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Posts tagged with ‘COVID-19’

  • Mar222024

    The COVID-19 Pandemic Exploited by Extremists: A Comparative Analysis of Indonesia and Germany

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    Introduction  COVID-19 social restrictions provided fertile ground for extremists around the world. During lockdown, as people spent significantly more time…

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  • Mar132024

    Combating Online Extremism in the Global South: Lessons from COVID-19 Misinformation Flows

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    Introduction Understanding the mechanisms driving the diffusion of problematic information – information that is “inaccurate, misleading, inappropriately attributed, or altogether…

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  • Jan122024

    Channelling Protests: How Anti-Democratic Actors in Germany Mobilise via Telegram

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    Introduction March 2020 was a watershed moment for the protest scene in Germany. A dizzying array of actors mobilised in…

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  • Apr062023

    From Blaming China to Attacking Domestic Elites: The Evolution of Hate Speech in a Telegram Channel during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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    Introduction  Prior research has found that the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a wave of online hate speech against targets such as…

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  • Feb222023

    Duelling Narratives of Vitality and Victimhood on Right-Wing TikTok: Exploring the #Pureblood Trend

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    This article is the first in a series of GNET Insights about fascist health-related trends. Introduction COVID-19 vaccines emerged as…

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  • Nov302022

    Gendered Online Messaging, Women’s Insecurities and the Impact of COVID on Violent Extremism Throughout the ASEAN Region

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    This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series in partnership with Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. This series…

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  • Jul202022

    White Nationalism, Stormfront, and the Extremist Politicisation of Science

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    For decades, terrorists and extremists have been harnessing the affordances of media in general, and the internet, specifically, for their…

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  • Feb242022

    Communication Technologies, Conspiracies, and Disinformation in Latin America: COVID-19 and Beyond

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    The topic of Spanish-language misinformation and disinformation has received increasing attention in recent years, with a special focus on the…

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  • Nov252021

    COVID-19 Conspiricism and the Four Ds of Stochastic Terrorism

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    In the past weeks, Australian counter-terrorism officials have arrested and charged a man who encouraged anti-lockdown protesters to bring firearms…

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  • Oct262021

    Thinking About the Crime-Terror Nexus in the COVID-19 era

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    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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