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By Antara Chakraborthy On the 19th of December 2024, Atul Subhash, a 28-year-old techie from Bangalore, India, recorded an 80-minute video blaming his wife, feminism, and the Indian court system, before ending his life. Within hours, his video and suicide note were widely circulated by India’s men’s rights organisations in India. Subash was hailed as ...

By Human Digital Introduction Across the 10th and 11th September 2025, people seeking footage of the shooting of Charlie Kirk triggered a 110% increase in total visitor numbers to 21 gore sites (Figure 1). As detailed in Human Digital’s VOX-Pol report, Gore & Violent Extremism, those visitors will have been exposed to videos involving graphic ...

By Kye Allen Introduction On 3 July, Constantin von Hoffmeister, then editor-in-chief of Arktos—the leading publisher of Eurasian, identitarian, and New Right thought—announced a new venture, Multipolar Press. Within two months, he was removed from his editorial position at Arktos. Unpacking the reasons behind his dismissal reveals ideological fissures within the far right’s intellectual milieu.  ...

By Garth Davies and Mackenzie B. Hart On September 25 and 26th, the Canadian Network for Research on Security, Extremism and Society (CANSES) hosted its 2nd Annual Workshop at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. First and foremost, CANSES is a network that connects individuals working on extremism across a variety of sectors. Reflecting ...

By Sarah Stevenson and Dr Steve Barracosa Practitioners working in the field of countering violent extremism (CVE) are routinely exposed to confronting and offensive ideas and content, including graphic violence, gore, hate, terrorist propaganda and ideologies. Despite this, there is a relative gap in the literature considering the experiences and well-being of practitioners undertaking this ...

Welcome to Volume 12, Issue 12 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. RECENT VOX-Pol EVENTS VOX-Pol launched the report ‘Negotiating Responses to Online Terrorism Threats in the EU: State-Platform Diplomacy 2015 – 2019‘ on Monday 17 November. At the webinar, Valère Ndior and Gavin Sullivan discussed the report with author Marguerite Borelli and host, VOX-Pol Coordinator, Stuart Macdonald. You can watch the recorded launch event on our YouTube ...

By Sara Hill When an extremist opened fire on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, murdering 51 people and injuring many more in 2019, headlines around the world began talking about ‘ecofascists’, a label the shooter had claimed in his manifesto. When that attack was followed by another a few years later using the same ...

By Ryan Ratnam Introduction Earlier this year, numerous Instagram users took to scrolling through the Reels function of the platform as usual, only to be met with extremely violent and graphic content, ranging from animal abuse to human murder. Meta apologised, saying there had been an algorithmic error which had now been rectified. However, this ...

By Francesca Gentile and Isabella Gomez O’Keefe Our recent research, presented at the VOX-Pol Next Gen Conference in Prague, explored how far-right extremist accounts on TikTok use coded language to evade content moderation systems in order to establish and reinforce in-group and out-group identities; recruit, radicalise, and mobilise individuals; and spread disinformation, conspiracy theories, and ...

The 2026 VOX-Pol Summer School is taking place at Swansea University, Singleton Campus, from Monday 22 to Friday 26 June 2026. Call for participants Swansea University is delighted to, once again, host the VOX-Pol Summer School in 2026. This week-long course will run from Monday 22nd to Friday 26th June 2026 (from 9am-5pm) and is ...