Galen EnglundUnderstanding the Game: Bridging Research Gaps at the Nexus of Gaming and Extremism
Preventing and countering violent extremism practitioners are increasingly concerned about pathways to radicalisation, including those leading to violent extremism, present…
Sara AnianoFar-Right Responses to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
After weeks of relative uncertainty, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially ordered an invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, displacing…
Meili CriezisIslamic State Supporters Keeping Tabs on Ukraine
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, extremist milieus online focused their attention on news of the war. White supremacist, far…
V. AriantiThe Death of Islamic State’s Leader Abu Ibrahim Al-Qurashi: What’s Next for Indonesian IS Supporters
Online chatter in the Indonesian pro-Islamic State (IS) milieu on the death of IS’s ‘caliph’ Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashimi Al-Qurashi reveals…
Dr. Alexis HenshawCommunication Technologies, Conspiracies, and Disinformation in Latin America: COVID-19 and Beyond
The topic of Spanish-language misinformation and disinformation has received increasing attention in recent years, with a special focus on the…
Jessica DavisCrowdfunding and Protest Financing: Emergency Law in Canada
Since late January 2022, protesters have been occupying the city of Ottawa in an extended demonstration against vaccine mandates. The…
Sam AndrewsUnderstanding Attitudes to Extremism in Gaming Communities
In our previous GNET Insight we looked at how quantitative measures can help us understand the prevalence of extreme language…
Chelsea DaymonFade to Black: Islamic State Supporter’s Reactions to the Death of Leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi
On 3 February 2022 US President Joe Biden announced the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of the…
Sahar RasoulikolamakiIslamic State’s Quest for Legitimacy through Contradictory Messaging
Leveraging upon cyberspace has been a seemingly effortless and integral part of Islamic State’s (IS) tactics since its inception to…
Linda SchlegelCreating Digital Narrative Worlds: The Promises of Transmedia Storytelling for P/CVE Narrative Campaigns
Extremism is – at least partially – a communication challenge. The acceptance of extremist narratives, which provide followers with a…
Meili CriezisIslamic State Food Enthusiasts: IS Supporters and Their Handwritten Notes of Support In Response to the Ghweran Prison Siege
Near the end of January, Islamic State fighters began their siege on Ghweran Prison in Hasakah, Syria followed by a…
Alexandria OnuohaThe Manosphere Isn’t Just White: Black Femicide and the Radicalisation of Black Male Youth
Violence against women is a large public health issue where scholars and community organisers are striving to build support to…
Erica BarbarossaUnderstanding Accelerationist Narratives: Involuntary Celibacy
“If we can’t solve our problems we must DESTROY our problems…One day incels will realise their true strength and numbers,…
Mauro LubranoThe EU Nuclear Option and the Potential for a Recrudescence of Anti-Nuclear Violence
The recent publication of the EU Taxonomy on 1 January 2022 envisions substantial investments in nuclear energy to meet the…
Maddie CannonAssessing Misogyny as a ‘Gateway Drug’ into Violent Extremism
Researchers and practitioners in the field of Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) have in recent years placed an increasing…
Sam AndrewsExploring Extreme Language in Gaming Communities
There is ongoing speculation that extremism might be prevalent in video game communities, or that these communities are especially vulnerable…
Blyth CrawfordTracing Extremist Platform Migration on the Darkweb: Lessons for Deplatforming
There is much debate surrounding the efficacy of ‘deplatforming’ extremist communities online, particularly related to whether taking down community spaces…
Jacob JohanssenIncels and Securitisation: Between Fantasy and Reality
The horrific shooting in Plymouth by Jake Davison in August 2021 has led to an ongoing discussion about incels, what…
Hannah RoseYouth-on-Youth Extreme-Right Recruitment on Mainstream Social Media Platforms
In recent months there has been a concerning number of kids and teenagers arrested for extreme-right-related terrorism offences across Western…
Marc-André ArgentinoQAnon and Beyond: Analysing QAnon Trends a Year After January 6th
For some, the electoral loss of Donald Trump and the disappearance of the figure known as “Q” was marking the…
Matthew KrinerExamining the Denver Shooter’s Ideological Views
On 27 December 2021, Lyndon McLeod shot and killed five individuals in Denver, Colorado before being shot and killed by…
Joe WhittakerOnline Radicalisation: Moving Beyond a Simple Dichotomy
There has been considerable concern about the threat of online radicalisation from policymakers, the media, and academics. This is unsurprising…
Dr. William AllchornTowards a Truly Post-Organisational UK Far Right? The Usefulness of a Newly Emergent Concept
Despite recent hype around a post-organisational phase in extremist movements, the notion of a decentralised, leaderless group or movement –…
Guri MølmenThe Role of the Internet in the Radicalisation of Extreme-Right Lone Actors
Explaining Online Radicalisation With the rise of the Internet, there has been growing interest in its impact on radicalisation and…
Kesa WhiteWebmasters of Hate: Right-Wing Extremists Are Getting Smarter Online
As a researcher who studies the far-right, I spend a lot of time tracking extremists online. Earlier this month, while…
Miron LakomyUnderstanding the Internet Propaganda Campaign of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-Affiliated Ebaa News Agency
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), al-Qaeda’s former affiliate, constitutes one of the most prominent violent extremist organisations (VEOs) that operate in…
Kayla McMinimyCensoring Extremism: Impact of Takedowns on Islamic State Visuals
Non-state extremist groups like Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda utilise various online channels to disseminate strategic information to members, sympathisers,…
Dr. Gerard GillCOVID-19 Conspiricism and the Four Ds of Stochastic Terrorism
In the past weeks, Australian counter-terrorism officials have arrested and charged a man who encouraged anti-lockdown protesters to bring firearms…
Matthew KrinerUnderstanding Accelerationist Narratives: The Boogaloo
“You wanna create f***ing some instability while the Virginia situation is happening, make other things happen. Derail some rail lines…
Sam AndrewsVideo Games, Extremism and Terrorism: A Literature Survey
Video games are extremely popular, with a market worth over $175 billion per year and at least 3 billion players…
Meili CriezisRemaining and Expanding or Surviving and Adapting? Extremist Platform Migration and Adaptation Strategies
Despite the often-decentralised nature of extremists and violent extremists in online spaces, there is clear evidence that they attempt to…
Simon CoplandThe Rise of the Far-Right Web
In October 2021 the former President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced the establishment of a new social media…
Christopher WallThe Robots Will Not Save Us: The Limits of Machine Learning for Counterterrorism
At the dawn of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld argued it would trigger a…
Kris McGuffieApplying Systematic Content Moderation for Extremist Deterrence
Platforms that are committed to making their online communities inhospitable to extremism require pragmatic, layered approaches to policy, detection, moderation,…
Dr. Sam de BoiseMusic and Online Far-Right Extremism
The idea that music leads to extreme behaviour has a long history, ranging from Plato to black metal. Blues artists…
Isaac KfirThinking About the Crime-Terror Nexus in the COVID-19 era
Research indicates that the end of the Cold War gave rise to the crime-terror nexus as states ended their support…
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