Blurred Lines: Upscrolled And The Co-Option Of Legitimate Civic Discourse - VOX - Pol By Sam David UpScrolled, a social media platform for microblogging and short-form video sharing, experienced rapid growth in late January 2026 following disputes surrounding TikTok’s US operations. Th...

My latest out today for @vox-pol.bsky.social — “UpScrolled and The Co-Option Of Legitimate Civic Discourse”

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Rest in peace Garth Davies. He embodied the ethos of VOX-Pol: encouraging collaboration, championing early career researchers, and fostering community. Condolences to his family, friends, and @sfucriminology.bsky.social colleagues. www.sfu.ca/criminology/...

🚨Event Alert - The Only Way is Ethics: Next Gen Networks Unite🚨 Please Join Us on Mon 27 April, 5-6.30 BST For a Session Connecting #ECRs #PHDs With the Leading Networks Helping Navigate Ethically Complex, Sensitive Research 😍 Sign Up Here 👇👇
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Applications for the Catalyst Public Policy Champions Programme close this week on Friday, 20 February.

Many congrats to our @crexuio.bsky.social colleagues, with whom we've been pleased to collaborate on a number of events, on their 10-year anniversary and their ongoing commitment to researching the far-right.

Closing date for applications: 20 Feb.

Catalyst Public Policy Champions Programme Building policy leadership to counter technology-facilitated gender-based violence and violent extremism. Learn more and apply now!

VOX-Pol Institute (VPI) partnering with Christchurch Call Foundation & @hertieschool.bsky.social Exec Ed on new, fully funded programme equipping professionals to tackle tech-facilitated gender-based violence & its links to violent extremism. More info: www.hertie-school.org/en/short-pro...

Thanks for the recommendation JM! The Reassure report is useful too and there is a recent update on far right research from @antoniavaughan.bsky.social plus more at the excellent @vox-pol.bsky.social library!

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VOX-Pol Summer School 2026 - VOX - Pol 22/06/2026 - 26/06/2026 @ All Day - Swansea University is delighted to, once again, host the VOX-Pol Summer School in 2026. This week-long course will run from Monday 22nd to Friday 26th June 2026 (fr...

🚨 The deadline for applications for our VOX-Pol Summer School at Swansea University on 22-26 June, so immediately post #TASM Conf 2026, is tomorrow, Wednesday, 7 January.

If you are interested in attending, or know others that might be, you can find further info. at: voxpol.eu/events/vox-p...

VOX-Pol Summer School 2026: Call for Participants - VOX - Pol Join the VOX-Pol Summer School 2026 at Swansea University for a week of expert-led training on online extremism and terrorism.

Reminder that the deadline for applications for our VOX-Pol Summer School at Swansea University on 22-26 June is just two days’ away: Wednesday, 7 January.

If you are interested in attending, or know others that might be, you can find further information at voxpol.eu/vox-pol-summ....

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The Latest Far-Right Rift: Rejecting 'Third Worldism' - VOX - Pol Constantin von Hoffmeister’s removal from Arktos reveals a far-right shift away from Third Worldism and multipolarity toward Western chauvinism.

A recent piece I wrote for @vox-pol.bsky.social on an important ideological shift at Arktos—the leading publisher of New Right, Eurasian, and identitarian thought—following the removal of its editor-in-chief.

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Clickbait Climate and the Political Economy of Planetary Vibes: How Ecofascism Thrives in the Digital Substrate - VOX - Pol How ecofascist narratives spread on mainstream social media and how platform economics amplify and normalise them.

My piece for @vox-pol.bsky.social which came from their excellent Next Gen conference in September on ecofascism and the political economy of social media

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#AcademicSky #PhDSky

With Miron Lakomy presenting and chaired by @moign.bsky.social:

🚨 VOX-Pol Online Seminar taking place this evening, Wednesday, 3 December, 17:00 GMT/16:00 Central European Time.

Email us for the link to join.

More info here: lnkd.in/gZ_-WjM4

🎙️My report for @vox-pol.bsky.social "Negotiating Responses to Online Terrorism Threats in the EU: State-Platform Diplomacy 2015-2019" is finally out !

Read it here ➡️ voxpol.eu/wp-content/u...

& replay the launch event here ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSfo...

