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  • Sep212022

    The Role of User Agency in the Algorithmic Amplification of Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content

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    There is an increasing focus by governments and certain concerned civil society initiatives that algorithms might be amplifying terrorist and…

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  • Sep142022

    The Tate Storm: Why Banning Andrew Tate from Social Media Will Not Stop the ‘King of Toxic Masculinity’

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    “This War has Just Begun”  In August 2022, UK-based advocacy group Hope Not Hate made waves when they successfully campaigned…

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  • Sep122022

    Analysing Terrorgram Publications: A New Digital Zine

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    Introduction “For every Accelerationist who contributed to this book, there are 10000 others who will download, read and become further…

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  • Sep082022

    Right-Wing Extremists’ Use of the Internet: Emerging Trends in the Empirical Literature

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    Introduction Close attention by journalists and policymakers to the widespread use of the Internet by violent Western (i.e., American, Canadian,…

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  • Sep052022

    Can Serious Games Make a Difference in P/CVE?

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    Video games and gamification have become key tools of extremist actors’ recruitment arsenal and have taken a central role in…

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  • Aug312022

    The Time for e-Democracy is Now: How a Digitally Functional Democracy Could Prevent Extremist Accelerationism

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    Online hate communities view ongoing democratic backsliding as supportive of their accelerationist cause. Tech companies and governments must therefore seize…

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  • Aug252022

    Humour in Jihadi Rhetoric: A Comparative Analysis of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, TTP, and the Taliban

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    Humour in Jihadi magazines plays a significant role in the formation of collective identity and “creates a sense of internal…

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  • Aug232022

    Incel Extremism in India: A View from the Global South

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    Content warning: this Insight contains descriptions of sexual violence.  Introduction Over the years, violent crimes against women have been reported…

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  • Aug192022

    How QAnon is Dealing With The FBI Raid on Trump

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    When the FBI executed their search warrant on Mar-A-Lago on August 8th, QAnon was all over the news. Their first…

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  • Aug172022

    Recommendation Systems and Extremism: What Do We Know?

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    One of the most persistent policy concerns of recent years is the notion that social media platforms’ recommendation systems restrict…

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