Islamic State (IS)
Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns
October 29, 2024Over the past decade, a large number of extremist and hate groups have turned to internet platforms to inspire mass violence. Currently, there is little reliable evidence on how such campaigns radicalize targeted audiences. We provide systematic, large-scale, microevidence on the effect of Islamic State propaganda on social media. We use several machine learning algorithms ...
Media Matters: How Operation Shujaa Degraded the Islamic State’s Congolese Propaganda Output
October 24, 2024Just three years ago, the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province was the poster child for the Islamic State’s efforts to maintain a constant and lingering threat across the globe. That year, the group conducted a series of regional terrorist attacks across Central and East Africa, and expanded inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More ...
One-to-one Digital Interventions: How can Practitioners Directly Reach Young People Expressing Interest in Extremist Content Online?
October 24, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Following in the Trail of Islamic State: The Rise of Media Platforms in the Jihadist Ecosystem
October 20, 2024This article examines the role of media platforms in the jihadist propaganda ecosystem. It presents a case study of the Muntasir Media platform which achieved extensive media impact in Spain during the period 2018–19. A descriptive analysis is provided of the emergence, evolution and demise of the platform, which can be viewed as an archetypal ...
Bangladesh’s political transition viewed as opportunity by Islamic State and al-Qaeda
October 2, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
The Islamic State’s Manipulation of Gender in their Online Information Operations
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Online Extremism: UK Government’s Islamic State Blocking Tool is Neat but Incomplete
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Reverse-Engineering the ISIS Playbook, Part I: CT-CVE Messaging Lessons from ISIS’s English-Language Magazines
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Reverse-Engineering the ISIS Playbook, Part II: CT-CVE Messaging Lessons from ISIS’s English-language Magazines
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...