Contextual
Resources

Once a government or tech company develops a definition of terrorism or violent extremism, it can be difficult to know how to apply these definitions to the variety of ways that terrorism and violent extremism manifests internationally and across online spaces.

This section of the site aims to highlight contextual resources on themes related to applying definitions to the online space.  GIFCT funds the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) to bring forward actionable insights from experts and practitioners around the world to better inform and give context to tech companies, governments, practitioners and other stakeholders in this field. Insights are curated here under context-based themes.

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CT Efforts/Positive Interventions

Counterterrorism and counter-extremism campaigns and interventions online have evolved in recent years. These efforts aim to intervene in processes of radicalization, deplatform known extremist networks, redirect users to counterspeech content and positive alternatives, or direct users to resources that can help them disengage from violent extremist networks. International academics have been evolving the intervention space to discuss measurement and evaluation of these campaigns and programs, as well as looking to the future in assessing where interventions can evolve and innovate.

  • 13th August 2020
    Moving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online
    Dr. William Allchorn
  • 05th August 2020
    Facebook’s Disruption of the Boogaloo Network
    Jonathan Lewis
  • 31st July 2020
    From Fears to Conviction: Why Internet Shutdowns Don’t Work
    Prithvi Iyer
  • 30th July 2020
    Telegram’s anti-IS Campaign: Effectiveness, Perspectives, and Policy Suggestions
    Meili Criezis
  • 27th July 2020
    Counter-Narratives – Curse or Blessing?
    Manjana Sold, Hande Abay Gaspar
  • 06th July 2020
    #Hamas: Using Twitter to Gain Legitimacy or Incite Violence?
    Devorah Margolin
  • 04th July 2020
    Balancing Online Content Moderation and the Rule of Law
    Devorah Margolin, Jonathan Lewis, Andrew Mines
  • 02nd July 2020
    Banning Nazis or “Burning Books”? How Big Tech is Responding to Hate Speech, and the Implications
    Florence Keen
  • 22nd June 2020
    The YouTube Browsing Habits of a Lone-Actor Terrorist
    Dr. Rajan Basra

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