Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET)

The Women Behind the Screens: How Digital Evidence Enhances Our Understanding of Female Terrorism Offenders

Across the cases analysed, evidence showed the types of material women engaged with and sought out, the positions some women ...
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ISKP’s QR Codes and the Limits of Text-Based Monitoring

In the corpus examined in this Insight, the path can be traced across message text, images, documents, quick response (QR) ...
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No More Edits: The Fagersta Attack and The True Crime Community in Scandinavia

Those who understood the reference are largely part of a fandom known as the True Crime Community (TCC), a loose online ...
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Reconceptualising Makarenko’s Continuum in the Digital Age: The Case of Hezbollah

Separately, PCC-linked networks have used cryptocurrency to move proceeds from the United States to Brazil, while a Hezbollah ...
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Crime-Terror Nexus in Latin America

This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin America and the ...
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Neither Terrorist nor Criminal: How Hybrid Actors Fall Through Platform Moderators

As Byman and McCaleb note, this means content “would be permissible under most companies’ terms of service as long as the ...
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Blurred Lines: The Child Safety Gap in the Crime-Terror Nexus

This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin America and the implications/risks for tech moderation. Since 2021, major platforms have informally treated ...
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From Kyiv to Culiacán: How Mexican Cartels Are Adapting Drone Warfare Lessons from Ukraine

By analysing specific examples of cartel drone operations alongside emerging evidence of tactical learning from the Ukrainian ...
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“Create, Share, and Support”: How Pro-Islamic State (Is) Supporters Are Exploiting Capcut to Produce and Disseminate ‘No-Brand’ Propaganda Content Online

Since the advent of the Internet, extremists have exploited digital spaces to produce and spread their propaganda, creating functional online hubs for recruiting and radicalising new individuals. The ...
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Rituals of Recruitment: How Right-Wing Extremist Combat Sports Groups Mobilise Young Men Online and Offline

The growth of online fitness ecosystems with ties to right-wing extremism (RWE), alongside manosphere influencers who promote self-improvement through physical training and warrior-style identities, ...
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Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia: New Hybrid Group Threatens and Confounds European Security Landscape

On a busy London street in broad daylight, a heavyset man walking down a sidewalk brandished a knife and started slashing two Jewish men near a bus station until local security and police tackled him ...