Joshua MolloyThe Emerging Raw Food Movement and the ‘Great Reset’
Introduction Food has become an increasingly visible topic across far-right digital subcultures as well as the broader right-wing online ecosystem.…
Sammie WicksNihilism and Mass Shooterism: Unclear Categories and Potential Dangers
In 2022, public mass shootings continue to present a serious societal challenge in the US. This year has already experienced over…
Dr. Lewys BraceExtremist Influencers: Hyper- and Super-Posters in Extremist Forums
Investigating Posting Behaviour in Extremist Online Spaces The growing concern over online extremist radicalisation has driven increased interest in the…
Moustafa AyadResurrecting the Reich: Middle Eastern and North African Digital Nazi Communities
In 1926, the first Nazi Party cell was set up in Alexandria, Egypt. It would soon be followed by one…
Ellie RogersThe Role of User Agency in the Algorithmic Amplification of Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content
There is an increasing focus by governments and certain concerned civil society initiatives that algorithms might be amplifying terrorist and…
Abhinaya MurthyThe Tate Storm: Why Banning Andrew Tate from Social Media Will Not Stop the ‘King of Toxic Masculinity’
“This War has Just Begun” In August 2022, UK-based advocacy group Hope Not Hate made waves when they successfully campaigned…
Matthew KrinerAnalysing Terrorgram Publications: A New Digital Zine
Introduction “For every Accelerationist who contributed to this book, there are 10000 others who will download, read and become further…
Dr. Ryan ScrivensRight-Wing Extremists’ Use of the Internet: Emerging Trends in the Empirical Literature
Introduction Close attention by journalists and policymakers to the widespread use of the Internet by violent Western (i.e., American, Canadian,…
Daniela PisoiuCan Serious Games Make a Difference in P/CVE?
Video games and gamification have become key tools of extremist actors’ recruitment arsenal and have taken a central role in…
Jon DeedmanThe Time for e-Democracy is Now: How a Digitally Functional Democracy Could Prevent Extremist Accelerationism
Online hate communities view ongoing democratic backsliding as supportive of their accelerationist cause. Tech companies and governments must therefore seize…
Weeda MehranHumour in Jihadi Rhetoric: A Comparative Analysis of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, TTP, and the Taliban
Humour in Jihadi magazines plays a significant role in the formation of collective identity and “creates a sense of internal…
Gurpreet KaurIncel Extremism in India: A View from the Global South
Content warning: this Insight contains descriptions of sexual violence. Introduction Over the years, violent crimes against women have been reported…
Mike RainsHow QAnon is Dealing With The FBI Raid on Trump
When the FBI executed their search warrant on Mar-A-Lago on August 8th, QAnon was all over the news. Their first…
Joe WhittakerRecommendation Systems and Extremism: What Do We Know?
One of the most persistent policy concerns of recent years is the notion that social media platforms’ recommendation systems restrict…
Maeve ParkUnderstanding The Incel Experience Online
Incel, short for ‘involuntarily celibate’, is self-identification used exclusively by cis-gender, straight males who congregate exclusively in online spaces, and…
Shweta DesaiInside Hindutva’s Great Replacement Conspiracy
The recent killings of African Americans in Buffalo, New York, have once again renewed discussions of the ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy…
Meili CriezisAl Qa’ida and Islamic State Supporter Reactions to Zawahiri’s Death
This Insight provides a quick overview of al-Qa’ida supporter reactions to Zawahiri’s death followed by a closer focus on pro-IS…
Moonshot TeamMass Shooterism and the Need for Online Interventions and Bystander Resources
This Insight was originally posted on Moonshot’s blog. For more information on Moonshot’s digital interventions, please visit their website or get…
Hampton StallThe Writing on the (Facebook) Wall: A Revised Assessment of Posting and Support for Violence by Pro-Rittenhouse Meme Creators
The Case Kyle Rittenhouse, the recently-acquitted teen shooter of Kenosha fame, continues to be a cultural and political lightning rod…
Dr. Ryan ScrivensComparing Online Posting Typologies Among Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists
Although many researchers, practitioners, and policymakers are concerned about identifying and characterising online posting patterns of violent extremists prior to…
Yotam OphirWhite Nationalism, Stormfront, and the Extremist Politicisation of Science
For decades, terrorists and extremists have been harnessing the affordances of media in general, and the internet, specifically, for their…
Abbie RichardsExamining White Supremacist and Militant Accelerationism Trends on TikTok
In the wake of the racially motivated terrorist attack at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York in May 2022,…
Simon PurdueIdeological Nihilism and Aesthetic Violence: Mass Shooters and Online Antisocial Subcultures
The Highland Park shooter’s online footprint has seen a lot of scrutiny in the week since his attack, and rightly…
Jessica DavisTerrorist Financing and Technology: Understanding Approaches and Anticipating Risks
Over the last two decades, there has been considerable focus in the international community on countering the financing of terrorism…
Linda SchlegelPersuading with Fantasy: Why Digital P/CVE Narrative Campaigns May Benefit from Fictional Elements
The narratives we are exposed to and the stories we tell ourselves and each other have a profound impact on…
Laurence BindnerThe Buffalo Attack – Insights From the Suspected Terrorist’s Diary
The ‘diary’ of Payton Gendron, who carried out the Buffalo attack on May 14 2022 killing ten and wounding three,…
Kabir TanejaAl Qaeda, Islamic State, and Targeted Online Propaganda Around India’s Domestic Political Discourse
Some recent comments made by party functionaries of the ruling Bharaitya Janata Party (BJP) of India on Prophet Mohammed led…
Rajan BasraThe Future is Now: The Use of 3D-Printed Guns by Extremists and Terrorists
Over the past three years, the threat of extremists and terrorists making 3D-printed guns has changed from a hypothetical to…
Dr. Gerard GillNazis, Conspiracists, and the Australian Federal Election
In April 2022, police opened fire at a car that was accelerating towards them in the middle of Paris, killing…
Carlos Q‘Mujahideen in the West’: Al-Qaeda’s Newest Attack-Inciting Magazine
In February 2022, a new English-language magazine titled Mujahideen in the West (MITW) appeared on Al-Qaeda (AQ)-affiliated media platforms. The…
Dani OIslamic State Audacity of Hope/Facebook’s Islamic State Problem
Islamic State material, in any form, not least its raw and explicit form, has no place on the open web.…
Dr. Chamila LiyanageThe Rise of Narco-Terrorism in the Age of the Internet
Narco-terrorism is a term that explains drug trafficking cartels/organised crime groups which resort to terrorism to achieve their aims. Narco-terrorism…
Dr. Suraj LakhaniThe Gamification of Violent Extremism: An Empirical Exploration of the Christchurch Attack
This Insight is based on research conducted by the author and Susann Wiedlitzka, the results of which are extensively discussed…
Valerie Dickel‘Victims of Feminism’: Exploring Networked Misogyny and #MeToo in the Manosphere
The creation and circulation of online misogynist narratives can have dreadful consequences. For example, in 2014 Elliot Rodger killed six…
Brad GallowayThe Great Replacement and the Far-Right Music Scene
With this month’s far-right attack in Buffalo, there was a lot of discussion in the popular media and amongst policymakers…
Matthew KrinerUnderstanding Accelerationist Narratives: The Great Replacement Theory
On 14 May 2022, an 18-year-old white male allegedly perpetrated a carefully planned mass shooting targeting Black Americans. He opened…
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