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Young People Challenging Violent Extremism Online: Insights from Asia
August 28, 2024This report examines online youth‑led initiatives involved in challenging violent extremism (CVE). It focuses on the 2013–2023 online presence of 13 youth organisations, namely: KRIS (Philippines), Youth for Peace Movement Davao de Oro (Philippines), United Voice for Peace Network Inc. (Philippines), Global Peace Youth (Philippines), Students Against Violence Everywhere, Paiman Alumni Trust, Sri Lanka Unites, ...
DOWN THE ALT-RIGHT RABBIT HOLE: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS IN THE RADICALIZATION OF DOMESTIC RIGHT-WING TERRORISTS.
August 22, 2024The article focuses on the role of social media platforms in the radicalization of domestic right-wing terrorists. It discusses a specific case of a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, where the shooter was radicalized online. It highlights the shooter’s use of social media platforms like 4chan, known for hosting extremist content, and the livestreaming ...
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board
August 22, 2024Academic literature widely assumes that extremist-housing online forums, like 4chan, uniformly celebrate acts of right-wing terrorism (e.g. via “sainthood memes”), such as those committed by Anders Breivik and Brenton Tarrant. Aside from a handful of exceptions, this body of research typically fails to acknowledge that ideologically likeminded individuals on 4chan also regularly debate the merits of both ...
How virtual relationality enables the incel collective, its narrative and violence
August 22, 2024Involuntary celibates (incels) are individuals who feel alienated from society because of their perceived inability to attract women. They share a narrative which valorises violence as a means to restructure society according to misogynistic ideals. Since promoting a radical misogynistic ideology through violence is legally prohibited and socially unacceptable, it is necessary for incels to ...
Phishing for Nazis: Conspiracies, Anonymous Communications and White Supremacy Networks on the Dark Web
August 22, 2024In 1993, a largely forgotten neo-Nazi named Milton Kleim Jr. launched (what was yet to be called a website titled) “Aryan News Network” with the proto-internet platform USENET. Building upon more than a decade of revolutionary new communications technologies—embraced early and often by right-wing extremists—this peer-to-peer tool was intended as a form of ‘guerrilla warfare’ ...
The Hidden Face of Hate Groups Online: A Former’s Perspective
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
ISIS’s Online Propaganda and Underlying Psychological Orientations of Its Consumers
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...