Extremist Responses to Coronavirus
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…
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…
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…
Youssef TobiRadicalisation and Recruitment Online in Times of COVID-19: The Pandemic as a Propaganda Opportunity
The jihadist doctrine is an ideological corpus built up by extremist theorists to give their destabilising aims a legal and…
Dr. Michael LoadenthalAnti-5G, Infrastructure Sabotage, and COVID-19
On 25 December 2020, as most Christians were celebrating with their families, a 63-year-old, white male, and longtime resident of…
Jakob Guhl‘Crisis and a Loss of Control’ – Digital Extremism in German-Speaking Countries During the COVID-19 Crisis
COVID-19 and the Extremist Hijacking of Anti-Lockdown Protests The COVID-19 pandemic has led to drastic changes to our lives and…
Dr. Patrick WalshRethinking Bioterrorism Post COVID-19
COVID-19 has demonstrated the need for greater strategic and operational integration between public health and national security agencies. It has…
Samaya BoromIncreased Visibility of Far-Right Movements in Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Australia, once touted as a model for a considered and sustainable approach to COVID-19 is now in an interesting position…
Chelsea DaymonOnline Extremist Funding Campaigns: COVID-19 and Beyond
On 5 August 2020 the United States District Court for the District of Columbia filed a criminal complaint for forfeiture…
Mina al-LamiJihadists see COVID-19 as an Opportunity
Jihadists in general have cautiously welcomed the COVID-19 pandemic, seeing it mostly as a problem for their enemies and an…
Angie GadThe Coronavirus Isn’t Immune From the Far-Right
Far-right extremists online leap from one topic to another, trolling, distorting, and amplifying everything from widespread news stories to more…
Peita RichardsCall to Arms: Social Media and Far-Right Narratives of COVID-19
Whilst most of us isolating due to COVID-19 trawl social media for factual information, updated guidelines and messages of hope…
Dr. Alexis HenshawExtremist Responses to COVID-19 in Latin America
Expansion of the COVID-19 pandemic has been leveraged by armed non-state actors in numerous ways. Much of the attention to…
Ashton KingdonThe Gift of the Gab: The Utilisation of COVID-19 for Neo-Nazi Recruitment
Following the confiscation of the domain of the right-wing forum Fascist Forge, neo-Nazi recruiters have been migrating over to the…
Milo ComerfordComparing Jihadist and Far-Right Extremist Narratives on COVID-19
It should come as no surprise that extremist groups are talking about COVID-19. Beyond the immediate public health emergency, this…
Julien BellaicheOnline Antisemitism in Times of COVID-19
On 7 April, Germany’s Commissioner on antisemitism Felix Klein warned of a surge in antisemitism with the spread of the…
Dr. Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens5G and the Far Right: How Extremists Capitalise on Coronavirus Conspiracies
Not since 9/11 has a global event given so much opportunity to conspiracy theorists as the novel coronavirus pandemic. The…
Dr. Eviane Leidig“#CoronaJihad”: How the Far-Right in India is Responding to the Pandemic
A number of far-right extremists have recently taken to social media platforms to spread conspiratorial content about COVID-19. Such conspiracy…
Aymenn Al-TamimiCoronavirus and Official Islamic State Output: An Analysis
‘Islamic State is avoiding Europe/telling fighters to avoid Europe’: headlines and stories along these lines circulated in many media outlets…
Manjana SoldThe Coronavirus as a Means to an End: Extremist Reinterpretations of the Pandemic
Various aspects of society and everyday life have become affected by the clampdown on the Coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions…
Marc-André ArgentinoThe COVID Conspiracy Files
The world is now four months into the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant infodemic. Though efforts have been made to…
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The Coronavirus and Islamic State Supporters Online
As the world focuses on the spread and containment of the coronavirus (COVID-19), statements on the virus are also appearing…