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Posts tagged with ‘Social Media’

  • Nov232023

    Meaningful Transparency for CVE: Process not Policy

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    Introduction Work aiming to counter violent extremism (CVE) must be based upon deference to the rule of law, the importance…

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  • Oct252023

    Tracing 400 Years of Mass Media Misogynoir: A History of Weaponisation by White Male Supremacists

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    Introduction The subjugation of women to physical harm and socioeconomic oppression is a fundamental component of white supremacy. For centuries,…

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  • Oct162023

    Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviours and Conflict Amplification in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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    Introduction The eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has long been plagued by conflict, violence, and societal…

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  • Oct042023

    The New Online Radicals: The Third Generation of Online Radicalisation

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    Introduction When a 13-year-old boy was caught by Estonian police in early 2020 leading a major international terrorist organisation, shockwaves…

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  • Aug182023

    Discrepancies Between Social Media Policy and User Experience: A Preliminary Study of Extremist Content

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    Introduction Latest reports have highlighted that as of April 2023, 60% of the world’s population utilises social media for an…

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  • Jul262023

    Fanboys or the Frontline?: How al-Shabaab’s Social Media Influencers are Controlling the Narrative 

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    For over a decade, the Somali-based terrorist group al-Shabaab has prioritised media engagement as a critical component of its propaganda…

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  • Jul192023

    The ‘Critical’ and the ‘Sheep’: How Users of Far-Right Pages on Social Media See Themselves and the Mainstream

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    This Insight summarises some of the findings presented in the article “Far-right virtual communities: Exploring users and uses of far-right…

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  • Jul072023

    Tradwives: The Housewives Commodifying Right-Wing Ideology

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    Introduction Gaining prominence since 2020, Tradwives are an influential online community of right-wing women who espouse a highly traditional heteronormative…

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  • Jun232023

    Terrorist Platform Migration: The Move to Smaller, Less Regulated Online Spaces

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    Introduction and Background The internet provides terrorists and violent extremist organisations (VEOs) with novel and useful means of achieving their…

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  • May192023

    Co-opting Cottagecore: Pastoral Aesthetics in Reactionary and Extremist Movements

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    A young woman wearing a modest gingham dress sits in an apple orchard reading a book. A woven basket is…

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