- Nov182022Moustafa Ayad
Islamic State Supporters on Twitter: How is ‘New’ Twitter Handling an Old Problem?
in InsightsThe ‘Impersonation’ Insurgency Elon Musk has launched a war on “impersonation.” While most of those in his sights are parodying…
- Oct122022Zafar Iqbal Yousafzai
The Taliban’s Use of Twitter as a Tool to Spread their Voice
in InsightsIntroduction According to the principle of realism described by Noam Chomsky in his book Propaganda and the Public Mind, those…
- Jan212021Rachael Falk
Countering the Veil of Deep Encryption
in InsightsFor Australians, it is an image that will forever define the scourge of Islamist terrorism. The smiling face of Khaled…
- Jan112021Dr. Timothy Graham
From #ArsonEmergency to #DanLiedPeopleDied: How Extremist Messaging Co-Opts Emergency Events on the Australian Twittersphere
in InsightsAustralia experienced two major emergency events in 2020, starting off with the summer bushfires, followed shortly after by the coronavirus…
- Nov202020Dr. Valentine Crosset
Cyberwar on Twitter: Cyber-Vigilantes vs Islamic State
in InsightsWith the multiplication of online jihadi content and terrorist attacks in the West in recent years, some users and hacktivist…
- Nov062020Laurence Bindner
Social Media and the Murder of Samuel Paty
in InsightsCould better monitoring have prevented a terror attack? If we recap the spiral of events that led to the beheading…
- Nov022020Kabir Taneja
From ShamiWitness to QMap: The Movement of ‘One’ in Online Radicalisation
in InsightsThe development of the right-wing conspiracy ecosystem known as QAnon in and around the US elections has been witnessed with…
- Oct292020Hampton Stall
What’s in a Meme? The Rise of “Saint Kyle”
in InsightsThe media has been captured the past two weeks with the news of the FBI and Michigan police pressing charges…
- Oct092020Dr. Elizabeth Pearson
Lessons for 2020 from the Islamic State Online Fanclub
in InsightsIn 2015 one of the key problems for social media platforms was the rise of Islamic State (IS), their supporters…
- Jul292020David Toube
Twitter, Wiley and the Interpretation of Violent Threats
in InsightsThroughout the course of Friday 24 July, Richard Cowie – a pioneer of the “grime” genre who is more generally…
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