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“Dead society”: Tracing the Online Dimension of a Militant Accelerationist-Inspired Attack in Turkey
September 4, 2024By Arthur Bradley An assailant injured at least five people with a knife in a tea garden in Sehit Rustem Demirbas Park, Eskisehir, northwestern Turkey, on 12 August. Police apprehended the 18-year-old suspect within a few minutes of the violence starting. He was dressed in camouflage trousers and an assault vest, helmet, goggles and skull mask, and also reportedly carried ...
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Off the Richter Scale: Tracking Misinformation in the Aftermath of the Kahramanmaras Earthquake – The Failing of Twitter’s Blue Tick Policy
July 12, 2023By Ashton Kingdon & Briony Gray The cost of misinformation can be deadly during crisis. Undermining public trust, emergency response effectiveness and potentially life-saving activities, misinformation has become an increasing trend in the aftermath of natural disasters that has spread like wildfire across a global audience. The expansion in the use of intelligence systems has ...