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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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Tactical Exploitation of Online Services
Online terrorism and violent extremism comes in many forms and platforms are equally exploited in a variety of ways. Terrorist and violent extremist groups and individuals, like average users, use a mixture of platforms to further their aims. This cross-platform approach facilitates in storing content, holding private or confidential conversations, e-commerce for buying and selling goods as well as fundraising, recruitment, and the amplification of propaganda and messaging to the public. These signals, trends and adversarial shifts around this exploitation are highlighted by global experts.
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15th July 2024All the World’s a Stage: How Predictive Programming Crafts Far-Right X Users’ WorldviewMason Krusch
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04th July 2024The Digital Weaponry of Radicalisation: AI and the Recruitment NexuMariam Shah
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24th June 2024"Substitution”: Extremists’ New Form of Implicit Hate Speech to Avoid DetectionMarten Risius, Morteza Namvar, Saeed Akhlaghpour and Hetiao (Slim) Xie
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10th June 2024Gaming the System: The Use of Gaming-Adjacent Communication, Game and Mod Platforms by Extremist ActorsConstantin Winkler and Lars Wiegold
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05th June 2024More than Sports: Building Resilience against Extremism in EsportsEliot Oreskovic
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09th May 2024AI-Powered Jihadist News Broadcasts: A New Trend In Pro-IS Propaganda Production?Federico Borgonovo, Alessandro Bolpagni and Silvano Rizieri Lucini
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01st May 2024Cash for Incitement: The Monetisation of Digital Hate in GermanyPablo Jost and Harald Sick
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20th March 2024‘It’s Over! White People are Finished’: Accelerationist Memes using Generative AI on 4chan’s ‘/pol‘Joshua Bowes