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Posts tagged with ‘Social Media’

  • Dec092020

    Praising Jihadist Attacks on TikTok and the Challenge of Protecting Youths From Online Extremism

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    On 26 November 2020, a Pakistani imam from a small town north of Paris was sentenced to 18 months in…

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  • Nov302020

    Exploring the Link Between Uncertainty, Ahistoricism and Algorithms

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    We are living in a time of extreme uncertainty. Nothing seems real because any fact is contestable. There are several…

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  • Nov202020

    Cyberwar on Twitter: Cyber-Vigilantes vs Islamic State

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    With the multiplication of online jihadi content and terrorist attacks in the West in recent years, some users and hacktivist…

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  • Nov132020

    Baghdadi Fan Mail

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    An earlier version of this Insight incorrectly mentioned Denmark in the table below, instead of Austria. This has now been…

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  • Nov092020

    Extremist Experimentation with Text-Based Instant Messaging Applications

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    The text-based instant messaging platform Telegram has become a chief coordinating forum for several extremist online milieus over the past…

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  • Nov062020

    Social Media and the Murder of Samuel Paty

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    Could better monitoring have prevented a terror attack? If we recap the spiral of events that led to the beheading…

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  • Nov022020

    From ShamiWitness to QMap: The Movement of ‘One’ in Online Radicalisation

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    The development of the right-wing conspiracy ecosystem known as QAnon in and around the US elections has been witnessed with…

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  • Oct262020

    LOL Extremism: Humour in Online Extremist Content

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    Humour is a staple of life found in in-person interactions and in virtual environments. Many of us have viewed, shared,…

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  • Oct222020

    Hindutva Vigilantism: Online Hate, Offline Harms

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    India is witnessing a steep rise in ethno-religious majoritarianism, and social media is playing a significant role in empowering Hindu…

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  • Oct212020

    Revisiting the Ecosystem of Islamic State’s ‘Virtual Caliphate’

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    The current ‘post-caliphate’ era of Islamic State (IS) has been widely discussed in recent years, following the organisation’s loss of…

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