- Apr212023Meili Criezis
Wilayat Facebook and Instagram: An Exploration of Pro-IS Activities on Mainstream Platforms
in InsightsIntroduction Previous research has greatly contributed to establishing and building our understanding of IS spaces on Telegram, Twitter, Facebook, and…
- Apr132023Manfredi Pozzoli
Violent Assemblages: Rethinking Screens, Media, and Lone Wolf Terrorism
in InsightsIntroduction Terrorist acts often confront the public with gruesome images and unthinkable suffering. Understanding the motivations of terrorist attacks is…
- Mar202023Khalil Boughali
Frank James: The New York Subway Shooter’s Radical Discourse on Social Media
in InsightsIntroduction On April 12, 2022, Frank R. James carried out a shooting in the New York City Subway, injuring ten…
- Feb152023Harrison Pates
The Dangers of Pseudohistorical Conspiracy Theories
in InsightsIntroduction In November 2022, Netflix released their controversial documentary-style series entitled Ancient Apocalypse. It featured the musings of Graham Hancock,…
- Dec202022Kabir Taneja
How the Taliban is Building New Grey Areas for Global Tech to Address
in InsightsIntroduction It has been more than a year since horrifying images of the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan emerged. The…
- Dec072022Ye Bin Won
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…
- Nov162022Jordan Chapman
Hitting Rock Bottom: The Radicalising Potential of Celebrity Culture
in InsightsIn less than a month, Kanye West went from being one of the world’s most famous musicians and designers to…
- Sep082022Dr. Ryan Scrivens
Right-Wing Extremists’ Use of the Internet: Emerging Trends in the Empirical Literature
in InsightsIntroduction Close attention by journalists and policymakers to the widespread use of the Internet by violent Western (i.e., American, Canadian,…
- Aug172022Joe Whittaker
Recommendation Systems and Extremism: What Do We Know?
in InsightsOne of the most persistent policy concerns of recent years is the notion that social media platforms’ recommendation systems restrict…
- Mar052021Dr. Amarnath Amarasingam
Turning the Tap Off: The Impacts of Social Media Shutdown After Sri Lanka’s Easter Attacks
in InsightsThis blog post is a summary of key findings from research published by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism as part of…
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