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Examining extremist language use amongst Australian members of an online far-right forum
November 27, 2024Far-right extremists use the internet to recruit and connect with other radicalised individuals and spread their propaganda online, with them being prolific users of online forums and social media. Such online data can be analysed using linguistic tools to identify markers of radicalisation in social media, forum posts, and other extremist texts. Few studies have ...
Organizing for Innovation: Lessons from Digital Counterterrorism
November 27, 2024Digital platforms were slow to build robust teams to counter threat actors, but today, many of those corporate teams have robust processes, specialized tools, and innovative approaches to countering highly adaptive adversaries. They operate in a tremendously dynamic environment where their adversaries can innovate at low cost, primarily because of the nature of the digital ...
Subscribe to Subversion: The (German) Telegram-YouTube Pipeline
November 27, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Ideology Alone is Not Enough: The Past, Present, and Future of Terrorist Training
November 27, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Social media influencers, the far right and their potential impact on youth (radicalisation)
November 27, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Beyond Western Misogyny: A growing incel movement in Turkey?
November 27, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Counter-narratives and strategic communications, offline and online
November 12, 2024Counter-radicalisation is resource-hungry; policy development and implementation, interventions through the criminal justice system, and bespoke one-to-one engagements outside of it are all costly. In contrast, counter narrative campaigns ostensibly offer a simpler proposition. By engaging with various audiences, campaigners from both the state and civil society can seek to reduce the number of people turning ...
Content moderation: Social media and countering online radicalisation
November 12, 2024As terrorist, extremist, and hateful content has become widespread on social media, platforms have responded with content moderation – the flagging, review, and enforcement of rules and standards on user-generated content online. This chapter provides an introduction to contemporary content moderation practices, technologies, and contexts and outlines key debates in the field. The chapter explores ...
Grounds for Cooperation in the Radicalisation Governance Milieu? A Qualitative Exploration of Stakeholder Issue Frames of Online Radicalisation
November 7, 2024In the study of online radicalisation, little attention has been paid to the way local stakeholders within the broader online radicalisation milieu define, frame, and problematise online radicalisation. As these conceptions and problematisations are crucial to the possibility of cooperation and coordination between them, this lacuna represents a curious oversight. Drawing on a cross-national and ...