Year in Review: 2023 Trends in Terrorist and Violent Extremist Use of the Internet and the Online Counterterrorism Response

Year in Review: 2023 Trends in Terrorist and Violent Extremist Use of the Internet and the Online Counterterrorism Response
24 October 2023 GIFCT
13th Dec 2023

Year in Review: 2023 Trends in Terrorist and Violent Extremist Use of the Internet and the Online Counterterrorism Response

This webinar will examine the past year’s principal trends in terrorist exploitation of the internet and online counterterrorism responses.

Organised by Tech Against Terrorism and Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT).

This e-Learning Webinar is suitable for:

  • Tech professionals interested in learning about best practice in developing countermeasures to the evolving terrorist and violent extremist threat online.
  • Government or law enforcement officials interested in how the online terrorist and violent extremist threat landscape has evolved in 2023, and how this has influenced changes in tech sector responses and regulatory approaches.
  • Researchers or civil society representatives who would like to learn more about the trends in terrorist and violent extremist use of the internet in 2023, how governments are proposing to tackle it, and what the implications might be for digital rights.

In this final webinar of the 2023 Tech Against Terrorism & GIFCT e-Learning series, we will take an in-depth look into the trends of the online terrorism and counterterrorism landscape over 2023.

We will discuss the trends, tactics, techniques, and procedures used by online terrorist and violent extremist actors and how these strategies have evolved over the past year. Together with a panel of experts, we will discuss how counterterrorism legislation and online regulation have developed in response to the problem. We will also gain insight into how the tech sector is responding to the evolving threat of online terrorist and violent extremist actors. We will discuss the various challenges of responding to fast and relentless changes in the threat landscape in a manner which does not infringe the fundamental rights of users.

This webinar session will finish with a Q&A session which is open to all attendees.

More information about the speakers and the agenda will be shared soon.

If you would like to sign up to this free webinar, please register with your institutionally affiliated email address – note that registration does not guarantee participation, and access to this webinar will be limited. This webinar will be held under Chatham House rules.

About our webinar series

These free webinar sessions are suitable both for specialists in the field and for those interested in learning more about terrorist use of technology and the internet more widely – and how to counter it.

Participants will have the opportunity to engage directly with a wide range of experts and explore practical ways to support smaller tech companies in tackling the terrorist use of the internet whilst respecting human rights. Over the course of the webinar series, Tech Against Terrorism and the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) will convene some of the industry’s leading counter terrorism experts and practitioners, policy researchers, and tech company representatives.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected].