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Insights

  • Dec182024

    Dark Signals: The Growing Threat of Satellite Internet in Extremist Networks

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    Introduction Many people are aware of the importance of satellite internet access, but few know of its growing importance in…

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  • Dec172024

    Improving the Quality of Violent Extremism Research: Why CVE Researchers Should Play More Games

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    Elizabeth D. Kilmer and Rachel Kowert are members of the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN). The EGRN works together to…

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  • Dec162024

    Telegram Homeschooling: Maintaining A Salafi-Jihadist Oriented Echo Chamber

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    Introduction Journalists have documented instances where parents used homeschooling as an opportunity to create extremist-informed curricula in the United States…

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  • Dec132024

    The Targeting of Ethnic Tajiks by Online Extremists: A Global Problem

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    Introduction Extremist groups increasingly target ethnic Tajiks for recruitment through sophisticated online propaganda campaigns, resulting in some of the world’s…

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  • Dec122024

    Soliciting Terror: ISKP Digital Communications and Financing Tactics Through Voice of Khurasan

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    Introduction It is well known that the Islamic State and its branches effectively use internet-based strategies to disseminate their propaganda and…

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  • Dec112024

    Melodies of Malice: Understanding How AI Fuels the Creation and Spread of Extremist Music

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    Introduction  Research on extremism and counter-terrorism has long underscored the role of music in reinforcing far-right extremist ideologies and serving…

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  • Dec092024

    Digital Warfare in Kashmir: Evolving Tactics of Insurgency in the Region

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    Introduction In the Indian region of Kashmir, the battlefield has shifted. No longer confined to guns and grenades, insurgent groups…

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  • Dec042024

    Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult

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    Introduction As heavy metal music begins to play on a video, a black and white face appears on the screen,…

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  • Dec022024

    “Degenerate” Queers and “Chadsexual” Sapphics: Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric in the Incelosphere

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    Content warning: This insight contains references to homophobic and transphobic slurs and violence against women.   Introduction At present, our understandings…

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  • Nov282024

    CaliphateTok: How Islamic State (IS) Leverages Social Media in Indonesia and the Power of Counter-Narratives

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    Introduction On 31 July 2024, Indonesia’s Counterterrorism Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88) arrested a suspect in East Java accused of…

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