- Yosua Praditya
The COVID-19 Pandemic Exploited by Extremists: A Comparative Analysis of Indonesia and Germany
Read moreIntroduction COVID-19 social restrictions provided fertile ground for extremists around the world. During lockdown, as people spent significantly more time…
0 - Esteban Villa-Turek
Combating Online Extremism in the Global South: Lessons from COVID-19 Misinformation Flows
Read moreIntroduction Understanding the mechanisms driving the diffusion of problematic information – information that is “inaccurate, misleading, inappropriately attributed, or altogether…
- Maik Fielitz
Channelling Protests: How Anti-Democratic Actors in Germany Mobilise via Telegram
Read moreIntroduction March 2020 was a watershed moment for the protest scene in Germany. A dizzying array of actors mobilised in…
- Dr. Matteo Vergani
From Blaming China to Attacking Domestic Elites: The Evolution of Hate Speech in a Telegram Channel during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Read moreIntroduction Prior research has found that the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a wave of online hate speech against targets such as…
- Meghan Conroy
Duelling Narratives of Vitality and Victimhood on Right-Wing TikTok: Exploring the #Pureblood Trend
Read moreThis article is the first in a series of GNET Insights about fascist health-related trends. Introduction COVID-19 vaccines emerged as…
- Dr Alexandra Phelan
Gendered Online Messaging, Women’s Insecurities and the Impact of COVID on Violent Extremism Throughout the ASEAN Region
Read moreThis Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series in partnership with Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. This series…
- Yotam Ophir
White Nationalism, Stormfront, and the Extremist Politicisation of Science
Read moreFor decades, terrorists and extremists have been harnessing the affordances of media in general, and the internet, specifically, for their…
- Dr. Alexis Henshaw
Communication Technologies, Conspiracies, and Disinformation in Latin America: COVID-19 and Beyond
Read moreThe topic of Spanish-language misinformation and disinformation has received increasing attention in recent years, with a special focus on the…
- Dr. Gerard Gill
COVID-19 Conspiricism and the Four Ds of Stochastic Terrorism
Read moreIn the past weeks, Australian counter-terrorism officials have arrested and charged a man who encouraged anti-lockdown protesters to bring firearms…
- Isaac Kfir
Thinking About the Crime-Terror Nexus in the COVID-19 era
Read moreResearch indicates that the end of the Cold War gave rise to the crime-terror nexus as states ended their support…
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