Awaiting the EU's #eEvidence Regulation and Directive, due to take effect in August, Isabella Pirlogea analyses law enforcement capacity to access electronic evidence, cooperation with service providers, and the challenges this new framework will address.
Based on findings from a recent study, Dr William Allchorn and Dr Elisa Orofino highlight that gaming ecosystems can serve as “gateway social spaces” where individuals encounter ideological narratives and gradually form identities aligned with broader extremist milieus.
In response to a recent memefication trend, Nauval El Ghifari analyses how Indonesian TikTok accounts glorify prominent Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) figures through emotionally engaging digital content using a video-editing style known locally as “Jedag Jedug”.
Building on a December investigation in #Spain, Urszula Mrozowska examines The Base’s online operations. By identifying narratives and the group's role in promoting radicalisation, this Insight highlights what distinguishes The Base from other far-right movements in discourse, goals and approach.
🗓️ We are thrilled to announce GNET's Sixth Annual Conference on 27th May 2026!
Our theme this year: 'Threats in Focus: Re-Examining Terrorism and Violent Extremism at the Tech Frontier.'
Participants may join in person or virtually.
For panel information and to register, visit the link below ⬇️
Urszula Mrozowska examines how Francoist-related content is being reintroduced on Spanish social media, analysing the narratives, formats, and trends involved, as well as their implications for radicalisation among far-right extremist groups in #Spain.
🗓️ Join GNET at our next webinar w/ @isdglobal.bsky.social on Tuesday, 21st April at 16:00 BST/11:00 EDT.
It will feature a discussion highlighting key considerations for P/CVE practitioners working to understand the spread of online subcultures of nihilistic violence.
Details and registration ⤵️
Today, Adam Rousselle argues that extremist propaganda ecosystems function as trust infrastructures that enable decentralised terrorist financing systems to operate outside formal financial institutions.
In today’s Insight, @imtiazbaloch.bsky.social examines the BLA’s propaganda strategy, focusing on its portrayal of female suicide attackers on TikTok. The analysis explores the group’s use of AI-generated images, while assessing narrative representations of female participants.
Muskan Sangwan examines how the playbook, “Operation Ghost Protocol: The 2026 Telegram Hardening Manual,” signals the maturation of operational security thinking within Islamic State-supporter ecosystems, and what it means for platforms tackling extremist activity online.
Today, Eleonora Ristuccia and Grazia Ludovica Giardini examine pro-Islamic State content shared by supporters active across #UpScrolled, and offer insight into how such content spreads across platforms.
Amid the recent upsurge in traffic garnered by UpScrolled, @kjallen.bsky.social focuses on the upload of right-wing accelerationist content on the platform, analysing how the extent and severity of the content highlight critical failures in moderating violent extremist discourse.
A recent announcement from Al Qaeda’s Cyber Jihad Movement (CJM) signals tactical convergence between actors in cyberspace. Today, Daria Alexe explores Iran’s wartime cyber landscape and AI’s growing role, offering PCVE and counterterrorism recommendations focused on function-based detection.
Understanding a terrorist group’s innovation calculus is crucial for developing countermeasures. In his latest Insight, Rueben Dass examines key factors shaping terrorist groups’ decisions to pursue particular technological innovations, with drone adoption as the primary case study.
Against the backdrop of discussions on Canada designating 764 as a terrorist organisation, Tanya Mehra evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of applying this label to such networks and offers practical recommendations for responding to the growing threat.
Mapping the intersection of play, identity, and ideology, María Remiro Soriano and Miguel Gómez Catalán examine how extremist aesthetics and narratives inspired by jihadist groups are produced, circulated, and normalised within digital communities hosted on Discord.
In a critical assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of using AI to screen extremist content in Canada, Arunita Das and Cole Hennig consider how proposed legislation, such as #BillC-63, shapes efforts to address extremist material online.
Today, Urszula Mrozowska examines the narratives and communication strategies of Núcleo Nacional (National Core), a significant new actor in Spain’s white supremacist landscape. Núcleo Nacional's digital activity has gained significant visibility in #Spain amid growing hostility towards immigrants.
In a discussion on the implications of digital communication platforms for counterterrorism efforts, Orisa Shinta and Didik Novi Rahmanto analyse how WhatsApp has potentially played a role in extremist grooming among children in Indonesia.
Silvano Rizieri Lucini, Alessandra Pugnana, and Grazia Ludovica Giardini examine how generative AI tools like Viggle AI are used to create youth-focused extremist propaganda, highlighting the online glorification of violence in the extreme right, the True Crime Community, and Salafi-Jihadi circles.
Drawing on open-source intelligence, Nurrisha Ismail explores how nasheeds – Islamic hymns – are exploited by violent extremist actors, and rendered linguistically accessible by regional pro-Islamic State (IS) supporters as a tool for building radical online communities in Southeast Asia.
In retrospect on the Bondi Beach attack in December 2025 targeting members of the Jewish community, Dr. Margareta Wetchy and Dr. Omar Mohammed examine two core narratives drawn from selected Arabic-language content on X and TikTok.
New research from the RadiGaMe project examines accelerationist right-wing communication on Telegram.
Drawing on Project RadiGaMe, @uschwertberger.bsky.social, Simon Greipl, and @dianarieger.bsky.social examine how far-right groups on Telegram function as social systems.
📢 For more on this topic: Join GNET & RadiGaMe tomorrow (19 Feb, 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EST) for a webinar - last reminder!
It will be presented at the upcoming GIFCT 2025 Working Groups Launch Event Webinar tomorrow, Wednesday, February 18th, at 17:00 GMT/12:00 PM EST.
Authored by @isdglobal.bsky.social and published in collaboration with @gifct.bsky.social, this policy paper provides an overview of the threat landscape posed by violent nihilistic communities online and outlines implications for platform measures to protect users effectively.
📕 GNET is thrilled to share the publication of a new policy paper, 'Beyond Extremism: Platform Responses to Online Subcultures of Nihilistic Violence.'
Today, Alessandro Bolpagni and Grazia Ludovica Giardini examine the persistent presence of Islamic State propaganda on Pinterest, and the need for more effective platform-level counter-strategies.
🗓️ We are less than a week away from our next webinar, 'Beyond the Channel: Mapping Individual Risk and Collective Dynamics in Far-Right Radicalisation on Telegram.'
Join us on Thursday, 19th February at 16:00 GMT/11:00 EST by registering at the link below. 💻
