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  • Jun102021

    Gab’s Gift to the Far-Right

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    As major social-networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have increased their efforts at moderation to crack down on hateful…

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  • Jun092021

    A Proprietary Solution to GIFCT’s Consolidated List Problem

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    In 2017, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (“GIFCT”) “to formalize the existing…

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  • Jun072021

    The Role of Conspiratorial Narratives in the Violent Radicalisation of Right-Wing Lone Actors

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    Conspiracy theories have been talked about a lot recently as a key ingredient in the radicalisation of right-wing lone actor…

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  • Jun022021

    Tracking Violent Extremism Online and the Challenge of Open-Source Intelligence

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    Understanding online behaviours of extremist groups requires observation, analysis and often dissemination. Academic researchers, government agencies, and civil society groups…

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  • Jun012021

    Choosing Offline: Why India’s ‘Other’ Insurgencies Have not Gone Digital

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    While majority of the debates in and around online extremism and radicalisation in India over the recent past have revolved…

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  • May282021

    The Boogaloo Movement, Coded Communication and the Need for Context-Based Moderation

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    From the political fringes to the front pages, the Boogaloo Boys were thrust into the national spotlight last year. But…

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  • May252021

    Mapping the Turkestan Islamic Party’s Online Propaganda Networks

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    The Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) is considered the most prominent Salafi-jihadist terrorist organisation that originates from China. While it aims…

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  • May242021

    Polarisation and the Pandemic: The Alternative für Deutschland’s Narration of COVID-19 on Twitter

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    The impact of COVID-19 has been felt globally by societies in their entirety; from hospitalisations, deaths, the economic downturn and…

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  • May202021

    Violent Extremism: The Ghost or the Machine?

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    The Australian parliament’s Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security is currently holding an inquiry into extremist movements and radicalism in Australia. It…

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  • May192021

    The Digital Transformations of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State in the Battle Against Online Propaganda

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    In the face of repeated Europol-led crackdowns, and frequent flagging of content by the EU Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU),…

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