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Posts tagged with ‘Telegram’

  • Dec162024

    Telegram Homeschooling: Maintaining A Salafi-Jihadist Oriented Echo Chamber

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    Introduction Journalists have documented instances where parents used homeschooling as an opportunity to create extremist-informed curricula in the United States…

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  • Dec042024

    Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult

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    Introduction As heavy metal music begins to play on a video, a black and white face appears on the screen,…

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  • Nov222024

    Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil’s Online Extremist Landscape

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    Introduction The emergence of extremist ideologies in Brazil, particularly through the Telegram network known as Terrorgram, presents a grave threat…

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  • Oct182024

    Telegram’s Hate Memes: A Visual Analysis in the German Extremist Online Sphere

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    Introduction Memes are an integral part of modern-day communication. In their ubiquity, memes are consistently co-opted by extremist actors, including…

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  • Jul252024

    Racists Ridicule ‘Zion Don’ After Foiled Assassination

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    Content Warning: This Insight contains antisemitic, racist, and hateful imagery. Introduction Given right-wing extremists’ love of political spectacle and tendency…

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  • Jun202024

    On the Road to Quds: How the Axis of Resistance Defines Geopolitical Battlegrounds in Favour of Authoritarianism

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    Introduction ‘Shia civilization awakened’, a Russian ideologue proclaimed on his Telegram channel in early 2024, hailing the infamous Axis of…

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  • Feb262024

    ‘Stand Against the Wiles of the Devil’: Interpreting QAnon as a Pseudo-Christian Extremist Movement

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    Introduction Since the emergence of QAnon as a conspiracy theory in 2017, some self-proclaimed QAnon adherents have committed violent extremist…

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  • Feb232024

    Weapons of Mass Hate Dissemination: The Use of Artificial Intelligence by Right-Wing Extremists

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    Content Warning: this Insight contains antisemitic, racist, and hateful imagery and language. Introduction On Telegram, there is a right-wing extremist…

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  • Jan302024

    Telegram’s Role in Amplifying Tehreek-e-Taliban’s Umar Media Propaganda and Sympathiser Outreach

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    Introduction Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is an Islamist terrorist group that operates under the umbrella of the Afghan Taliban (AT) along…

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  • Jan122024

    Channelling Protests: How Anti-Democratic Actors in Germany Mobilise via Telegram

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    Introduction March 2020 was a watershed moment for the protest scene in Germany. A dizzying array of actors mobilised in…

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