An academic research network on

ONLINE EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM

What is VOX-Pol?

VOX-Pol is a world-leading research network on online extremism and terrorism. It is a global network, with 30 member institutions from 12 different countries across Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia. VOX-Pol researchers have expertise in jihadism, the extreme right and left, nationalist-separatist actors, and emerging forms of extremism.

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Why Extremist Innovation Happens First in Sexualised Digital Spaces 
By Mischa Gerrard Online extremism research tends to treat gendered AI-enabled harms - such as non-consensual sexual deepfakes and synthetic…
February 18, 2026
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Masculinity and Militant Traditions: The Shaping of a Home-Grown Irish Far-Right
By Joshua Farrell-Molloy Only a decade ago, Ireland’s far right was barely visible. Its current form is rooted in 1990s…
February 11, 2026
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AI, Anger and Entitlement: What’s Fuelling Misogynistic Extremism Online
By Bernadette Johnston Misogyny and problematic attitudes towards women are not new phenomena. What is new however is the speed…
February 4, 2026
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Online Library

Our Online Library collects in one place a large volume of publications related to various aspects of violent online political extremism.

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Why Extremist Innovation Happens First in Sexualised Digital Spaces 
 February 18, 2026
By Mischa Gerrard Online extremism research tends to treat gendered AI-enabled harms – such as non-consensual sexual deepfakes and synthetic child sexual abuse material (CSAM) – as peripheral to core radicalisation mechanisms. Yet these harms represent more than isolated safety problems. Rather, they function as early-stage enabling infrastructures through which new techniques of coercion, evidentiary ...
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Masculinity and Militant Traditions: The Shaping of a Home-Grown Irish Far-Right
 February 11, 2026
By Joshua Farrell-Molloy Only a decade ago, Ireland’s far right was barely visible. Its current form is rooted in 1990s anti-abortion activism, which shaped the political careers of figures Justin Barrett and James Reynolds, who in 2016 co-founded the National Party, Ireland’s largest far-right party. The 2018 abortion referendum provided an early incubation space for ...
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2026
VOX-Pol Summer School 2026
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
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