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By Samuel Olaniran In global discussions about online extremism, messaging apps such as WhatsApp often receive less attention than platforms like Facebook, X, or TikTok. Yet WhatsApp has become one of the most powerful political tools in the Global South. Its encrypted design, ubiquity, and integration into everyday social life make it a particularly attractive ...

Our Cyber Threats Research Centre colleagues couldn’t host an in-person TASM Conference this year, but instead organised a week of virtual events from 21 to 25 June 2021. This post is the first in a three-part series based on overviews of three of the virtual TASM panels. Read parts two and three. [Ed.] By August Dichter How do we ...