online platforms
Forecasting Online Negativity Spikes with Multilingual Transformers for Strategic Decision-Making
May 7, 2026Social media platforms like Reddit, YouTube, and Instagram amplify rapid dissemination of negative sentiment, potentially causing harm and fostering extremist discourse. This paper addresses the NLP challenge of predicting sudden spikes in negative sentiment by fine-tuning multilingual transformer models. We present a structured pipeline emphasizing linguistic feature extraction and temporal modeling. Our experimental results, obtained ...
Understanding Online Recruitment and Mobilization Messaging by Active Club Network Content Curators
May 7, 2026This study examines how racially and ethnically motivated extremists use online platforms for recruitment and mobilization through a thematic analysis of messaging about the nature and meaning of offline engagement in extremism found on Telegram. The analysis draws on text and image data from posts shared by administrators of Telegram channels associated with the white ...
Being one step ahead: How platforms (can) counter terrorism online
April 29, 2025VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Why the New European Regulation Will Not Put an End to Terrorist Content on the Internet
August 6, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Countering Extremists on Social Media: Challenges for Strategic Communication and Content Moderation
September 18, 2023Extremist exploitation of social media platforms is an important regulatory question for civil society, government, and the private sector. Extremists exploit social media for a range of reasons—from spreading hateful narratives and propaganda to financing, recruitment, and sharing operational information. Policy responses to this question fit under two headings, strategic communication and content moderation. At ...