We’re delighted to be in Melbourne supporting the 2025 Avert International Research Symposium on the theme ‘Signal or noise? Navigating the changing nature of violent extremism online.’ More info at www.avert.net.au/2025-symposium

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If you’re interested in how these strategies play out within the radical right specifically, you can read more in a blog post Nuria & I co-authored for @vox-pol.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/38cf8zux

#langsky #forensiclinguistics #cybercrime #onlineradicalisation #onlineextremism #radicalright

Our latest report is now freely accessible online at
voxpol.eu/wp-content/u.... In it, Marguerite Borelli analyses public-private relations between the European
(in particular, French) authorities and Facebook, Google (YouTube) and Twitter on the subject of terrorist usage of social media 2015-2019.

Just kicked off.

ICYMI: I've had the pleasure of sharing my research on the @vox-pol.bsky.social blog.

The post offers a snapshot of the book I’m writing with Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, which explores how radical right groups use language to construct political identities.

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#langsky #polsky

Our latest report launches online next Monday, 17 Nov., at 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET, with @s-macdonald.bsky.social, ‪Valère Ndior, Gavin Sullivan, and report author Marguerite Borelli. Join us! More info at: voxpol.eu/events/new-v...
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Is it ok to talk to extremists? Navigating gender and avoiding legitimisation in ethnography with the far right - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism with Elizabeth Pearson, Royal Holloway, University of London

Some followers may wish to join tomorrow's @crexuio.bsky.social webinar on the challenges of using an empathetic methodology to interview right-wing extremists, which will feature @vox-pol.bsky.social's @lizzypearson.bsky.social.

More info. at: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

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Thanks to all those who attended last evening's launch of our latest report, authored by @antoniavaughan.bsky.social and titled 'Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia: Current Practices and Constraints,' which is now available #openaccess on our website at voxpol.eu/new-vox-pol-...
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We're launching our latest report on researching the far-right at 6pm UK/1pm US east coast time today.

The webinar will be chaired by @lizzypearson.bsky.social & feature author @antoniavaughan.bsky.social & discussant @audreygagnon.bsky.social.

More info.: voxpol.eu/events/new-v...

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New VOX-Pol Report Online Launch - VOX - Pol 09/10/2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - VOX-Pol is publishing a new report titled Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia: Current Practices and Constraints by Dr Antonia Vaughan on Thursday 9 October 2...

Looking forward to discussing how to research the far right safely in academia at the @vox-pol.bsky.social report launch. The report is by @antoniavaughan.bsky.social, with the event hosted by @lizzypearson.bsky.social

Sara, a slim, white woman with long light brown hair, stands behind a desk at the front of a lecture theatre. The slide behind her reads "The Whys, Ecofascism and the Overton Window, Normalisation / securitisation, Social media and democracy, Policy impacts - such as ecobordering, Policy propositions - online moderation / community cohesion budgets" with a quote at the bottom which reads "Playing with fear is like playing with fire. You cannot be sure exactly where it will spread", Betsy Hartmann, 2018. The backs of audience members heads are also visible.

Wonderful to be part of the @vox-pol.bsky.social Next Gen Conference in Prague last week - huge thanks to Johnathan Collins for all the organising - it was great to catch up with with colleagues, meet new ones and present my work on ecofascism.

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New VOX-Pol Report Online Launch - VOX - Pol 09/10/2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - VOX-Pol is publishing a new report titled Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia: Current Practices and Constraints by Dr Antonia Vaughan on Thursday 9 October 2...

Tomorrow 9 October @vox-pol.bsky.social launches this excellent new report by @antoniavaughan.bsky.social Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia.

I'm chairing, @audreygagnon.bsky.social is discussing. Do come along!

Sign up below. Webinar - 9 October - 6pm BST 🕸️

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🔥 Extremists move fast - Policy often lags
Colleagues at VPI are hosting a workshop that confronts the gap, incl. a simulation where every call has intended & unintended consequences
📍 Munich, 8-9 Oct
🔗 Further info & register by 3 Oct: lnkd.in/efmKBNb9
👥 Discount if bringing a colleague - email VPI

C-REX & VOX-Pol PhD Summer School: The Importance of Visiting Memorial Sites for Researchers - VOX - Pol Participants visited the 22 July memorial sites, honoring victims of the Oslo and Utøya attacks by a far-right extremist radicalized online.

Delighted to Have Co-Written This Blog with the Wonderful
#NicolaMathieson and @audreygagnon.bsky.social
Based on the Joint @crexuio.bsky.social @vox-pol.bsky.social Summer School Visits to Memorial
Sites for the July 22 Attacks. Was Such an AMAZING Teaching Moment 👇👇
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