The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) has released a new report, Emergent Technologies and Extremists: The DWeb as a New Internet Reality? This report focuses on the pros and cons of the Decentralised Web (DWeb) in regards to right‑wing extremists and the Islamic State (IS) and their likelihood...
The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) recently published the report – The Role of Violent Conspiratorial Narratives in Violent and Non-Violent Extreme Right Manifestos Online, 2015-2020. While there now exists an academic consensus stressing the importance of extremist words that sharply delineate, reify and polarise in‑ and out‑group...
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), founded in 2006, investigates and responds to the rise of polarization and extremism around the world. This paper focuses on the development of conspiracy theories, misinformation, and the resulting violent consequences of these threats, with concentrated focus on the role that right-wing extremism plays...
As mainstream social media companies have increased their scrutiny and moderation of right-wing extremist (RWE) content and groups, there’s been a move to alternative online content platforms. There’s also growing concern about right-wing extremism in Australia, and about how this shift has diversified the mechanisms used to fundraise by RWE...
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue has released Disinformation Overdose: A Study of the Crisis of Trust Among Vaccine Sceptics and Anti-Vaxxers, a report detailing the spread of disinformation as it pertains to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) and vaccination in Germany. While anti-vaxxers account for a very small portion of the...
The threat of the extreme right-wing (XRW) is rising and expanding globally, according to a new report released by the Counter Extremism Project. Titled Violent Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism – Transnational Connectivity, Definitions, Incidents, Structures and Countermeasures, the study analyses the XRW threat and “its growing transnational connectivity (i.e., extending...
With the election just around the corner, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has released a new report titled Standing by: Right-Wing Militia Groups & the US Election. In this study, ACLED along with MilitiaWatch map out right-wing militia activity across the United States and identify which...
