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  • Aug192020

    Militant Group Attacks Types and Shifts in Media Campaigns

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    Interviews with imprisoned and former members of Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda document that such group’s online media campaigns provide…

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  • Aug172020

    Terrorist e-Autobiographies: An Underexamined Form of Online Propaganda?

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    Whilst terrorists have long been noted as proficient writers, their autobiographical accounts have traditionally been viewed sceptically as after-the-fact justifications…

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  • Aug142020

    Catfishing to Counter Extremism: Lessons from an Indonesian Experiment

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    From anxious captive audiences to fresh subversive narratives, COVID-19 has been a boon for those who peddle their extremism in…

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  • Aug132020

    Moving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online

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    Over the past decade and a half, counter-narratives – defined as ‘messages that…, deconstruct or delegitimise extremist narratives’ (Tuck and…

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  • Aug122020

    An Interview on Islamic State’s Media Work in 2014 – Five Questions with Medyan Dairieh Part 1

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    It seemed unlikely to get in touch with Medyan Dairieh, a man who has stopped giving interviews. To add to…

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  • Aug112020

    Italy and the Vatican in Islamic State Propaganda

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    In recent weeks, Islamic State (IS) targeted Italy in its official online propaganda. The jihadist organisation explicitly mentioned the country…

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  • Aug102020

    State-Sponsored Right-Wing Extremism: A Hybridity of Threat to Liberal Democracy

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    The weaponisation of ideas is hardly new. But the almost limitless potential of cyberspace to spread ideas of hate remakes…

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  • Aug072020

    The Role of the Internet in Facilitating Violent Extremism: Insights from Former Right-Wing Extremists

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    In the past five years, it has become increasingly common for practitioners and policymakers in the Western world to draw…

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  • Aug052020

    Facebook’s Disruption of the Boogaloo Network

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    On 30 June 2020, Facebook announced it was designating “a violent US-based anti-government network as a dangerous organization” and subsequently…

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  • Aug032020

    The Digital Fight Against Islamic State and Al-Qaeda

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    The Digital Caliphate Despite the substantial military defeats suffered by Islamic State (IS), as well as its loss of the…

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