Violence
Gore and Violent Extremism: An explorative analysis of the use of gore websites for hosting and sharing extremist and terrorist content
July 9, 2025Gore-related websites enable the hosting and sharing of illegal videos, including those produced by proscribed terrorist entities. The websites are numerous, free to access, provide no user or child safety features, and have seen a growth in visitor numbers in recent years due to ongoing conflicts. Most gore-related websites offer download and social media share ...
Misogynistic Pathways to Radicalisation: Recommended Measures for Platforms to Assess and Mitigate Online Gender-Based Violence
December 4, 2024This paper reviews online gender-based violence (OGBV) as existing within a continuum of (on- and offline) violence, emphasising the connections with different extremist ideologies, including the dissemination of terrorist and violent extremist content (TVEC). It aims to prioritise a gender perspective in responding to TVEC so that social media platforms can better intervene in and ...
Hamas Telegram in the Immediate Wake of Their 7 October Terrorist Attack(s): Part 2 – Propaganda content
August 12, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Hamas Telegram in the Immediate Wake of Their 7 October Terrorist Attack(s): Part 1 – Activity Levels
August 12, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Examining Online Indicators of Extremism Among Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists
July 25, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Differentiating Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists
July 25, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
‘News overload’: how a constant stream of violent images affects your brain
May 21, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Violence begetting violence: An examination of extremist content on deep Web social networks
September 18, 2023Several incidents of mass violence in 2019 were preceded by manifestoes posted to deep Web social media sites by their perpetrators. These sites, most notably 4chan and 8chan, are buried in the deep Web, away from the neutralizing effects of broad public discourse. Many of the posts to these sites reference earlier extremist incidents, and ...
A Safe Space to Hate: White Supremacist Mobilisation on Telegram
September 18, 2023The briefing highlights how through its limited content moderation policies Telegram has become a safe space for white supremacists to share and discuss a range of explicit extremist material. Furthermore, it shows that through the many of these Telegram communities have become permissive environments where overt calls for violence and support for terrorism is widespread. ...