Liram Koblentz-StenzlerFrom Generative AI to Crypto Exchanges: The Infrastructure Behind the GOYIM Token
On 1 February 2026, a meme token called GOYIM appeared on the Solana blockchain, a public digital network where cryptocurrencies…
Urszula MrozowskaSpain’s New Neo-Nazi Networks: ‘Remigration’ and Radicalisation Online
In Spain, hostility toward immigrants is one of the most prevalent forms of online hate, and it disproportionately targets people…
Orisa ShintaSilent Recruitment: Extremist Child Targeting on Messaging Platforms in Indonesia
In November 2025, Indonesia’s National Police Detachment 88 (Densus 88 AT Polri), together with the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT), reported…
Silvano Rizieri LuciniAn ‘Ode to Violence’: Extremist Exploitation of Viggle AI
New and unique online platforms are seemingly constantly cropping up, often ripe for extremist exploitation even if moderation policies are…
Nurrisha IsmailExtremist Nasheeds: Emerging Subcultures and the Cultivation of Radical Online Communities in Southeast Asia
This Insight relies on open-source intelligence to examine how nasheeds – Islamic hymns – are exploited by violent extremist actors,…
Margareta WetchyUndermoderated and Overlooked: Arabic Online Content on the Bondi Beach Attack
Following the heinous attack on members of the Jewish community celebrating Chanukkah on Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025, large…
Dr. Robert PelzerWarning Behaviours for Right-Wing Violent Radicalisation on Online Platforms: Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Findings
This Insight draws on data from the RadiGaMe project and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology,…
Ulrike SchwertbergerGroup Dynamics in Far-Right Telegram Communities: A (Worthy) Challenge for Radicalisation Research
This Insight draws on data from the RadiGaMe project and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology,…
Alessandro BolpagniExtremist Content Curation: Moderation Challenges on Pinterest and Means to Move Forward
On 17 October 2025, the Coimisiún na Meán – Ireland’s agency for developing and regulating a thriving, diverse, creative, safe…
Georgia LalaFrom Confusion to Extremism: How Deepfakes Facilitate Radicalisation
On 14 December 2025, two gunmen opened fire on a public Hanukkah celebration attended by 1,000 people on Bondi Beach…
Laurence BindnerTelegram Stars: Exploring Micropayment Exploitation, Digital Goods and the Evolving Tactics of Terrorist Financing
Over the past decade, terrorist organisations have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to adapt to disruption in the digital environment. As…
Sam DavidShock and Awe: Geopolitical Disruption and Terrorist Narrative Opportunism Online
The US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, generated a short but intense disruption in…
Pierre SivignonEscape The Void: Responding to Youth-Led Nihilistic Violence
This Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Addressing Youth Radicalization and Mobilization (AYRM). GIFCT Working Groups bring…
Daria Alexe“Agentic Smurfing”: How AI-Autonomous Micro-Laundering is Outpacing Traditional Terrorist Financing Detection
The convergence of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency has created a new threat to counter-terrorism financing frameworks. By late 2025, extremist…
Harrison PatesThe Moscow Oblast School Stabbing: Digital Rehearsal, Gaming Communities, and Youth Pathways to Violence
In the morning on 16 December 2025, local police were called to a school in Gorki-2, a 30 minute-drive West…
Imtiaz BalochFrom Defence to Offence: How Anti-Drone Technologies Are Empowering Militants in a New Era of Coordinated Drone Warfare
In 2025, Pakistani security forces witnessed at least 405 quadcopter attacks by Islamists Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) and Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen (IMP) in parts…
Sergey Elkind3D-Printed Warfare: A New Phase in Jihadist “Do-It-Yourself” Innovation Targeting the West?
