Online Extremism
Tracing Transnational Linkages on Twitter: Mapping Indian Diaspora Supporters of Brexit and Trump
August 5, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series: The Conceptualisation of Extremism Online
August 2, 2024VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023 Name: J.M. Berger Title: The Conceptualisation of Extremism Online Outline: The rise of the online environment has been a game changer in enabling extremist movements to destabilize civil societies around the globe. This presentation explores the interface between extremism and the internet and presents contemporary approaches to understanding violent ...
Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) 2024 Reflections: Effective Cross-Sector Collaboration
July 31, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Rethinking Social Media and Extremism
September 18, 2023Terrorism, global pandemics, climate change, wars and all the major threats of our age have been targets of online extremism. The same social media occupying the heartland of our social world leaves us vulnerable to cybercrime, electoral fraud and the ‘fake news’ fuelling the rise of far-right violence and hate speech. In the face of ...
A semi-supervised algorithm for detecting extremism propaganda diffusion on social media
September 18, 2023Extremist online networks reportedly tend to use Twitter and other Social Networking Sites (SNS) in order to issue propaganda and recruitment statements. Traditional machine learning models may encounter problems when used in such a context, due to the peculiarities of microblogging sites and the manner in which these networks interact (both between themselves and with ...
How does language influence the radicalisation process? A systematic review of research exploring online extremist communication and discussion
September 18, 2023Contemporary research has highlighted the steady rise of individuals becoming radicalised via exposure to extremist discussion on the internet, with the ease of communication with other users that the internet provides playing a major role in the radicalisation process of these individuals. The aim of the present systematic review was to explore recent research into ...
Who Should Regulate Extremist Content Online?
September 18, 2023As liberal democracies grapple with the evolution of online political extremism, in addition to governments, social media and internet infrastructure companies have found themselves making more and more decisions about who gets to use their platforms, and what people say online. This raises the question that this paper explores, who should regulate extremist content online? ...
Academic and Practical Research Working Group White Paper: Extremism Research Horizons
September 18, 2023This white paper maps these continually shifting dynamics, drawing on proceedings from meetings of the Academic and Practical Research Working Group of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), the work of the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), and original desk research. In doing so, it identifies key emerging trends and research ...