Digital & Online Extremism
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Antisemitism and Violent Extremism in Europe: An Analysis of Trends and Incidents
Since the coordinated terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas against Israel on 7 October 2023 and the subsequent war in Gaza, European …
Engineering the Virtual Caliphate: Islamic State's Exploitation of Gen-Z Culture
This article examines how the Islamic State has adapted to target Gen-Z youth through digital platforms following its 2018 territorial defeat, constructing …
Gendered identities, media narratives, and violent extremism in Kenya: Rethinking peacebu…
Kenya's struggle with violent extremism is shaped not only by security dynamics but by the narratives through which communities interpret identity, harm, …
The Feed That Shapes Us: Extremism and Adolescence in the Age of Algorithms
This Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Addressing Youth Radicalization and Mobilization (AYRM). GIFCT Working Groups bring together …
Ethical Conundrums: Hacked Data in the Study of Far-Right Violent Extremism
Ethical conduct in digital research is full of grey areas. Disciplinary, institutional and individual norms and conventions developed to support research are …
Reading Between the Lines: The Importance of Human Moderators for Online Implicit Extremi…
This analysis examines implicit extremist content—harmful messages conveyed through coded language, irony, or cultural references—which evades detection by automated systems and corrodes …
Fury and Void: Legal Pathways to Counter 764
In June 2025, a young man was arrested in Germany after an alert from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding an …
Right- and Left-Wing Violent Extremist Abuse of Digital Technologies in the Global South
This report, jointly published by UNICRI and VOX-Pol, examines digital technology abuse by right- and left-wing violent extremists in South America, Africa, …
Children, Young People and the Emerging Terrorism Threat Landscape
This paper examines the concerning rise in children and young people's involvement in violent extremism across Five Eyes nations, arguing that ideology-centric …
Predicting the Descent into Extremism and Terrorism
This paper proposes an approach for automatically analysing and tracking statements in material gathered online and detecting whether the authors of the …
Regulation of Digital Surveillance and the Impact on Civil Society in Africa: Experiences…
This research report examines the regulation of digital surveillance in Kenya and its human rights impacts on civil society actors, providing a …
Digital P/CVE for first-line practitioners
On 22-23 July 2025, the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation organised in Warsaw the first Strategic Communications training on Digital …