📕 GNET is thrilled to share the publication of a new policy paper, 'Beyond Extremism: Platform Responses to Online Subcultures of Nihilistic Violence.'

New @isdglobal.bsky.social report by Moustafa Ayad: “Our analysis provides insights and recommendations based on the increasingly fragmented online landscape that IS exploits in 2026.” www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/u...

🗓️ 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. 💻

CALL FOR CHAPTERS! Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

Excited to introduce the TITAN Project, a new research initiative aimed at taking the analysis of jihadist narratives to the next level. Looking forward to the launch event in Washington, DC. Come join us!

🚨 New research launch Introducing The TITAN Project: a cutting-edge tool redefining how jihadist narratives are analyzed Join us for a live walkthrough of its capabilities, findings & policy relevance 🗓️11 Feb | 📍GW Law RSVP required by Feb 6👇 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

A new analysis by @malikacoexist.bsky.social looks at how Islamic State-linked individuals in camps run by the Syrian Democratic Forces have used Instagram to seek financial support, and what this tells us about platform resilience, network behaviours, and monitoring gaps.

🚨NEW🚨 @surajlakhani.bsky.social and my new edited collection is out! Hard copy available in a few months. academic.oup.com/book/60071

Ramadan karim 🌙 ♥️ May it be a month of justice, kindess, and spiritual fulfilment [Queer Muslims graphic design credit: @saif0_0ali]

I also made a starter pack for the Topic of Terrorism, Violent Extremism and National Security. Part 1 of the starter pack is here go.bsky.app/T8hq4cX The second starter pack can be found here go.bsky.app/8gVEp2x If you want to be added please reach out

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

1/2The following are designated as Foreign Terrorist Orgs: 1. Tren de Aragua 2. Mara Salvatrucha 3. Cartel de Sinaloa 4. CJNG 5. Carteles Unidos 6. Cartel del Noreste 7. Cartel del Golfo 8. La Nueva Familia Michoacana public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-02873.pdf

MARK YOUR CALENDARS On August 13, 2025 My book on QAnon "From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement" will be published with Routledge's Far-Right and Fascism series. It will be available for Pre-Order in July. www.routledge.com/QAnon-From-C...

1/7 In an essay for Hedayah's special edited volume, Chelsea Daymon and I examine pro-Daesh fundraising campaigns and the narratives these online sources employ to elicit donations on Telegram and TechHaven. hedayah.com/app/uploads/...

L’historien Terrence Peterson raconte dans un livre, sur la base de nombreuses archives, la "pacification" conduite par l’armée française🇫🇷 en #Algérie pour tenter d’effacer le désastre Diên Biên Phu en 1954. Une méthode qui inspirera durablement d’autres armées, dont le #Portugal et les #États-Unis.

Anyone have book recs about the IRA and its overall history?

I wrote this in June 2023 a year or so after I tried to get mainstream outlets to cover the story. Haven’t been this angry about the collective failure of our society to properly address antisemitism in quite a while.

I’m all for touching the stove…this is all a lead up to the stove touching that results in third degree burns…

Really a wild thing to have watched right wing media manufacture consent for these pardons. In the wake of the Capitol riot, there was near-unanimous agreement that it was wrong. Four years later, the participants are “political prisoners” getting White House pardons

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*

Hey, Bluesky 🦋 We at the Global Network on Extremism and Technology are happy to join Bluesky to spread our research and resources on combatting extremism and terrorism on technology platforms, backed by @gifct.bsky.social. Stay tuned for our Insights, Webinars and Reports! gnet-research.org

Reminder: “During his first term as president, [Trump] tried to ban the app. In an executive order issued in August 2020, Trump claimed the app was capturing mass amounts of information about Americans & leaving it vulnerable to the Chinese government.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.

1/4 In my nearly 6 years of observing pro-IS online spaces, I’ve encountered countless instances where IS supporters seek to control info access. They tell fellow supporters to avoid mosques & unapproved scholars bc they know isolation works in their favor: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/u...

The infiltrator’s name is John Williams. To learn what he revealed about the paramilitary movement — and how a mole managed to become a senior leader in a major American militia — read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

🇭🇹 Happy independence day to Haiti! Bòn fèt endependans a tout Ayisyen #HaitianSky Image: Natalie Jolivert

After months of thinking about anime and extremism, I'm pleased to share my latest work for the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET). gnet-research.org/2024/12/19/a...

