Our understanding of how the Internet has fostered terrorist activism is conditioned by an important bias that affects the robustness of our conclusions: the assumption that the Internet offers a series of traits that intrinsically aid the attainment of the goals of terrorist groups. Keep Reading
In recent months, several new boogaloo pages have emerged on Facebook, hiding among libertarian groups and pages that also share memes advocating for violence. Keep Reading
Among the first things the Camp Fire destroyed in Paradise were key cell phone towers and relay stations. Keep Reading
The Australian parliament’s Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security is currently holding an inquiry into extremist movements and radicalism in Australia. Keep Reading
Islamic State took the lead by temporarily migrating to TamTam, Hoop, Conversation, Riot, and other messaging applications. However, following deletions and bans on these platforms, Islamic State media channels soon returned to Telegram. Keep Reading
ADL has documented disturbing antisemitism on multiple platforms -- from Facebook and Twitter to TikTok and Instagram – with messages including explicit praise for Hitler, promoting tropes about Jewish control and demonizing all Jews. Keep Reading
The DHS Office of Inspector General review of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data indicated that from January 1, 2016, through June 30, 2019, 83 CBP employees violated CBP policies and guidance by posting or commenting within various social media platforms including I’m 10-15. Keep Reading
Stop arguing about “facts” and reframe discussions around positive narratives. What narratives best describe how the United States can best move forward? Learn from the past but focus attention and energy on the future. Keep Reading
The Department of Homeland Security has begun implementing a strategy to gather and analyze intelligence about security threats from public social media posts, DHS officials said. Keep Reading
In celebration of National Superhero Day, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is releasing its second graphic novel in the Resilience Series to educate the public on the dangers and risks associated with dis- and misinformation campaigns. Keep Reading
Overlooked in the broad discussion about election interference efforts has been the payload delivered by the Kremlin’s disinformation machine—the messages Putin’s minions seek to disseminate inside America and where those messages are generated. Keep Reading
Given that many in the terrorism and violent extremism research community have voiced concerns about how extremist and dangerous actors have exploited social media and messaging platforms, it’s interesting to note that a clear majority of the respondents have not reported dangerous actors. Keep Reading
Phishing attacks are targeting out-of-work users on LinkedIn, creating lures using job titles scraped from the targeted workers' profiles in an attempt to convince them to open and execute different malicious files or links. Keep Reading
A major cache of personal data for more than 500 million Facebook users has been published on hacking forums, in one of the biggest lapses of data protection for the social network so far. Keep Reading
Terror group slams videos made "insulting, mocking and ridiculing people and then sharing those videos on YouTube, Facebook etc where thousands more idiotic men and women view it and laugh at it." Keep Reading
The would-be terrorist's plans were chilling, written out in detail alongside neo-Nazi tropes in his manifesto. The list of targets included post offices, pubs, schools and banks (for "obvious reasons," he wrote). Keep Reading
Before Jan. 6, the run-ins Bruno Cua, 18, had had with police in his small town of Milton, Ga., were mostly of the scofflaw variety. Keep Reading
In the wake of the storming of the US capitol on 6 January, we saw unprecedented responses by tech companies to regulate and control the extremist content on their platforms. Keep Reading
Not only are conspiracy theories more accessible, but there is now evidence that links the content on these popular online platforms to violent and extremist acts. Keep Reading
38 percent of recommendations shown on videos from alternative channels and 29 percent of recommendations shown on videos from extremist channels were to additional videos of the same type. Keep Reading