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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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The internet is not a homogenous space. There is significant variation in what platforms or tools online do, and subsequently an equally significant variation in how a platform might be exploited and the signal available to a platform to detect such exploitation. Experts continue to track the different types of platforms and tools being exploited by terrorists and violent extremist, looking at how and why a group or individual might use a product. While some platforms are more global in usage, others are specific to trends in regions or particular types of violent extremist groups.
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26th November 2022Online Platforms as Gendered Sites: Why We Should Pay Attention to Women-Only ForumsDr Alexandra Phelan, Dr Ayse Lokmanoglu and Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
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02nd November 2022Understanding Eco-Fascism: A Thematic Analysis of the Eco-Fascist Subculture on TelegramJoshua Molloy
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24th October 2022Extreme Right Radicalisation of Children via Online Gaming PlatformsDr. Daniel Koehler, Irina Jugl and Verena Fiebig
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03rd October 2022Extremist Influencers: Hyper- and Super-Posters in Extremist ForumsDr. Lewys Brace and Stephane Baele
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21st September 2022The Role of User Agency in the Algorithmic Amplification of Terrorist and Violent Extremist ContentEllie Rogers
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14th September 2022The Tate Storm: Why Banning Andrew Tate from Social Media Will Not Stop the ‘King of Toxic Masculinity’Abhinaya Murthy
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12th September 2022Analysing Terrorgram Publications: A New Digital ZineMatthew Kriner and Bjørn Ihler
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08th September 2022Right-Wing Extremists’ Use of the Internet: Emerging Trends in the Empirical LiteratureDr. Ryan Scrivens, Tiana Gaudette, Dr. Maura Conway and Dr. Thomas J. Holt
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