My latest with @gnetresearch.bsky.social exploring the rapid growth of UpScrolled and the early signals of far-right accelerationist content taking root on the platform.
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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.
Drawing on my research about the prospect of ‘chatbot radicalisation’ and the ‘terrorist chatbot’ for @gnetresearch.bsky.social, I did an interview with Jonathan Gibson at The Dispatch (@thedispatchmedia.bsky.social) for his fascinating story on the subject.
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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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My second article on chatbot radicalisation with @gnetresearch.bsky.social: “A sufficiently unstable individual may find in a model’s sycophancy a form of proof, an artificial Sancho Panza validating whatever fantasy they bring to it”.
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Today, @kjallen.bsky.social continues his exploration of the terrorist chatbot with a second Insight, looking specifically at youth, radicalisation, and P/CVE guardrails that need to be in place.
Read his first Insight on the subject ➡️ gnet-research.org/2025/12/05/c...
I published a piece earlier this month with @gnetresearch.bsky.social. This Insight interrogates the evidentiary basis for the so-called “terrorist chatbot”, its likelihood, and the potential implications. Check it out here:
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Today, @kjallen.bsky.social examines the evidentiary basis for the terrorist #chatbot, its likelihood, and potential implications in light of the UK Government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation's annual report to Parliament.
Recently published a piece with @e-international.bsky.social about misdirected efforts to blame video games for the bombing of a school in Jakarta earlier this month.
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I published a new Insight with @gnetresearch.bsky.social focused on Arma 3, a commercially available military simulation (Milsim) released by Czech video game developer Bohemia Interactive. Have a read here:
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Community-building is an intrinsic and highly positive feature of games like #Arma. Yet, hateful or extremist actors can lead it astray, in conjunction with the capacity to modify or ‘mod’ the game.
@kjallen.bsky.social explores the Arma gaming series and these associated challenges.
The first forum on our book! Grateful to the reviewers for their engagements on Trumpism, civilizationism, feminism, managerialism, neoliberalism and more journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My article on Jules Verne's technocratic worldmaking is now part of the latest @risjnl.bsky.social issue, alongside a range of really exciting contributions – check out the volume below 👇 #HistIR
I recently contributed a review essay to a forum in New Perspectives on the newly released book ‘World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order’. Check out the forum here:
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You know how the far-right is pretty big right now? Well I've got a 🚨New Publication🚨 on interpreting far-right ideologies!
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in
@ejir.bsky.social
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"They will call me a terrorist, they will call me an extremist: I am neither. I am but a gardener tending to the great garden of England."
An excellent dispatch on a white supremacist terrorist attack in England by Duncan Gardham in @gnetresearch.bsky.social. gnet-research.org/2025/04/15/a...
NEW ARTICLE:
Duncan Bell & Apolline Taillandier, "Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age," Perspectives on Politics (2024) @blazefutures.bsky.social
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What a week to talk about global infrastructure, right? 😅
New Anti-Dystopians episode out with Dr Andrew Dougall -- talking about everything from DOGE's attempted Treasury takeover to subsea cables.
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🚨My new article, ‘Conspiracy theory, anti-globalism, and the Freedom Convoy: The Great Reset and conspiracist delegitimation,’ co-authored with Scott Watson @uvic.bsky.social is out @risjnl.bsky.social bit.ly/4j9sNPz #conspiracytheory #greatreset #greatreplacement #worldeconomicforum #fredomconvoy
Imagery from military simulation games have become a misinformation scourge. @kjallen.bsky.social has ideas for mitigating the problem bindinghook.com/articles-hoo...
A new piece I wrote for @bindinghook.bsky.social exploring the online trend of misinformation emerging from military simulation games.
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NEW ARTICLE!
Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization, and Empire," History of Political Thought (forth.)
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.academia.edu/110100929/Jo... via @academia
🚨 Thrilled to announce that my latest article, with the fantastic @elkeschwarz.bsky.social, is now out (open access):
"Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing"
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Thanks for the welcome, Jan!