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How You Thought You Support the Animals and You Ended Up Funding White...
In cooperation with French media Le Monde (in English here), the EU DisinfoLab helped expose a French white supremacist network that uses deceptive Facebook pages to attract visitors on their website...
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Don’t Just Blame YouTube’s Algorithms for ‘Radicalisation’. Humans Also Play...
By Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández and Joanne Gray People watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. Over the past few years, the video sharing platform has come under fire for its role...
View ArticleTelegram Deplatforming ISIS Has Given Them Something to Fight For
Deplatforming terrorists from messaging apps may damage existing networks, but those who remain often double down in their beliefs. By Amarnath Amarasingam Earlier this week, a fellow terrorism...
View ArticleEmpirical Studies of Online Radicalisation: A Review and Discussion
By Paul Gill Reviews of the terrorism research literature regularly highlight the paucity of original data that inform analyses (Schmid and Jongman 1988; Silke 2001, 2004). In his most recent review of...
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Analyzing Online Posts Could Help Spot Future Mass Shooters and Terrorists
By Neil Shortland and Allyssa McCabe In the weeks following two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, police forces across the United States made more than 20 arrests based on threats...
View ArticleHow the Internet has Enabled Pakistani Militants to Explore New Avenues for...
By Mehwish Rani Foreign fighters became a subject of the global security debate when many young Europeans, male and female, started travelling to Syria to take part in the conflict there in 2014 and...
View Article“Redirect Method” Yields Valuable Insights for Countering Online Extremism
In recent years, deadly white supremacist violence at houses of worship in Pittsburgh, Christchurch, and Poway demonstrated the clear line from violent hate speech and radicalization online to...
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Exploring Canadian Far-Right Extremism on Facebook
By Ryan Scrivens and Amarnath Amarasingam Following the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Canadian right-wing extremist (RWE) groups tried desperately to band together, planning a number...
View ArticleFrom the French Revolution, the First Amendment and the Third Reich to...
By Nery Ramati The need to develop legal tools in order to cope with the dangers of online extremism and terrorism has been an issue that has kept legislators, government officials, and security forces...
View ArticleFrom the French Revolution, the First Amendment and the Third Reich to...
By Neri Ramaty The need to develop legal tools in order to cope with the dangers of online extremism and terrorism has been an issue that has kept legislators, government officials, and security forces...
View ArticleFrom the French Revolution, the First Amendment and the Third Reich to...
By Nery Ramati The need to develop legal tools in order to cope with the dangers of online extremism and terrorism has been an issue that has kept legislators, government officials, and security forces...
View ArticleIs ISIS Dead or Alive?
By Moign Khawaja It has been almost two years since the Islamic State, also known as IS or ISIS, lost its final stronghold in eastern Syria and four months since its leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi was...
View ArticleTechnology and the Swarm: A Dialogic Turn in Online Far-Right Activism
By Dr. William Allchorn In late January this year, the outgoing director general of the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, Sir Andrew Parker, suggested that technology was one of the biggest challenges...
View ArticleChristchurch’s Legacy of Fighting Violent Extremism Online Must Go Further –...
By Dr. Joe Burton It didn’t take long for a terrorist to show how hard it is to prevent violent extremist content being shared online. Within six months of the attacks at two Christchurch mosques on...
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Understanding the Human Rights Risks Associated with Internet Referral Units
By Jason Pielemeier and Chris Sheehy Since 2010, a small number of European governments have created formal, government structures for flagging alleged terrorist content directly to companies for...
View ArticleHow Memes are Becoming the New Frontier of Information Warfare
By Tom Ascott Everyone has seen a meme, whether they know it or not. They’re everywhere on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The most popular ones make it off the Internet and show up in newspapers,...
View ArticleThe 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...
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