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Archive for January, 2021

  • Jan192021

    Anti-5G, Infrastructure Sabotage, and COVID-19

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    On 25 December 2020, as most Christians were celebrating with their families, a 63-year-old, white male, and longtime resident of…

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  • Jan192021

    Big Data and Counter-Terrorism: Uses and Boundaries

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    This blog post is a concept note for a T.M.C Asser Institute/ICCT workshop on uses of big data in the…

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  • Jan182021

    Redpill the “Parler Refugees”: White Supremacist Strategies for Radicalising Trump Supporters on Telegram

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    On 6 January, insurrectionists stormed the US capitol and disrupted the confirmation of election results in the House and Senate;…

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  • Jan182021

    Beyond the ‘LULZ’: Memifying Murder as ‘Meaningful’ Gamification in Far-Right Content

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    Research on the relationship between video games and extremist propaganda has been increasing in the last few years in both…

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  • Jan152021

    Attack Dates as Terrorist Messaging

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    In the aftermath of the violent political events of 6 January 2021 at the US Capitol, a cascade of governmental…

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  • Jan152021

    Why Deplatforming the Extreme Right is a Lot More Challenging than Deplatforming IS

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    In the wake of the mob violence at the US Capitol last week, Amarnath Amarasingam published a 17-part Twitter thread…

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  • Jan132021

    Ashli Babbitt: A Far-Right Martyr of the Insurrection

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    On 6 January, during the insurrection on Capitol Hill, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot in the neck by Capitol police…

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  • Jan122021

    Intersection of Social Media, Foreign Policy and Extreme Narratives: An Example from India

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    In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world and states struggled to contain the economic fallout of shutting…

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  • Jan112021

    Researching Extremist Content on Social Media Platforms: Data Protection and Research Ethics Challenges and Opportunities

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    This report is also available in French, German and Arabic. Please read on for the Introduction. The digital space played…

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  • Jan112021

    From #ArsonEmergency to #DanLiedPeopleDied: How Extremist Messaging Co-Opts Emergency Events on the Australian Twittersphere

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    Australia experienced two major emergency events in 2020, starting off with the summer bushfires, followed shortly after by the coronavirus…

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