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PhD Candidate in Information Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the Brazilian Institute of Information Science and Technology (IBICT). His research focuses on online disinformation ecosystems in Brazil, particularly the discrediting of science, socio-environmental conspiracies, and their intersections with extremism. He is a researcher and project coordinator at NetLab, UFRJ’s ...

Stefan Meingast is Chairman and Managing Director of SCENOR, a non-profit and independent research organisation in Austria. His research addresses violent extremism, terrorism, radicalisation, and conspiracy myths, with a particular focus on digital communication environments. He has coordinated numerous projects, for instance examining right-wing extremist networks and hate speech across youth-oriented platforms, investigated religiously motivated ...

Marguerite Borelli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the CNRS Center for Internet and Society (CIS) in Paris, where she currently works on the ClaimSov Open Research Area (ORA) project focusing on digital sovereignty. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2025, focused on the governance of terrorist content on social media, with an emphasis on the involvement ...

Joshua Farrell-Molloy is a PhD student at the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University. His doctoral project focuses on digital subcultures and is part of the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie ‘VORTEX’ Doctoral Network, which focuses on developing new evidence-based innovative strategies to counter and prevent ideological and behavioural radicalisation. He holds an MA in ...

Allysa Czerwinsky (she/her) is a Research Fellow in AI Trust and Security at the University of Manchester. Her research sits at the intersections of technology, harm, and violence, with a specific focus on male supremacist and extremist groups operating in the online sphere, identity-based harm, and gender-based violence. Alongside this, she’s interested in ethical approaches ...

Kate Tomkins is a Doctoral researcher of Criminology at the University of Southampton. Her research examines the dynamics of extremism and accelerationism, employing a multi-methodological approach that incorporates network analysis and advanced digital semiotic content analysis through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. With an emphasis on the relationships between digital semiotics, social identity ...

Maik Fielitz is a social scientist and conflict researcher. He is currently head of the research unit on right-wing extremism and digitalisation at the Jena Institute for Democracy and Civil Society and co-head of research at the German Federal Working Group against Online Hate as well as co-editor of the online magazine Machine Against the ...

Sean McCafferty is a Marie Curie Doctoral Fellow at Metropolitan University Prague as part of the EU-GLOCTER project and a member of the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) at Swansea University. His research focuses on open-source intelligence (OSINT), terrorism, propaganda, and technology. He is a graduate from the Erasmus Mundus International Master’s in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies (IMSISS) jointly ...

Debbie Ging is Professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communications at Dublin City University and Director of the DCU Institute for Research on Genders and Sexualities. She teaches and researches on gender, sexuality and digital media, with a focus on digital hate, online anti-feminist men’s rights politics, the incel subculture and radicalisation ...

David Wells is a global security consultant, an Honorary Research Associate at Swansea University’s Cyber Threat’s Research Centre, and a non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute. His work focuses on emerging terrorism and counter-terrorism challenges, including terrorism and technology, AI and the intersection between terrorism and climate change. Between 2017 and 2022, he was ...