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Moving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online

Over the past decade and a half, counter-narratives – defined as ‘messages that…[demystify], deconstruct or delegitimise extremist narratives’ (Tuck and Silverman 2016: 65) – have become a key part of…

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Cumulative Extremism Online: How Moral and Strategic Aims Predict Narrative Escalation

Often when extremisms come about, they don’t occur in isolation. In the UK, for example, the emergence of extremist mobilisations have occurred subsequent to high-profile counter-movements, counter-protests and terror attacks…

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Are we witnessing the rise of a new terrorist trend?

Manifestos and livestreaming seem to be the new trend in radical right terrorist attacks. Halle is the latest in a string of terrorist attacks inspired by radical-right ideology. It follows…

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Alt-Tech & the Radical Right, Part 2: Inside the Radical Right’s Video Addiction

The world is watching over a billion hours of video content per day on YouTube, and easy-to-use recording and streaming tools can turn anyone with a smartphone into a broadcaster.…

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Putting Canada’s Hate Crime Data in Context

What does the latest data say about the prevalence of hate crimes across Canada and online? On July 22, Statistics Canada, the agency tasked with producing statistics to help better…

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The Radical Right Is Finding New Ways To Communicate Online

Even after hosting companies refuse to keep extremist sites like 8chan online, they find other ways to communicate on the dark web. How do we combat this? In the wake…

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Understanding Digital Hate Culture

Understanding how hate groups cohere in online spaces is essential toward understanding their growth and capacity to radicalize. Online radical-right extremist groups exhibit a massive range of ideological stances and…

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Radical Right Digital Communications: Webforums, Political Blogs, and the Swarm

This blog post draws on content from a chapter for a forthcoming report from VOX-Pol (voxpol.eu) In the last three decades, the emergence of digital communications has had a significant…

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Moving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online

Cumulative Extremism Online: How Moral and Strategic Aims Predict Narrative Escalation

Are we witnessing the rise of a new terrorist trend?

Putting Canada’s Hate Crime Data in Context

Understanding Digital Hate Culture

Critical Race Theory: A Dictatorship of the Woke?

Bolsonaro and Modi are at a COVID Crossroads

The Capitol Insurrection By The Numbers

Alt-Medicine: How the Far Right Weaponizes Vaccine Hesitancy

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