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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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Ideologically motivated violent groups and movements take different forms in different parts of the world. In a post-9/11 framework, and particularly since the rise of ISIS, most terrorist studies and counter-extremism work have focussed on Islamist extremist groups. However, we also see modern trends of groups associated with white supremacy and neo-Naziism, misogyny-based violent extremist groups often referred to as being part of the “incel” community, far-left groups, and neo-nationalist groups such as the Hindutva movement and Buddhist extremist groups in Asia. Across international far-right violent extremist trends we see an increase in violence inducing conspiracy theory networks, including new trends revolving around anti-vaccination movements and even anti-5G movements that have an effect on technology companies.
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01st August 2023An Introduction to Cults and Online Violent ExtremismInform (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements)
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24th July 2023Europe’s Thin Blue Line: How The Far-Right Imposes Its Ideology On The PoliceRicardo Parreira
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19th July 2023The ‘Critical’ and the ‘Sheep’: How Users of Far-Right Pages on Social Media See Themselves and the MainstreamAudrey Gagnon
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07th July 2023Tradwives: The Housewives Commodifying Right-Wing IdeologySophia Sykes and Dr Veronica Hopner
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30th June 2023How Gen Z is Changing Anti-Abortion Extremism Through ‘Queering’Zelly Martin and Inga Trauthig
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19th May 2023Co-opting Cottagecore: Pastoral Aesthetics in Reactionary and Extremist MovementsRobin O'Luanaigh
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16th May 2023The Allen, Texas Mass Shooting: An Examination of Misogyny, Anti-Asian Racism, and Internalised RacismMeili Criezis
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27th April 2023The Lineage of Violence: Saints Culture and Militant Accelerationist TerrorismJonathan Lewis, Joshua Molloy and Graham Macklin
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22nd March 2023Granola Nazis: Digital Traditionalism, the Folkish Movement and the Normalisation of the Far-RightCatherine Tebaldi