David WellsMapping Terrorist AI Use: Identifying Factors Behind a Relatively Slow Adoption Rate
Over the past three years, regional, national, and international governments have repeatedly raised concerns that the misuse of Generative AI…
Abdul BasitEvolution, Expansion and Diversification: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Umar Media
Since 2021, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has reformed its organisational structure every year – imitating the Taliban’s insurgency model – to…
Stephen ReimerState of the Art: Unpacking the FATF’s Terrorist Financing Threat Assessment
On 8 July 2025, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – the global standard setter for countering the financing of…
Linda SchlegelCan Gaming Support Disengagement? Exploring Opportunities and Challenges for Innovative Disengagement Approaches
The last few years have seen an increase in research efforts detailing how extremist actors are seeking to exploit video…
Ashreet AcharyaBeyond Hawala: Emerging Online Financing Trends Among South Asian Violent Extremist Groups in 2025
Throughout 2025, we have witnessed the rapid evolution of fundraising tactics used by violent extremist groups across South Asia. Despite…
Abraham Ename MinkoBuilding Digital Trust: Youth-Led Tech Solutions to Prevent Extremism in the Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa – a region encompassing Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, and Djibouti – has long been at the epicentre…
Jose AkmalPixelated Profits: Terrorist Financing Through In-Game Economies in Indonesia
Indonesia’s massive gaming market, led by Mobile Legends, Free Fire, and PUBG Mobile, generates billions and functions as a digital…
Cara RauVoices of Extremism: The Rise of Ala Nahjen Qaweem Foundation
On 6 May 2025, a new Islamic State-supportive unofficial media outlet emerged on Element. According to its website, Element is…
Kye AllenBuilding Community, Spreading Hate: Extremism, Hate, and Arma 3
Following the 2019 Christchurch massacre, 4chan users allegedly showcased their efforts to replicate and roleplay the terrorist attack in Arma…
Anonymous AuthorSpreading Fire: Arson, Social Media, and the Violent Extreme-Right in Ireland
In early June 2025, anti-migrant violence exploded in Northern Ireland following the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by…
Tarun AgarwalDigital Aftershocks: Deepfakes in the Wake of the Pahalgam Attack in Kashmir
The terrorist attack in Pahalgam, India, on 22 April 2025 marked a tragic moment in the country’s history. The attack…
Michaela RanaAntisemitism and Terrorist Manifestos: “Where did you get your current beliefs? Mostly from the internet.”
This Insight contributes to GNET’s PhD Researcher Series, highlighting emerging academic voices in the field of countering violent extremism and…
Joseph StabileSovereign Solutions: Unpacking the Criminal History and Digital Footprint of an Extremist Seller
This Insight contributes to GNET’s PhD Researcher Series, highlighting emerging academic voices in the field of countering violent extremism and…
Ricardo Cabral PenteadoIntroducing BR-ECHO: A Tool to Fight Online Extremism in Brazilian Portuguese
This Insight contributes to GNET’s PhD Researcher Series, highlighting emerging academic voices in the field of countering violent extremism and…
Alessandro Bolpagni“Remaining and Expanding:” IS Munasirin and the pro-Islamic State Ecosystem on SimpleX Chat
Ever since the arrest of Telegram founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Pavel Durov, IS munasirin and its supporters have…
Imtiaz BalochThe Shadow War in Balochistan: ISKP Weaponises Digital Land to Gain Influence
On 25 May, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), through its so-called official media outlet, Al-Azaim Media Foundation, released a…
Sonia SarkarTransnational White Supremacy: Digital Violent Extremism from West to East
In February, an 18-year-old Singaporean, Nick Lee Xing Qiu, was detained for planning to attack Malays and Muslims after being…
Nina KurtWeaponised Skies: The Expansion of Terrorist Drone Use Across Africa
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, have been on the rise among violent extremist and terrorist actors globally.…
Urszula MrozowskaGuerrillas Online: Recruitment, Propaganda, and Control by Colombia’s FARC-EP Dissidents and ELN
In 2016, Colombia signed a historic peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP), a…
Devika Shanker-GrandpierrePost-Pahalgam Propaganda: Mapping Online Extremist Reactions to the April 2025 Kashmir Attack
On 22 April 2025, a terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir, killed 26 people. The four attackers questioned each…
Jessica Davis‘A New Society’: Behind Canadian Armed Forces Members’ Plot to Form a Militia and Seize Land
On 8 July 2025, three men in Quebec, Canada, were arrested and charged with facilitating terrorist activity, and a fourth…
Adam RousselleHezbollah’s Latin American Networks: Stablecoins, Smuggling, and Sanctions Evasion
In early 2024, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) sanctioned a Syria-based hawala operator, Tawfiq Muhammad Said…
Dr. Gerard GillMeaning Through Its Opposite: Significance Quest Theory and Nihilistic Violent Extremism
This Insight examines groups under The Com umbrella (a catch-all name for 764 and related groups such as CVLT and…
Beatriz BuarqueThe Weaponisation of AI: Visual storytelling of the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory Amid the Southport Riots
Artificial intelligence played a key role in the riots that followed the stabbing attack in Southport, UK, which claimed the…
Luke BaumgartnerAI at the Centre: Violent Extremist Exploitation in Pirkkala
On 20 May 2025, a 16-year-old boy stabbed three of his female classmates at the Vähäjärvi school in Pirkkala, Finland.…
Alessandro BolpagniAI-powered Translation: How AI Tools Could Shape a New Frontier of IS Propaganda Dissemination
Terrorists have always adopted and employed emerging technologies to organise acts of terror, radicalise, and produce propaganda to mobilise recruits.…
John Sunday OjoTechno-Caliphate or Terror from the Sky? ISWAP and Drone-Enabled Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Region
Insurgents and terrorists have been exploiting drones for intelligence gathering, propaganda, and attacks on civilian and military targets for years.…
GagandeepPlaying with Hate: How Far-Right Extremists Use Minecraft to Gamify Radicalisation
This Insight will analyse how far-right extremist networks have turned Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular online games, into…
Gazbiah SansMisogyny and Violent Extremism: Can Big Tech Fix the Glitch?
Content Warning: This Insight contains mentions of rape and violence against women. Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) is preventable, yet…
Brenda MwaleAI and Counter-Terrorism in Africa: Assessing the Role of the African Union’s Continental AI Strategy
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally transforming societies by driving innovation in various sectors, including the security sector. However, its dual-use…
Matilde GambaAbove the Battlefield: The Threat of UAVs in the Hands of VNAs
In 21st-century warfare, the loudest weapon may not be a missile, but rather the soft hum of a drone overhead.…
Manfredi PozzoliMurder of the Universe? Efilist Terrorism in Palm Springs
On the morning of 17 May 2025, a 25-year-old suspect carried out a suicide attack using a vehicle-borne improvised explosive…
Rueben DassNascent Adoption: Emerging Tech Trends by Terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan
In the Afghanistan-Pakistan region’s evolving threat landscape, terrorist groups have been slow in adopting technologies such as drones and generative…
GNET TeamThe Fifth Annual GNET Conference: A Summary of Key Takeaways
On Wednesday, 28 May, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) hosted its Fifth Annual Conference at King’s College…
Anda SoleaPrompted to Harm: Analysing the Pirkkala School Stabbing and Its Digital Manifesto
On 20 May 2025, a stabbing incident occurred at a school in the town of Pirkkala, southern Finland, in which…
Jose AkmalMapping the Money Trail: The Evolution of Terrorist Financing Networks in Indonesia
Introduction Terrorist exploitation of digital financing is a technological, regulatory, and enforcement problem everywhere extremists operate – all over the…
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