instant Messaging Applications

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    This report is also available in French, German and Arabic. Please read on for the Introduction. This report examines the…

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  • Nov062020

    Social Media and the Murder of Samuel Paty

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    Could better monitoring have prevented a terror attack? If we recap the spiral of events that led to the beheading…

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  • Nov052020

    The Hate Matrix of Online Gaming

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    The word that the extreme right use to describe the political radicalisation of newcomers to their worldview is “red pilling”.…

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  • Nov032020

    Linear Relationships Between Islamic State’s Extent of Territorial Control and its Visual Messaging Campaign

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    The importance of online media campaigns to non-state, militant groups is difficult to overstate and a folly to ignore. Online…

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  • Nov022020

    From ShamiWitness to QMap: The Movement of ‘One’ in Online Radicalisation

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    The development of the right-wing conspiracy ecosystem known as QAnon in and around the US elections has been witnessed with…

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  • Oct302020

    GNET Research Digest – October 2020

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    Welcome to the October edition of the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) research digest. Your digest contains a…

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