This Insight analyses potential security threats associated with the use of 3D-printing technologies for the production of firearms and unmanned…
Nodirbek SolievThe Moscow Oblast School Stabbing: Understanding Hybrid Radicalisation and Transnational Online Subcultures
The fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old Tajik immigrant schoolboy in the Odintsovo district of Moscow Oblast on 16 December 2025…
Nina KurtTesting Resilience: Can the Proposed EU Drone Wall Defend Against Extremist Actors?
The European Union is developing a “Drone Wall”, officially named the European Drone Defence Initiative, consisting of a network of…
Sonja BelkinUnderstanding Cyberhacktivist Radicalisation: A Socio-Psychological Approach
Note: The following Insight draws on research conducted by Sonja Belkin and Kristy Sakano under the DoD–funded UC2 Cybercrime Collaboration…
Kevin Marc BlasiakThe Exploration of Dialogue-Based AI Interventions in P/CVE: Opportunities, Limits, and Lessons
Across the Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) field, practitioners know that radicalisation processes increasingly unfold online, without face-to-face interactions.…
Muskan SangwanModern Warfare: The Islamic State’s Emerging Drone Instruction Ecosystem
Over the past decade, Islamic State (IS) has repeatedly adjusted the way it teaches technical skills, responding both to changes…
Chevy AthaThe Jakarta Bombing: Youth Digital Radicalisation and the Urgent Need for Adaptive PCVE Responses
This Insight analyses the digital influences, memetic behaviours, and visual-symbolic cues that underpinned the explosion that occurred on 7 November…
Valdemar BalleThe Nordic Front of ‘764’: Trends, Drivers, and Countering Youth Exploitation and Radicalisation
This Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Addressing Youth Radicalization and Mobilization. GIFCT Working Groups bring…
Alexander YenCutting a Hydra’s Head: Infrastructure-Level Content Moderation and the Case of Kiwi Farms
On 18 November 2025, the popular Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection provider Cloudflare suffered…
Munira MustaffaCosplaying Columbine: How Memetic Violence Transformed Southeast Asia’s Extremist Threat
The 7 November 2025 attack at Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri 72 (SMAN 72) in North Jakarta represents a troubling manifestation…
Joe OndrakParticipatory Memetic Violence: Legend, Ostension, and Ideologically Diffuse Violence
Folk studies are not a source of analysis often used in the P/CVE space. However, the field is littered with…
Fabio DanieleMonetising Misogyny: Engagement Farming and the Tactics Behind Incendiary Online Content
This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series, aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism…
Osama AhmadDigital Weaponisation: Taliban Propaganda and Narrative Warfare on X
The Pakistani state and Afghan Taliban forces recently clashed along the Durand Line—one of the world’s most volatile borders. This…
Cecilia PolizziThe Feed That Shapes Us: Extremism and Adolescence in the Age of Algorithms
This Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Addressing Youth Radicalization and Mobilization (AYRM). GIFCT Working Groups…
Riza KumarThe Weaponisation of Femininity: Gendered Realities in ISIS’s Digital Caliphate
This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series, aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism…
Kye AllenYou Talkin’ to Me? Algorithmic Mirrors and Chatbot Radicalisation
In his latest assessment to Parliament, Jonathan Hall KC, the UK Government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warns of the…
Kye AllenCould Chatbots Seduce Us into Extremism? Radicalisation Risks in an Age of AI Companions
In July, the UK Government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Jonathan Hall KC, relayed his annual assessment to Parliament. Hall’s…
Meili CriezisHave Any Change to Spare? How the Islamic State Leverages Instagram for Fundraising
Following the 2019 Battle of Baghouz, which marked the Islamic State’s territorial collapse, IS-affiliated individuals flooded into camps run by…
Christopher DavidFractures on the (Storm-)Front: Contesting the Role of Women in White Supremacy
This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series, aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism Against…
Mauro LubranoBack to Basics: 325 and the Renewed Critique of Technological Civilisation
This Insight examines the return of 325, an insurrectionary anarchist zine, and the renewed prominence of anti-technology positions in its…
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