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  • Nov182021

    Understanding Accelerationist Narratives: The Boogaloo

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    “You wanna create f***ing some instability while the Virginia situation is happening, make other things happen. Derail some rail lines…

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  • Nov162021

    Video Games, Extremism and Terrorism: A Literature Survey

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    Video games are extremely popular, with a market worth over $175 billion per year and at least 3 billion players…

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  • Nov122021

    Remaining and Expanding or Surviving and Adapting? Extremist Platform Migration and Adaptation Strategies

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    Despite the often-decentralised nature of extremists and violent extremists in online spaces, there is clear evidence that they attempt to…

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  • Nov102021

    The Rise of the Far-Right Web

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    In October 2021 the former President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced the establishment of a new social media…

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  • Nov042021

    The Robots Will Not Save Us: The Limits of Machine Learning for Counterterrorism

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    At the dawn of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld argued it would trigger a…

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  • Nov022021

    Applying Systematic Content Moderation for Extremist Deterrence

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    Platforms that are committed to making their online communities inhospitable to extremism require pragmatic, layered approaches to policy, detection, moderation,…

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  • Oct282021

    Music and Online Far-Right Extremism

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    The idea that music leads to extreme behaviour has a long history, ranging from Plato to black metal. Blues artists…

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  • Oct262021

    Thinking About the Crime-Terror Nexus in the COVID-19 era

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    Research indicates that the end of the Cold War gave rise to the crime-terror nexus as states ended their support…

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  • Oct222021

    A Call for Orientation and Cultural Competency in Online Extremist Milieus within Prevention Efforts

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    The field of behavioural threat assessment and management (BTAM) has grown significantly in recent years with increasing numbers of law…

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  • Oct202021

    The Persistence of QAnon on Mainstream Social Media

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    QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory and cultic social movement that needs little introduction. Just some of the harms it…

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