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Despite its local context, the conflict in Ukraine has attracted large numbers of foreign volunteers with estimates from 2014-2019 of…
Gina ValeThe Yazidi Genocide: We Are Listening
On 3 August 2014, Islamic State swept across the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq in a bid to expand its…
Joana CookIncels
In recent years there has been a growing concern from people who have identified as ‘incel’ (involuntarily celibate) due to…
Dr. William AllchornTechnology and the Swarm: A Dialogic Turn in Online Far-Right Activism
Earlier this week, the outgoing director general of the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, Sir Andrew Parker, suggested that technology was…
Inna RudolfCommunication strategy by the Iraq’s religious authorities
Communication strategy by the Iraq’s religious authorities vis-à-vis countering violent extremism and the treatment of Islamic State combatants and their…
Charlie WinterOnline extremism: Research trends and gaps in the knowledge
The Internet has long been inextricably linked with extremism, violent and otherwise. When it was still in its infancy, extremists…
Joana CookWomen of the Islamic State online
In spring 2014 when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a ‘caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria it instigated the largest mobilization of…
Haid HaidTrading weapons on social media applications
People in rebel-held northwest Syria have been trading hundreds of weapons in publicly accessible black markets. The advertised weapons include…
Florence KeenFrom Iron March to Fascist Forge
How the Global Far-Right Makes Use of Social Networking Founded in 2011 by the Russian nationalist known as Alexander Slavros…
Blyth CrawfordChan Culture and Violent Extremism
Past, Present, and Future(?) “Well lads, it’s time to stop shitposting and time to make a real life effort post.”…
Marie SchröterAI for Content Moderation – what can we expect?
Algorithms will save the Internet. Machine learning or deep learning applications will identify malicious content on Social Media and deal…
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