- Jan302023Jade Hutchinson
More Than Just Pretty Pictures: A Comparison of Australian and Canadian Far-Right Extremist ‘Reaction’ Usage on Facebook
in InsightsIntroduction In recent years, a significant amount of research has paid attention to the widespread use of social media among…
- Jan252023Justin Grandinetti
Political Outrage Machines: Exploring the Algorithms Structuring Conspiracy TikTok
in InsightsThe short-form streaming audio-video app TikTok has become near-synonymous with controversy—in no small part because of the spread of conspiratorial…
- Oct312022Brody McDonald
Extremists are Seeping Back into the Mainstream: Algorithmic Detection and Evasion Tactics on Social Media Platforms
in InsightsAs ISIS established its caliphate in 2014, its supporters flooded mainstream social media platforms to share propaganda, plan attacks, and…
- Sep212022Ellie Rogers
The Role of User Agency in the Algorithmic Amplification of Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content
in InsightsThere is an increasing focus by governments and certain concerned civil society initiatives that algorithms might be amplifying terrorist and…
- Aug172022Joe Whittaker
Recommendation Systems and Extremism: What Do We Know?
in InsightsOne of the most persistent policy concerns of recent years is the notion that social media platforms’ recommendation systems restrict…
- Oct142021Isaac Kfir
Algorithms, the Search for Transcendence and Online Radicalisation
in InsightsResearch on online radicalisation and recruitment has become increasingly sophisticated, with scholars looking at the processes, pathways, and triggers that…
- Nov302020Isaac Kfir
Exploring the Link Between Uncertainty, Ahistoricism and Algorithms
in InsightsWe are living in a time of extreme uncertainty. Nothing seems real because any fact is contestable. There are several…
- Nov252020Tiana Gaudette
Upvoting Extremism: Collective Identity Formation and the Extreme Right on Reddit
in InsightsResearchers who have explored right-wing extremists’ use of the Internet have typically focused their attention on dedicated hate sites and…
- Nov202020Dr. Valentine Crosset
Cyberwar on Twitter: Cyber-Vigilantes vs Islamic State
in InsightsWith the multiplication of online jihadi content and terrorist attacks in the West in recent years, some users and hacktivist…
- Sep212020Dr. Yvonne Jazz Rowa
Part 2: Algorithmic Agency in Online Extremism: The Bigger Picture
in InsightsThe rapid pace of technological evolution and tactics of adversarial attacks confer epistemic authority to data scientists. These experts play…
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