A second-grade student called to report the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School on Monday morning, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said at a news conference. “Let that soak in for a minute,” he said. “A second-grade student called 911 at 10:57 a.m.” - @washingtonpost.com

Der Spiegel reporting that the terrorist who attacked a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany tonight was a supporter of the far-right AfD and was a fan of Elon Musk: www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

Really excited all the books have arrived! Got them via a combo of the resource budget from work and gifts from family/friends 📚 Time to spend this winter holiday NOT wasting time online and enjoying these (ngl prob will still spend too much time on my phone though because I’m a bit addicted)

The Proofs Are In 😍😍 Seriously Cannot Believe My Book 'The World White Web' is Available for Pre-Order Ho Ho Ho #MerryChristmas 🎅🎁 This Was the Biggest Challenge of My Life and I Could Not Have Done it Without the Help of the Following People www.amazon.co.uk/World-White-...

Thrilled to share the cover of the ed. collection @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and I have authored! This book brings together a wonderful lineup of chapters, each offering a sociological lens on the complex issues surrounding violent extremism. Available soon! A thread introducing the chapters...

1/7 In this @GNET_research insight, I review a women's homeschooling Telegram group where some members share content from preachers like Muse Jibril, fundraising links from the camps in NE Syria, & in several instances, overt Islamic State propaganda. gnet-research.org/2024/12/16/t...

To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you. Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.

My team has been collecting data on the Syrian conflict since 2013/2014 (I've been part of it since 2020). I gotta say, I have goosebumps seeing it used and cited in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Excellent piece by @azelin.bsky.social for @warontherocks.bsky.social The Patient Efforts Behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Success in Aleppo warontherocks.com/2024/12/the-...

CaliphateTok: How Islamic State (IS) Leverages Social Media in Indonesia and the Power of Counter-Narratives - Jonathan Suseno Sarwono, GNET: gnet-research.org/2024/11/28/c...

OUT NOW: Our edited book on former extremists in preventing and countering violence. It is published with Oxford University Press, and it is #openaccess: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/... Thank you to all who contributed to this much needed collection.

Got some exciting bday gift book mail! Very excited to read @tgpeterson.bsky.social “Revolutionary Warfare” over the upcoming holidays

The fact that the editor of an academic handbook on Indian history is responding to a valid critique of the exclusion of any chapters on Indian Islamic/Muslim history by promoting anti-Muslim rhetoric and elevating pro-Hindutva scholars is really beating the charges of Hindutvaizing history -_-

ICCT just published 3 papers on gender and violent extremism today. Research on gender and radicalisation (2014–2024) has grown, focusing mainly on women in Islamist extremism, leaving gaps in literature and practice. The report highlights trends and underexplored areas. www.icct.nl/publication/...

Arrest warrant issued for Netanyahu over Israel’s war in Gaza by International Criminal Court www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom? @transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:

as Bluesky grows, bad actors take notice Beware the fake accounts new from me in @mashableofficial.bsky.social mashable.com/article/blue...

Deadline 22 Nov! Do you speak English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Czech or Slovak? ISD is looking for several Consultant Research Analysts to analyse & report on VLOPSEs' compliance with the EU’s DSA across key risks. This is a 1-year fixed contract, averaging 10 days per month 👇

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

Bonsoir à tous! I created a French/Francophone history Starter Pack (with some lit/culture France, Haiti && folks too) to help find people in the @sfhs.bsky.social @frenchcolonial.bsky.social @jwsfh.bsky.social communities & nos collègues en France. If I forgot you, please 👋 go.bsky.app/Uf5.5iT

Hi new folks! I'm a historian of French Empire, Algeria, decolonization, warfare, and migration, and I've just published a book. Check it out here (and use the code 09BCARD for 30% off if you're thinking of ordering): www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

If you are interested in research coming from early career researchers this is the starter pack for you. Are you currently in or have recently finished a graduate degree related to national security? Reply below or send me a DM to be included in the starter pack. go.bsky.app/NFDzxqK