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By Alastair Reed, Jack Springett-Gilling and Ellie Rogers  This post is a lightly edited excerpt from “Online P/CVE Interventions,” a chapter in the just-published Routledge Handbook of Online Violent Extremism.  Over the past decade and more, as terrorist and violent extremist actors have become increasingly adept at exploiting the internet for radicalisation and recruitment, policymakers ...

By Maisie Draper A news story that falsely claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine caused the death of an American doctor was the most viewed article on Facebook in the US for the first three months of 2021. Instead of going public about the platform promoting such misinformation, Facebook held back on publishing the report until The ...