UN, Countering and Addressing Online Hate Speech: A Guide for policy makers and practitioners
January 23, 2025
This document sets up the main recommendations identified through the three years of engagement and dialouge on this topic. It is anchored in the discussions from the round tables. It further builds on the experiences from UN field presences that are working to address these challenges at country level. The paper is the result of a ...
Evaluating ‘Transnationalism’ as an Analytical Lens for Understanding REMVE Terrorism
January 23, 2025
This article explores the extent to which ‘transnationalism’ offers analysts a meaningful prism through which to analyze racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist (REMVE) terrorism or whether the term obscures more than it illuminates. The ‘transnational’ dimension of REMVE terrorism is often ill-defined and misunderstood, leading to misconceptions about the nature of such networks that ...
Radicalisation through Gaming: The Role of Gendered Social Identity
January 23, 2025
This project aims to understand, through a gender and intersectional lens, how socialisation processes coupled with exposure to harassment, hate-based discrimination and extreme content can potentially lower resilience to radicalisation in gaming. ...
Online Hate and Harassment: The American Experience 2024
December 20, 2024
Severe online hate and harassment increased four points across the board in the past year, which was dominated by an unprecedented surge in antisemitism online and offline in the wake of Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel on October 7. Decreases in platform enforcement and data access and new threats of hate and disinformation from generative ...
Systemic Risk in Digital Services: Benchmarks for Evaluating Management of Risk of Terrorist Content Dissemination
December 19, 2024
The Digital Services Act (DSA) requires designated Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOPs and VLOSEs) conduct assessments of the systemic risk of the dissemination of illegal content through their services- and to mitigate such risk where it arises. With regulators, researchers, civil society, and the general public finally due to see ...
Online Content from Israel and Gaza Conflict
December 3, 2024
Online content generated during the [Israel/Palestine] conflict is having a profound impact on individuals, communities, and societies around the world. It is causing violence, fear, suffering, and damaging social cohesion. The situation raises important questions around how the Call responds to ongoing conflicts and converging crises that cause a spike in and sustained production of ...
User Journeys in Online Extremist Groups
November 27, 2024
This project by GNET looks at the user journeys of individuals who enter and participate in the online spaces of extremist communities. A user journey here refers to the distinct path a user may follow to reach their goals when accessing and using an online space belonging to extremist communities. User journeys are particularly important in ...
30 Years of Trends in Terrorist and Extremist Games
November 7, 2024
Violent extremist, terrorist, and targeted hate actors have been actively exploiting video games to propagandise, recruit and fundraise for more than 30 years. This report presents an analysis of that history using a unique dataset, the Extremist and Terrorist Games Database (ETGD), developed by the authors. It contains 155 reviewed entries of standalone games, modifications ...
From Bad to Worse: Auto-generating & Autocompleting Hate
October 29, 2024
Do social media and search companies exacerbate antisemitism and hate through their own design and system functions? In this joint study by the ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS) and Tech Transparency Project (TTP), we investigated search functions on both social media platforms and Google. Our results show how these companies’ own tools–such as ...
From Bad to Worse: Algorithmic Amplification of Antisemitism and Extremism
October 29, 2024
Do social media companies exacerbate antisemitism and hate through their own recommendation and amplification tools? We investigated how four of the biggest social media platforms treated users who searched for or engaged with content related to anti-Jewish tropes, conspiracy theories, and other topics. Three of them–Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter1 (now known as X after a ...