Insights
- Rachel Kowert
The Radicalisation of Digital Playgrounds: The Need for Multistakeholder Dialogue
Introduction The potential nexus between gaming and radicalisation into extremism has become a hot topic…
- Osama Ahmad
Unveiling Terrorist Influence: The Case of Pakistan’s 2024 General Elections
Introduction Elections in fragile democracies are often the targets of terrorist exploitation. Notably, general elections…
- Francis Okpaleke
Eyes in the Sky: The Innovation Dilemma of Drone Proliferation among Violent Non-State Actors in the Sahel
Introduction The Sahel, with its vast geographical expanse and porous borders, has become a hub…
- Saddiq Basha
The Creeping Influence of the Extreme Right’s Meme Subculture in Southeast Asia’s TikTok Community
Introduction In a GNET Insight from November 2023, Jonathan Sarwono identified the presence of an…
- Meili Criezis
The Moscow Terrorist Attack: Pro-Islamic State Narratives and their Wider Implications
Introduction On 22 March 2024, four gunmen entered Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia and…
- Sajid Aziz
Virtual Battlegrounds: Understanding the Online Campaign of Baloch Separatist Groups in Pakistan
Background Heavy breathing fills the audio as the head-mounted camera captures a gun, apparently an…
- Kris McGuffie
Preventing Extremist Violence Using Existing Content Moderation Tools
Kris McGuffie is a member of the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN). The EGRN…
- Ella Busch
The Deepfake Threat to the 2024 US Presidential Election
Introduction As the 2024 US election campaign ramps up, artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes are…
- Amin Mekacher
Preparing for the Boogaloo: How Far-Right Communities Rallied on Discord for the Unite the Right Rally
Introduction In August 2017, Charlottesville, Virginia, had its streets swarmed by white nationalists, klansmen and…
- Yosua Praditya
The COVID-19 Pandemic Exploited by Extremists: A Comparative Analysis of Indonesia and Germany
Introduction COVID-19 social restrictions provided fertile ground for extremists around the world. During lockdown, as…
- Joshua Bowes
‘It’s Over! White People are Finished’: Accelerationist Memes using Generative AI on 4chan’s ‘/pol‘
Content Warning: this Insight contains antisemitic, racist and hateful imagery and language. Introduction Contemporary research…
- Paola Testa
CLASSIFIED 1948/2024: What Israeli AI Implementation Teaches Us About the Warfare of Tomorrow
Introduction Israel has become one of the most technologically advanced and AI-driven countries in the…