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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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17th July 2020The Cultivated Extremist? How the Identitarian Movement Frames its IdeologyLinda Schlegel
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10th July 2020IS “Advisers”: How Online Jihadists Guided European Volunteers to SyriaDr. Hugo Micheron
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06th July 2020#Hamas: Using Twitter to Gain Legitimacy or Incite Violence?Devorah Margolin
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03rd July 2020From 4G to Languages: The Developing Online Jihadist Propaganda Network in IndiaKabir Taneja
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02nd July 2020Banning Nazis or “Burning Books”? How Big Tech is Responding to Hate Speech, and the ImplicationsFlorence Keen