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Posts tagged with ‘Middle East’

  • Apr022024

    Virtual Battlegrounds: Understanding the Online Campaign of Baloch Separatist Groups in Pakistan

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    Background Heavy breathing fills the audio as the head-mounted camera captures a gun, apparently an M203 Under-Barrel Grenade Launcher, its…

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  • Mar182024

    CLASSIFIED 1948/2024: What Israeli AI Implementation Teaches Us About the Warfare of Tomorrow

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    Introduction Israel has become one of the most technologically advanced and AI-driven countries in the world almost 76 years after…

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  • Feb012024

    Pakistan Under Threat: Why ISKP’s Online Campaign Against Pakistan is a Global Concern

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    Introduction The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) has increasingly focused on Pakistan in its online propaganda campaigns in recent months.…

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  • Dec222023

    Pro-Taliban Media Campaign Highlights Regional Threats to Afghanistan’s Neighbours

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    Introduction One online media campaign frequently expresses views that are consistent with those held among top policymakers in the Taliban…

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  • Dec182023

    Hezbollah’s Online Battleground: Military Media Unit’s Narratives on Telegram 

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    Introduction Since 7 October, war has been raging in the Gaza Strip, as Hamas and Israel fight each other in…

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  • Nov172023

    Hindutva Disinformation Machine: How India is Using the Israel-Palestine War to Spur Anti-Muslim Sentiment at Home

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    Introduction Amidst the flood of unverified and misleading claims on the Israel-Palestine war, India has emerged as an unlikely leading…

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  • Nov132023

    For the Lulz?: AI-generated Subliminal Hate is a New Challenge in the Fight Against Online Harm

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    Content Warning: this Insight contains antisemitic and hateful imagery Many social media networks actively remove harmful content from their platforms.…

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  • Nov102023

    How the Indian Far-Right is Using the Israeli Conflict to Spread Islamophobic Disinformation

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    The ongoing hostilities between Israel and Palestine have brought several aspects of the conflict into sharp focus. One critical dimension…

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  • Nov062023

    A Revival of Online Terror Propaganda Ecosystems in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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    Introduction Two years following the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, the now prevailing ecosystem of the so-called Islamic Emirate…

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  • Oct312023

    How al-Shabaab is Using Social Media to Build a Bridge between Gaza and Somalia

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    Content warning: This Insight contains graphic imagery of war – some images have been blurred. Introduction While the world’s focus…

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