Adam RoussellePropaganda as Financial Infrastructure: How Islamic State and al-Qaeda Media Ecosystems Enable Terrorist Finance
Read morePropaganda ecosystems function as parallel trust infrastructures, enabling extremist organisations to coordinate financial activity outside formal financial systems. While extremist…
Muskan SangwanOperation Ghost Protocol: Infrastructure-Level Evasion in Islamic State Supporter Ecosystems
Read moreIn a pro–Islamic State Rocket.Chat (TechHaven) channel, a lengthy post appeared on 11 February 2026 under the title: “Operation Ghost…
Eleonora Ristuccia“No shadowbans. No algorithmic games”: The Exploitation of UpScrolled by the pro-Islamic State Online Ecosystem
Read moreMajor social media platforms have intensified content moderation efforts in recent years in response to growing regulatory pressure and concerns…
Rueben DassUnderstanding Terrorist Innovation: A Case Study in Drone Adoption
Read moreModern conflict has been shaped by the use of new and emerging technologies. The use of drones is a prime…
Nurrisha IsmailExtremist Nasheeds: Emerging Subcultures and the Cultivation of Radical Online Communities in Southeast Asia
Read moreThis Insight relies on open-source intelligence to examine how nasheeds – Islamic hymns – are exploited by violent extremist actors,…
Alessandro BolpagniExtremist Content Curation: Moderation Challenges on Pinterest and Means to Move Forward
Read moreOn 17 October 2025, the Coimisiún na Meán – Ireland’s agency for developing and regulating a thriving, diverse, creative, safe…
Daria Alexe“Agentic Smurfing”: How AI-Autonomous Micro-Laundering is Outpacing Traditional Terrorist Financing Detection
Read moreThe convergence of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency has created a new threat to counter-terrorism financing frameworks. By late 2025, extremist…
Muskan SangwanModern Warfare: The Islamic State’s Emerging Drone Instruction Ecosystem
Read moreOver the past decade, Islamic State (IS) has repeatedly adjusted the way it teaches technical skills, responding both to changes…
Riza KumarThe Weaponisation of Femininity: Gendered Realities in ISIS’s Digital Caliphate
Read moreThis Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series, aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism…
Meili CriezisHave Any Change to Spare? How the Islamic State Leverages Instagram for Fundraising
Read moreFollowing the 2019 Battle of Baghouz, which marked the Islamic State’s territorial collapse, IS-affiliated individuals flooded into camps run by…
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