Artificial Intelligence and Extremist Capability: How AI Lowers the Barriers Between Intent and Capability
The execution of mass-casualty attacks has historically been more constrained by extremists’ capability than by...
“The New Crusade”: What the San Diego Attackers’ Manifesto Reveals About Contemporary Radicalisation
On 18 May 2026, 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez and 17-year-old Cain Clark carried out a mass-casualty...
The Montreal Manifesto: An Attempt to Intellectualise Incel Ideology
On the morning of 22 June 2026, police responded to a report of a gun...
Extremist Music Communities and Online Radicalisation: The Case of the Antioch High School Shooting
On the 22nd of January 2025, Solomon Henderson (17) opened fire inside Antioch High School....
Terrorgram’s ‘Main Voice’: Lessons From a High-Profile Danish Trial
On 20 April 2026, a Danish‑French man named Jérémy Meilhac (J.M.) was convicted in a...
Between Meme Culture and Warning Behaviour: Interpreting Nihilistic Violence Aesthetics in Online Extremist-Adjacent Spaces
Trust-and-safety teams, school-safety staff, and prevention practitioners are increasingly asked to make sense of online...
The Counterterrorism Blind Spot: AI as a Radicalisation Environment
Counterterrorism officials have learned to look for extremists across the numerous online channels they operate....
Pre-Transactional Infrastructure and Insurgent Resilience: The Case of Islamic State Mozambique
By April 2021, Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP, also known as al-Shabaab or Ansar al-Sunnah)...
Online Jihadist Responses to the Iran War: Divergence, Propaganda, and Positioning
Since the launch of Israeli and United States’ military operations against Iran on 28 February...
Emerging Extremism Frameworks: Reexamining the 2023 Siam Paragon Attack in Context
On 3 October 2023, a fourteen-year-old teenager walked into the Siam Paragon shopping mall in...
The Invisible Pipeline: Human Trafficking, Extremism, and the Case for AI-Driven Detection in Pakistan’s Af-Pak Corridor
In Pakistan’s Af-Pak Corridor, human trafficking has become increasingly embedded within the operational and financial...
From Columbine to Teotihuacán: The Rise of Nihilistic Violence in Latin America
On 20 April 2026, a shooting attack took place at Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramids. The alleged...
A Silent Escalation: Anti-Technology Violence Coming to the Fore
This Insight investigates recent trends in anti-technology extremism, such as attacks on data centres and...
From Reaction to Retaliation: How Islamic State Dark Web Ecosystems Processed the San Diego Mosque Shooting
In the aftermath of the San Diego mosque shooting on 18 May, public discussion quickly...
HAYI and State-Cover Networks: The Changing Landscape of Terrorist Financing in Europe
This Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Countering the Financing of...
Innovation in AI-Enabled Harms: The Transference of AI Knowledge from Cybercriminals to Extremists
Violent extremist actors, including Salafi-Jihadists, neo-Nazis, nihilistic violent extremists (NVE), and others, are increasingly adopting...
Rituals of Recruitment: How Right-Wing Extremist Combat Sports Groups Mobilise Young Men Online and Offline
The growth of online fitness ecosystems with ties to right-wing extremism (RWE), alongside manosphere influencers...
Into the Manosphere: Louis Theroux’s Documentary and How Platforms Enable the Business of Misogyny
“Everyone in the manosphere is online just trying to make a buck selling ideologies.” –...
Distinctive Hallmarks: Investigations into Online Subcultures of Nihilistic Violence
Content warning: This Insight contains language describing self-harm and suicide. In recent months, a growing...
Unclaimed Violence: ISIS, Bondi Beach, and Digital Mobilisation
On 14 December 2025, a mass shooting on Bondi Beach in Sydney became one of...
The Digital Persistence of Violent Extremism: A Framework for Analysing Online Ideological Markers Post-Disengagement
Violent extremist ecosystems increasingly persist online despite sustained moderation efforts by technology companies. Individuals who...
Artificial Intelligence, Disengagement, and Terrorism Prevention: Opportunities and Challenges
This Insight explores the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool in the fight...
Online Spousal Rape Networks: Advancing Violent Misogyny in Real Time
A CNN report uncovered an online ‘Rape Academy,’ and the investigation revealed a global network...
