🔍 Webinar: Algorithmic Amplification of Extremist Content 📅 Wed 19 Nov, 17:00–18:00 (UK) 👉 Email [email protected] to register How recommendation algorithms can amplify harmful content—and how platforms can respond. Join us for an overview of risks, counter-speech, and mitigation strategies.

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... #PleaseRS

This article - on how Muslims involved in street life and crime construct and relate to the social identity of the jihadist - looks well worth a read! doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

🚀 VOX-Pol Institute webinar on Chatbots & Extremism 🚀 14 October, 15:00 to 16:00 (UK time) - Do extremist actors misuse chatbots? - What policies and safety mechanisms are deployed by tech platforms? - How can chatbots be used proactively in P/CVE? To attend, please email [email protected]

⚡ Final hours. Extremists won’t wait. Curveballs. Consequences. Decisions under pressure. This is it for those professionally tasked with countering extremist content. Registration closes tonight. Munich, 8 - 9 Oct Sign up → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac... #VOXPolInstitute #CounterExtremism

🚨 The policy gap is real. The dilemmas are urgent. This workshop puts those professionally tasked in the hot seat - curveballs, tough calls, consequences. Munich, 8 - 9 Oct. Register by 3 Oct → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac... #VOXPolInstitute #CVE #CounterExtremism #CrisisManagement #Policy

⚡ Policy is catching up. Extremists aren’t waiting. That’s why we're bringing together those professionally tasked - academics, regulators, law enforcement, platforms. Munich, 8 - 9 Oct. Don’t miss it → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac... #VOXPolInstitute #CVE #CounterExtremism #Policy

💡 Closing gaps between extremist tactics and policy response.
Investigations, AI threats, resilience, real-time simulation.
Munich, 8-9 Oct → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac... 👥 Bring a colleague? Discounts via [email protected]
🔗 #VOXPolInstitute #CVE #CounterExtremism #DigitalSecurity

🌐 Extremists exploit the lag between action & policy In Munich (8-9 Oct), those professionally tasked with tackling extremist & terrorist content will face dilemmas, twists & curveballs together 🎟️ Limited discounts: [email protected] Register by 3 Oct → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...

🌍 When extremists go viral before policy can react - what’s your move? Join those professionally tasked with the response in Munich, 8 - 9 Oct. Details → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac... 👥 Discounts if you bring a colleague - email [email protected]. #VOXPolInstitute #CounterExtremism

⚡ Extremists adapt faster than policy - can you keep up? Two days in Munich (8 - 9 Oct) bringing together those professionally tasked with tackling violent extremism content online 👥 Discounts if you bring a colleague - email [email protected] Further info & registration → lnkd.in/eCWijHaJ

Happening tomorrow! Our webinar on the changing nature of radicalisation online 👇

On 18th September, the VOX-Pol Institute will be teaming up with Institute for Countering Digital Extremism for a webinar on "The Changing Nature of Radicalization Online". It will run from 9:00 – 10:00 (ET) / 14:00 – 15:00 (BST) To register, please email: [email protected]

The call for papers & breakout sessions at the 2026 Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) Conference is now open! Join 250+ researchers, policymakers, practitioners and tech professionals discuss pressing challenges and opportunities on online terrorism and extremism. Visit www.tasmconf.com for details

🚨 Event Alert – 8 September 2025, 16:30 (London/Dublin time) 📣 VOX-Pol Institute presents: Chatbots and Extremism: Risks, Policies, and Opportunities

**Call for contributors to the Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law** @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social, @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social and I are compiling a new Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law, to be published by Edward Elgar. So far we have commissioned over 100 entries with a fantastic

On this week's Blog, Alice Sibley and @joshuabowes.bsky.social describe and discuss the ways in which UK far-right actors, including the Homeland Party and Britain First, are using X's Grok AI. voxpol.eu/exploiting-t...

@bricksilk.bsky.social's report "Lessons for Prevent" has been published. Its important recommendations include that violence-fascinated individuals - with no particular ideology but the potential to commit acts similar to terrorism - should be accommodated within Prevent.