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A Strategic Communications Approach to Tackling Current, Emerging and New Violent Extremist Threats in Europe
October 24, 2024This policy brief explores new and innovative communications approaches to reduce the threat from all forms of violent extremism in Europe today based on a precise analysis of the strategic problem and corresponding strategic communications solutions deployable in response. In the context of an ever-evolving violent extremist landscape, including new and emerging forms of violent ...
Who Needs Courts? A Deeper Look At the European Commission’s Plans to Speed Up Content Takedowns
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Comparing Topic and Tone of Tweets by Far-Right Political Parties Versus Right-Wing Extremist Movements in the Netherlands, UK, and Germany
August 20, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
The European Far Right and Islamist Extremism on Twitter: From Radicalisation to Political Participation
September 18, 2023This article explores the results of a study on media participation on Twitter in 2018/2019 perceived as contributing to far right and Islamist radical ideologies, in 7 European countries. By combining online ethnography and big data approaches, we see that online far right extremism in Europe is active and ranks are growing, while Islamist extremism ...
Online Political Hate Speech in Europe: The Rise of New Extremisms
September 18, 2023Thought-provoking and timely, this book addresses the increasingly widespread issue of online political hatred in Europe. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it examines both the contributions of new technologies, in particular social networks, to the rise of this phenomenon, and the legal and political contexts in which it is taking place. Giovanni Ziccardi also evaluates possible ...