The National Security Implications of Extreme Misogyny
By Elise Thomas Online radicalisation has been a significant point of focus for the national security community in recent years. Much of this attention has been directed, rightly, at the risks posed by...
View ArticleTransparency Reporting for Smaller Platforms
By Tech Against Terrorism Transparency reporting is an important way for the tech sector to increase awareness of its internal content moderation decision-making processes. Reporting can also increase...
View ArticleKimberly Pullman: A Canadian Woman Lured Over the Internet to the ISIS Caliphate
By Anne Speckhard “If I was going to die at least I could die helping children. [It’s] illogical that you are entering a war zone that you don’t know anything about … I felt if I did something good it...
View ArticleHow do Social Media Users Talk about Terrorism Online?
By Dr. Alton Chua and Dr. Snehasish Banerjee Terrorism remains a persistent challenge worldwide. While portrayed as a threat to society and human civilisation by mainstream media, terrorists sell...
View ArticleWhere to Publish Academic Research on Online Extremism and Terrorism?: What...
By Louise Laing and Maura Conway One of the questions we get asked quite often at VOX-Pol—by not just PhD students and early career researchers, but established scholars too and, in fact, that we quite...
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Comparing Topic and Tone of Tweets by Far-Right Political Parties Versus...
By Suzanne Mos The Internet is a good place to get a sense of what topics certain groups or movements deem important. In this Blog post, I present the findings of comparative mixed methods research...
View ArticlePakistan’s Online Harm Rules: Rights to Privacy and Speech Denied
By Aryan Garg In January 2020, the federal cabinet of Pakistan approved the Citizen’s Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules to regulate social media platforms for streaming content related to...
View ArticleThe Christchurch Terror Attack: A Case of Online Radicalisation?
By Joe Whittaker & Chamin Herath On 15 March, 2019, a far-right terrorist conducted two consecutive attacks at Mosques in New Zealand’s capital, Christchurch. The attacker killed 51 people who had...
View ArticleAdversarial Shifts and the Availability of Extremist Content Online
By Conor Rees Online extremist activity is not a new phenomenon. Terrorist and Violent Extremist (TVE) use of the Internet has been increasingly well researched since the turn of the millennium. This...
View ArticlePolarisation: A Short Introduction
By Annelies Pauwels and Maarten van Alstein Polarisation comes in different forms. An important distinction can be made between ideological and affective polarisation. Ideological (or issue-based)...
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