Prof. Catherine BoukoHow Salafi-Jihadists Circumvent Facebook’s Community Standards With Mythical and Eudaimonic Content
In November 2019, the European Union celebrated a small victory: over 26,000 items of self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS)-supporting content, as…
Dr. Gerard GillConspiracism, Extremism and the Battle Over Sacred Values
On 24 July 2021 in Australia, against the backdrop of a city and state sinking further into crisis, a rally…
Linda SchlegelLet’s Talk about Games, Baby: Extremist Use of Gaming (-Adjacent) Platforms
In 2020, the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator issued a warning that extremists are increasingly present in digital gaming spaces and in…
StoryfulFashwave: Extremist Audio Formats Present Complex Challenges
Extremist content is frequently coded–-both to escape moderation and to signal to others with similar ideologies. In many cases, the…
Matthew KrinerUnderstanding Accelerationist Narratives: ‘There Is No Political Solution’
On 6 January 2021, thousands of Americans inspired by the months-long online campaign to “Stop the Steal” stormed the US…
Linda SchlegelAs You Like It: User Types in Digital Gamified Radicalisation Processes
Videogames, gaming-related content, game aesthetics, gaming (-adjacent) platforms, gamification, and their potential link to digital extremist content and digitally-mediated radicalisation…
Meili CriezisErstwhile Allies and Community Convergence: A Preliminary Study of Online Interactions Between Salafi-Jihadists and White Supremacists
Recent research has begun to explore the overlaps and interactions between Salafi-jihadist and white supremacist movements and their supporters. Examining…
Kesa WhiteOne -Stop -Shop for Recruitment and Dating: Extremists’ Exploitation of Dating Platforms
Dating apps have become an essential part of life, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, as individuals have limited face-to-face interactions.…
Nicolò MiottoThe Role of Online Communities in Supporting 3D-Printed Firearms
On 9 October 2019, Stephen Balliet, a 27-year-old German neo-Nazi, shot to death two people and injured another two near…
Julien BellaicheConnecting the Fringes: Neo-Nazi Glorification of Salafi-Jihadi Representations Online
On 1 April 2021, the French security service of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (DGSI) received an urgent…
Noah TurnerThe Global Jihadist Movement and Cyberterrorism
The events of 11 September 2001 placed jihadi-inspired extremism at the forefront of counterterrorism policy. Legislation such as the USA…
Jordan McSwineyMemes in Far-Right Digital Visual Culture
Internet memes are an important means of visual communication for the far-right. As American white supremacist Richard Spencer bragged to…
Dr. Chamila LiyanageThe Great Subcultural Convergence: How Illiberalism is Whipping Up a Storm
What are the extremist threats being incubated thanks to the technological advantages of the Internet? We could easily answer this…
Kabir TanejaFrom ‘Night Letters’ to the Internet: Propaganda, the Taliban and the Afghanistan Crisis
The fast-unfolding crisis in Afghanistan, spearheaded by the Taliban’s territorial juggernaut and the fall of Kabul, also became a significant…
Meili CriezisInsurrection Snapshot: Emerging Narrative Themes Following the January 6 Storming of the US Capitol
Although individuals on the far right, fascists, and white supremacists had a prior presence on Telegram, the aftermath of the…
Dr. Kumar RamakrishnaThe ‘4M Way’ to Promoting Alternative Narratives to Violent Islamist Extremism in Muslim Mindanao
Following the collapse of the so-called caliphate in March 2019, Islamic State (IS) has “repositioned its propaganda narrative to one…
Alexandria OnuohaDigital Misogynoir and White Supremacy: What Black Feminist Theory Can Teach Us About Far Right Extremism
What is Misogynoir? Far-right studies has been historically overrepresented by white scholars and those who don’t acquaint themselves with Black…
Kesa WhiteWhite Nationalists are Driving the CRT Conversation Online
Critical race theory (CRT) has become an important topic of discussion, but parent activists and governments are not the only…
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…
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