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Insights

  • Feb232026

    Undermoderated and Overlooked: Arabic Online Content on the Bondi Beach Attack

    Following the heinous attack on members of the Jewish community celebrating Chanukkah on Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025, large…

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  • Feb202026

    Warning Behaviours for Right-Wing Violent Radicalisation on Online Platforms: Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Findings

    This Insight draws on data from the RadiGaMe project and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology,…

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  • Feb182026

    Group Dynamics in Far-Right Telegram Communities: A (Worthy) Challenge for Radicalisation Research

    This Insight draws on data from the RadiGaMe project and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology,…

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  • Feb162026

    Extremist Content Curation: Moderation Challenges on Pinterest and Means to Move Forward

    On 17 October 2025, the Coimisiún na Meán – Ireland’s agency for developing and regulating a thriving, diverse, creative, safe…

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  • Feb112026

    From Confusion to Extremism: How Deepfakes Facilitate Radicalisation

    On 14 December 2025, two gunmen opened fire on a public Hanukkah celebration attended by 1,000 people on Bondi Beach…

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  • Feb092026

    Telegram Stars: Exploring Micropayment Exploitation, Digital Goods and the Evolving Tactics of Terrorist Financing

    Over the past decade, terrorist organisations have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to adapt to disruption in the digital environment. As…

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  • Feb042026

    Shock and Awe: Geopolitical Disruption and Terrorist Narrative Opportunism Online

    The US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, generated a short but intense disruption in…

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  • Feb022026

    Escape The Void: Responding to Youth-Led Nihilistic Violence

    This Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Addressing Youth Radicalization and Mobilization (AYRM). GIFCT Working Groups bring…

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  • Jan282026

    “Agentic Smurfing”: How AI-Autonomous Micro-Laundering is Outpacing Traditional Terrorist Financing Detection

    The convergence of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency has created a new threat to counter-terrorism financing frameworks. By late 2025, extremist…

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  • Jan262026

    The Moscow Oblast School Stabbing: Digital Rehearsal, Gaming Communities, and Youth Pathways to Violence

    In the morning on 16 December 2025, local police were called to a school in Gorki-2, a 30 minute-drive West…

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