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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17th June 2022‘Mujahideen in the West’: Al-Qaeda’s Newest Attack-Inciting MagazineRueben Dass and Jasminder Singh
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13th June 2022The Rise of Narco-Terrorism in the Age of the InternetDr. Chamila Liyanage
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25th April 2022‘Gender Ideology’ and the Intersectional Politics of the Far-Right in Latin AmericaPaulo Ravecca
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14th April 2022How the European Far Right is Using Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine to Radicalise its AudienceClaire Burchett and James Barth
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07th April 2022Zelenskyy, ‘Denazification’ and the Redirection of Holocaust VictimhoodHannah Rose
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05th April 2022From Orange to Red: An Assessment of the Dark MAGA Trend in Far-Right Online SpacesHampton Stall and Daniel Grober
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14th March 2022“Victims of the Holocaust”: The ‘Freedom Convoy’ Subreddits as Spaces for Antisemitism and Far-Right RadicalisationBàrbara Molas