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ONLINE EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM

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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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Biology as Alibi for the Manosphere

By Inger Storm Sandboe and Antara Chakraborthy Introduction Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary on the manosphere has renewed mainstream attention to…

June 10, 2026

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Latest Insights: VOX-Pol Launches Crucial New Video Series on Online Extremism, AI, and Gendered Harms

We are excited to announce that a brand-new series of videos is now live on the VOX-Pol YouTube Channel! Bringing…

June 10, 2026

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VOX-Pol Newsletter 13(6)

Welcome to Volume 13, Issue 6 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter Catch Up on the 2026 VOX-Pol Lecture Series! We…

June 9, 2026

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Biology as Alibi for the Manosphere

June 10, 2026

By Inger Storm Sandboe and Antara Chakraborthy Introduction Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary on the manosphere has renewed mainstream attention to online subcultures often dismissed as fringe. This coincides with a broader discursive shift: the normalisation of a distinct ‘biological’ vocabulary in manosphere discourse. This rhetoric usually relies on a weak scientific basis, selectively interpreted or ...

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The Void as the Caliphate: The Islamic State’s Use of Nihilistic Aesthetics to Target Estranged Youth

June 3, 2026

By Saif Tahir Nihilism, defined by the ISD as “an ideology that centres around rejection of all moral and social values with the belief that life is meaningless,” rose to recent prominence after the detection and arrest of members of the decentralised COM and 764 networks who were found coercing minors aged 8-17 into violence. ...

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