- Apr212023
Wilayat Facebook and Instagram: An Exploration of Pro-IS Activities on Mainstream Platforms
By Meili Criezis in InsightsIntroduction Previous research has greatly contributed to establishing and building our understanding of IS spaces on Telegram, Twitter, Facebook, and…
Meili Criezis - Apr132023
Violent Assemblages: Rethinking Screens, Media, and Lone Wolf Terrorism
By Manfredi Pozzoli in InsightsIntroduction Terrorist acts often confront the public with gruesome images and unthinkable suffering. Understanding the motivations of terrorist attacks is…
Manfredi Pozzoli - Mar202023
Frank James: The New York Subway Shooter’s Radical Discourse on Social Media
By Khalil Boughali in InsightsIntroduction On April 12, 2022, Frank R. James carried out a shooting in the New York City Subway, injuring ten…
Khalil Boughali - Feb152023
The Dangers of Pseudohistorical Conspiracy Theories
By Harrison Pates in InsightsIntroduction In November 2022, Netflix released their controversial documentary-style series entitled Ancient Apocalypse. It featured the musings of Graham Hancock,…
Harrison Pates - Dec202022
How the Taliban is Building New Grey Areas for Global Tech to Address
By Kabir Taneja in InsightsIntroduction It has been more than a year since horrifying images of the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan emerged. The…
Kabir Taneja - Dec072022
Influential Moms: Examining Extremist Influencer Mothers
This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series in partnership with Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. This series…
Ye Bin Won - Nov162022
Hitting Rock Bottom: The Radicalising Potential of Celebrity Culture
By Jordan Chapman in InsightsIn less than a month, Kanye West went from being one of the world’s most famous musicians and designers to…
Jordan Chapman - Sep082022
Right-Wing Extremists’ Use of the Internet: Emerging Trends in the Empirical Literature
By Dr. Ryan Scrivens in InsightsIntroduction Close attention by journalists and policymakers to the widespread use of the Internet by violent Western (i.e., American, Canadian,…
Dr. Ryan Scrivens - Aug172022
Recommendation Systems and Extremism: What Do We Know?
By Joe Whittaker in InsightsOne of the most persistent policy concerns of recent years is the notion that social media platforms’ recommendation systems restrict…
Joe Whittaker - Mar052021
Turning the Tap Off: The Impacts of Social Media Shutdown After Sri Lanka’s Easter Attacks
This blog post is a summary of key findings from research published by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism as part of…
Dr. Amarnath Amarasingam
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