Contextual
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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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Regional Trends
While experts can point to overarching global trends in terrorism and violent extremism, we also know that there are significant regional and country-based variables in how these groups recruit, mobilize, propagandize, and coordinate attacks. There are also varying international trends in the types of platforms terrorists and violent extremists use in different parts of the world, their overarching aims and the ways their aims manifest online. GNET includes expert insights from academics and practitioners all over the world, feeding in the nuances and adversarial shifts they report on.
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11th June 2021Crime, Cryptocurrency, and El Salvador’s Big Bet on BitcoinDr. Alexis Henshaw
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01st June 2021Choosing Offline: Why India’s ‘Other’ Insurgencies Have not Gone DigitalKabir Teneja
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25th May 2021Mapping the Turkestan Islamic Party’s Online Propaganda NetworksMiron Lakomy
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24th May 2021Polarisation and the Pandemic: The Alternative für Deutschland’s Narration of COVID-19 on TwitterChamin Herath, Dr. Suraj Lakhani, Dr. Lella Nouri, Anna Pingen and Dr. Kamil Yilmaz
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10th May 2021Collaboration and Legislation: Confronting Online Violent Extremism from New ZealandCameron Sumpter
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29th April 2021QAnon Women in Politics Part Two: QAnon CareersBlyth Crawford and Marc-André Argentino
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28th April 2021QAnon Women in Politics Part One: The QAnon CandidatesBlyth Crawford and Marc-André Argentino
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21st April 2021Koo: India’s Latest Local Social Media PlatformPrithvi Iyer and Kabir Taneja