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Posts tagged with ‘Social Media’

  • Mar132026

    Operation Herof-2: How Hakkal Media Weaponised the BLA’s Narrative Online

    On 31 January, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organisation, launched the so-called Operation Herof-2 (Herof is…

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  • Mar112026

    Inside the Discord Server: Echo Chambers and the Spread of Gen-Z Radicalisation

    This Insight examines how extremist aesthetics and narratives inspired by jihadist groups are produced, circulated, and normalised within digital communities…

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  • Feb232026

    Undermoderated and Overlooked: Arabic Online Content on the Bondi Beach Attack

    Following the heinous attack on members of the Jewish community celebrating Chanukkah on Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025, large…

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  • Feb162026

    Extremist Content Curation: Moderation Challenges on Pinterest and Means to Move Forward

    On 17 October 2025, the Coimisiún na Meán – Ireland’s agency for developing and regulating a thriving, diverse, creative, safe…

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  • Dec182025

    Participatory Memetic Violence: Legend, Ostension, and Ideologically Diffuse Violence

    Folk studies are not a source of analysis often used in the P/CVE space. However, the field is littered with…

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  • Dec162025

    Digital Weaponisation: Taliban Propaganda and Narrative Warfare on X

    The Pakistani state and Afghan Taliban forces recently clashed along the Durand Line—one of the world’s most volatile borders. This…

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  • Dec112025

    The Weaponisation of Femininity: Gendered Realities in ISIS’s Digital Caliphate

    This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series, aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism…

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  • Nov262025

    Intersectionality in the Incelosphere: Understanding the Racial Dimensions of Misogynistic Extremism

    This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series, aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism…

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  • Nov212025

    Neo-Nazi Exploitation Online: AI Voice-Cloning and the Revival of Hitler Speeches

    For over a year, neo-Nazi networks have been exploiting readily available AI voice-cloning tools to produce English-language versions of Adolf…

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  • Aug202025

    Spreading Fire: Arson, Social Media, and the Violent Extreme-Right in Ireland

    In early June 2025, anti-migrant violence exploded in Northern Ireland following the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by…

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