Cameron SumpterCurrent Priorities in Counterterrorism and Prevention: Results of the CENS Online Expert Survey
The Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) in Singapore designed a survey to assess the pandemic’s impact on violent…
Marigny Jane Kirschke-SchwartzHow Will Violent Extremists Use Technology in the Future?
In thinking through how terrorists and violent extremists will continue to evolve in the future, one of the most pressing…
Dr. Teagan WestendorfSafety vs Security: An Asymmetrical Opportunity for RWE in Australia
In 1922 German political theorist Carl Schmitt wrote a seminal essay arguing that sovereignty is defined by the power to…
Dr. Bethan JohnsonThe Race War May No Longer Be Digitised: James Mason’s Designation as a Terrorist Entity in Canada
Almost two decades into the War on Terror era, hundreds of designated terrorist entities operate globally. Far from posing a…
Jordan WildonQAnon is not Dead: New Research into Telegram Shows the Movement is Alive and Well
Following the role that QAnon adherents, and other actors, played in the insurrection on 6 January 2021, large social media…
Maik FielitzWhen Counter-Speech Backfires: The Pitfalls of Strategic Online Interaction
For a long time, hatred and incitement on social media have been treated as a relatively apolitical and purely virtual…
Dr. Victoria McCloudSchrems II and the Future of 3rd Party Security Service Access to Data From the UK
Happy Birthday Schrems II, but hold back the cake. As the EU’s judgment in Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland…
Jessica DavisTechnology and Terrorist Financing
Terrorists are increasingly exploiting technology to finance their activities. However, terrorist adoption of technology is an evolution, not a revolution. As the…
Munira MustaffaRight-Wing Extremism Has Deep Roots in Southeast Asia
The far right or right-wing extremism as an ideologically motivated violent extremism (IMVE) is the least understood security threat in…
Linda SchlegelCompeting, Connecting, Having Fun: How Gamification Could Make Extremist Content More Appealing
Do extremists like to play? A few years ago, this question may have sounded ridiculous. But since the livestreamed attack…
Joseph FrancoCurrent and Emerging Threats by Violent Extremists: Results of the Online CENS Expert Survey
The Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) designed an online expert survey, primarily to assess the pandemic’s impact on…
Manuel Ricardo Torres-Soriano‘Hard Platforms’ vs ‘Friendly Platforms’: Understanding Jihadist Activism on the Internet
Our understanding of how the Internet has fostered terrorist activism is conditioned by an important bias that affects the robustness…
Brune DescampsThe Jihadist of Rambouillet’s Facebook Account
On 23 April 2021, Tunisia-born Jamel Gorchene murdered civil servant Stéphanie Monfermé at the police station in Rambouillet, 45 kilometers…
Aaron TielemansA Survey of Violent Extremist and Terrorist Activities Across the Gaming Environment
The relationship between video games and large-scale violence has been questioned since the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School. In…
Rachid El HoudaiguiTerrorism and New Technology
Terrorism is an indirect strategy from an operational perspective. It is a rational means of action for the weaker party…
Marc-André ArgentinoExtremism Unmasked
Early analysis in 2020 raised two points, the COVID-19 health restrictions would likely have an impact on offline recruitment from…
Damien SaverotCreating a New Space for French Revolutionary Nationalists on the Internet
On the 20 and 27 June 2021, the National Front (FN), the biggest French far-right movement, has a chance to…
Dr. Eviane LeidigFar-Right in the Global South: Adapting and Applying Tech Policies Locally
In the run-up to the 2020 US presidential election, Facebook prepared for the potential spreading of disinformation and election-related violence…
Aaron ZelinAffirmations of Support and Rituals of Jihadi Martyrdoms
When a big named jihadi leader dies, there is usually a cacophony of statements released eulogising the individual that was…
Fatima MustafaStopping Terrorist Violence, One Cellphone Shutdown at a Time
In 2008, terrorists were involved in carrying out deadly attacks in Mumbai which killed 172 people and were spread across…
Sara AnianoThe Darker Side of Social: QAnon Instagram Comments Before the Capitol Riots
In the days and weeks following the US Capitol riots of 6 January 2021, journalists acknowledged the preparations made by…
Dr. Chamila LiyanageQAnon and the Great Awakening: How the Deep Web Rewrites Ideologies and Beliefs
Web 2.0 technologies paved the way for the interactive web, opening a virtual topography easily accessible to countless people worldwide.…
Dr. Alexis HenshawCrime, Cryptocurrency, and El Salvador’s Big Bet on Bitcoin
This week, El Salvador made headlines as the first country to adopt bitcoin as a form of legal tender. Although…
Jordan McSwineyGab’s Gift to the Far-Right
As major social-networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have increased their efforts at moderation to crack down on hateful…
Brett RaffishA Proprietary Solution to GIFCT’s Consolidated List Problem
In 2017, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (“GIFCT”) “to formalize the existing…
Dr. William AllchornThe Role of Conspiratorial Narratives in the Violent Radicalisation of Right-Wing Lone Actors
Conspiracy theories have been talked about a lot recently as a key ingredient in the radicalisation of right-wing lone actor…
Lyria Bennett MosesTracking Violent Extremism Online and the Challenge of Open-Source Intelligence
Understanding online behaviours of extremist groups requires observation, analysis and often dissemination. Academic researchers, government agencies, and civil society groups…
Kabir TanejaChoosing Offline: Why India’s ‘Other’ Insurgencies Have not Gone Digital
While majority of the debates in and around online extremism and radicalisation in India over the recent past have revolved…
StoryfulThe Boogaloo Movement, Coded Communication and the Need for Context-Based Moderation
From the political fringes to the front pages, the Boogaloo Boys were thrust into the national spotlight last year. But…
Miron LakomyMapping the Turkestan Islamic Party’s Online Propaganda Networks
The Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) is considered the most prominent Salafi-jihadist terrorist organisation that originates from China. While it aims…
Chamin HerathPolarisation and the Pandemic: The Alternative für Deutschland’s Narration of COVID-19 on Twitter
The impact of COVID-19 has been felt globally by societies in their entirety; from hospitalisations, deaths, the economic downturn and…
Lydia KhalilViolent Extremism: The Ghost or the Machine?
The Australian parliament’s Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security is currently holding an inquiry into extremist movements and radicalism in Australia. It…
Héni NsaibiaThe Digital Transformations of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State in the Battle Against Online Propaganda
In the face of repeated Europol-led crackdowns, and frequent flagging of content by the EU Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU),…
Brett RaffishDefining the Delta Between Hashed Terrorist Content and All Terrorist Content
Terrorists and violent extremists (“VE”) have “exploit digital platforms” to share intelligence, recruit, and disseminate ideology. The Global Internet Forum…
Dr. Ryan ScrivensExamining Online Indicators of Extremism in Violent Right-Wing Extremist Forums
Although many law enforcement and intelligence agencies are concerned about online communities known to facilitate violent right-wing extremism, little is…
J.M. BergerThe Out-Group in the In-Group
Extremists hate people who do not share their group identity. If scholars of terrorism and extremism can agree on little…
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