Are There Limits to Online Free Speech?: Part I
By Alice E. Marwick In November 2016, Twitter shut down the accounts of numerous alt-right leaders and white nationalists. Richard Spencer, the head of the National Policy Institute and a vocal...
View ArticleAre There Limits to Online Free Speech?: Part II
By Alice E. Marwick This post is part II of the series. Please click here to read part I. Free Speech and a Free Internet In 1997, the Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Reno v. ACLU case that...
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Measuring the impact of your online counter or alternative narrative campaign...
The Radicalisation Awareness Network’s (RAN) Communications & Narratives’ Working Group meeting on 13 and 14 February, 2017 in Brussels focused on how to measure the impact of an online counter or...
View ArticleSocial Media, Corporate Responsibilities and Youth Extremism
This report is part of the ESRC Research Seminar Series By Prof. Hilary Pilkington On the heels of significant electoral successes and several instances of extraordinary extremist violence, there has...
View ArticlePaths to Radicalism and Extremism
This Blog post is a product of the ESRC-funded Youth Extremisms Research Seminar Series. By Prof. Hilary Pilkington Following significant electoral successes for populist radical right parties and...
View ArticleWomen’s Roles in Terrorism and Women Fighting Back
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. On International Women’s Day it seems important to recognize strong women and the unique characteristics of women to play important roles in defeating terrorism. In the past...
View ArticleMethodological problems in online radicalisation
By Joe Whittaker There seems to be near-ubiquity between discussion of radicalisation to violent extremism and the Internet. Despite this, the study of online radicalisation remains under-researched...
View ArticleTerrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers: Part I – Quantifying...
This post is Part 1 of 3. Background Previous research on terrorist use of the Internet generally discusses the opportunities offered by the Internet to terrorist groups. Such accounts implicitly view...
View ArticleTerrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers: Part II – Quantifying...
This post is Part 2 of 3; Part I is HERE. Background Last week’s post—part I of three in this series—presented findings on convicted UK terrorists’ online behaviours from a large scale analysis based...
View ArticleTerrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers: Part III – Research and Policy...
This post is Part 3 of 3; Part I is HERE and Part II HERE. Also, a PDF combining all three posts is available HERE Collectively, the results from the open source data analysis presented in Part I and...
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How and why vehicle ramming became the attack of choice for terrorists
By Yannick Veilleux-Lepage The recent car-and-knife attack in London was just the latest in a string of high-profile incidents where assailants have used vehicles as deadly weapons. This type of attack...
View ArticleHow is the Islamic State dealing with its defeat in Mosul? Interview with...
By Joel Wing More than half of Mosul has fallen to Iraqi government forces and it is only a matter of time before the whole city is retaken. How is the Islamic State portraying this defeat? Has it...
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Despite short-term increases in arrests, counter-extremism powers need to do...
By Bharath Ganesh In early March, the Home Office published new counter-terrorism statistics that indicated a significant increase in the arrest of ‘white’ extremists. Tabloids in the UK, including The...
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The Daily Harvester: How ISIS Disseminates Propaganda over the Internet...
By Lorand Bodo, M.A. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. As ISIS is rapidly losing its territory in Syria and Iraq they continue to win on the digital battlefield, maintaining a strong recruiting presence in...
View ArticleAutomated censorship is not the answer to extremism
By Jim Killock In a report published last month by the Home Affairs Select Committee brands social media companies as behaving irresponsibly in failing to remove extremist material. It takes the view...
View ArticleThe Role of the Internet in the Jihadist Mobilisation of Women in Spain
The mobilisation of women for the jihadist cause emerged in Spain within the framework of the current mobilisation in Western Europe linked to the conflict in Syria and Iraq and the appearance of the...
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Telegram: The Mighty Application that ISIS Loves – Part 1
By Ahmet S. Yayla & Anne Speckhard ISIS has been the most successful terrorist organization in history using social media and the Internet for distributing its propaganda, dissemination of its news...
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Telegram: The Mighty Application That ISIS Loves – PART II
This post is Part 2 of 2. Click here for Part 1 By Ahmet S. Yayla & Anne Speckhard Reaching out on to ISIS members via Telegram channels is a significant challenge for beginners. First of all, as...
View ArticleThe UK’s plan to deny terrorists ‘safe spaces’ online would make us all less...
By Molly Land In the wake of the recent attacks in Manchester and London, British Prime Minister Theresa May has called on social media companies to eliminate “safe spaces” online for extremist...
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Virtual Doorstep: Journalists, Social Media and the Victims of Tragedy
By Glenda Cooper Some of the most powerful stories about the atrocity in recent Manchester have been told online: whether pictures of the missing, the videos taken in the aftermath or the hashtags such...
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