Anonymous AuthorSpreading Fire: Arson, Social Media, and the Violent Extreme-Right in Ireland
Read moreIn early June 2025, anti-migrant violence exploded in Northern Ireland following the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by…
Beatriz BuarqueThe Weaponisation of AI: Visual storytelling of the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory Amid the Southport Riots
Read moreArtificial intelligence played a key role in the riots that followed the stabbing attack in Southport, UK, which claimed the…
Luke BaumgartnerAI at the Centre: Violent Extremist Exploitation in Pirkkala
Read moreOn 20 May 2025, a 16-year-old boy stabbed three of his female classmates at the Vähäjärvi school in Pirkkala, Finland.…
Matilde GambaAbove the Battlefield: The Threat of UAVs in the Hands of VNAs
Read moreIn 21st-century warfare, the loudest weapon may not be a missile, but rather the soft hum of a drone overhead.…
Mauro Lubrano‘Welcome Spring, Burn a Tesla’: The Insurrectionary Anarchist Campaign Against Tesla
Read moreIntroduction This Insight explores the growing wave of attacks against Tesla across Europe and North America. While some incidents appear…
Urszula MrozowskaFrom Climate Hoax to Hate: The Overlap Between Climate Denial and White Supremacy on Spanish TikTok
Read moreIntroduction Big tech platforms have a significant language moderation problem. There is a massive discrepancy among popular Western apps in…
admin_gnetWhen Grandpa Turns Extremist: Digital Immigrants, Radicalisation and the German Reich Citizens Movement
Read moreIntroduction Online radicalisation studies and P/CVE research, more broadly, tend to focus primarily on younger individuals and cases.…
Per-Albin JohanssonNorthern Spirits: Gamification and Youth Recruitment in the Nordic Region
Read moreIntroduction Video games are increasingly becoming a fertile ground for exploitation by criminal and extremist networks. A comprehensive report from…
Stephen BlinderIn Sweden, a Domestic Troll Farm Tests Democracy
Read moreIntroduction Since the mid-twentieth century, Sweden has enshrined itself as a beacon of pluralistic, liberal social democracy. The much-admired “Swedish…
Wyn BrodersenTelegram’s Hate Memes: A Visual Analysis in the German Extremist Online Sphere
Read moreIntroduction Memes are an integral part of modern-day communication. In their ubiquity, memes are consistently co-opted by extremist actors, including…
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