Truth, Trust, and Extremism: The Sovereign Citizen Movement and Porepunkah
Truth, Trust, and Extremism: The Sovereign Citizen Movement and Porepunkah On 27 August 2025, ten...
Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia: New Hybrid Group Threatens and Confounds European Security Landscape
On a busy London street in broad daylight, a heavyset man walking down a sidewalk...
A Growing Global Threat: A Streamed Nihilistic Attack in Italy
On 25 March, a 13-year-old student carried out a stabbing attack at his middle school...
Not Just Copycat: Digital Ecology of School-Targeted Violence in Lázaro Cárdenas
On 24 March 2026, a 15-year-old student allegedly carried out an armed attack at a...
The ‘True Crime Community Stoplight Model’: Understanding Digital Pathways and Tumbler Ridge
Content warning: This Insight contains mention of suicide, violence against children, and transphobic slurs. On...
Han Ethnonationalism in China: From Historical Nostalgia to Transnational Extremism Influences
In the last year, the visibility of Han ethnonationalism in China has been on the...
Platforms for PCVE: A Look at the Influencers Countering Islamist Extremism on TikTok
Popular social media platforms have become central to Islamists’ ability to reach mainstream audiences, particularly...
Ecofascist and Nihilistic Extremism: Taking Stock of Evolving Grievances in Targeted Violence Manifestos
When extreme right lone actor terrorists expressed environmental concerns in the manifestos related to attacks...
The Darkest Shade of Green: Strategic Weaponisation of Environmental Governance by Violent Extremist Organisations
Over the last few years, a clear and troubling pattern has crystallised: where the state...
Speed Over Safeguards? The e-Evidence Regulation and Counter-Terrorism Investigations
In March 2026, Europol coordinated its largest-ever referral action targeting terrorist audio propaganda, referring over...
Beyond the Clan: Identity Formation, Influence, and Extremist Milieux in Online Gaming-Adjacent Spaces
Over the past two decades, gaming environments have become increasingly social and massified. Multiplayer games...
Jedag Jedug Jihadists: How TikTok Edits Turn Glorification of Jemaah Islamiyah Figures into Entertainment
On Indonesian TikTok, figures associated with past Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist attacks are quietly reentering...
The Resurgence of The Base in Europe: The Spanish Cell and a Transnational Accelerationist Network
Introduction In December 2025, Spanish authorities dismantled a cell linked to The Base, an accelerationist...
Francoism Online: Neo-Fascism, Memes, and Historical Revisionism in Spain
In Spain, a recent study indicates that young men are showing an inclination toward far-right...
Propaganda as Financial Infrastructure: How Islamic State and al-Qaeda Media Ecosystems Enable Terrorist Finance
Propaganda ecosystems function as parallel trust infrastructures, enabling extremist organisations to coordinate financial activity outside...
Operation Herof-2: BLA Propaganda, Female Fighters, and Virality on TikTok
On 31 January 2026, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) launched a wave of large-scale coordinated...
Operation Ghost Protocol: Infrastructure-Level Evasion in Islamic State Supporter Ecosystems
In a pro–Islamic State Rocket.Chat (TechHaven) channel, a lengthy post appeared on 11 February 2026...
“No shadowbans. No algorithmic games”: The Exploitation of UpScrolled by the pro-Islamic State Online Ecosystem
Major social media platforms have intensified content moderation efforts in recent years in response to...
Rapid Growth, Emerging Risks: Far Right Violent Extremist Content on UpScrolled
By the end of January 2026, the new social media platform UpScrolled became the most...
Al-Qaeda’s Cyber Jihad Movement: Plugging into Iran’s Wartime Hacktivist Ecosystem
On 4 March 2026, the Cyber Jihad Movement (CJM) issued a communiqué on its official...
Understanding Terrorist Innovation: A Case Study in Drone Adoption
Modern conflict has been shaped by the use of new and emerging technologies. The use...
The Designation of 764 Network: Why Does it Matter?
The 764 network is an international online sadistic network which operates at the intersection of...
Operation Herof-2: How Hakkal Media Weaponised the BLA’s Narrative Online
On 31 January, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organisation, launched the...
Inside the Discord Server: Echo Chambers and the Spread of Gen-Z Radicalisation
This Insight examines how extremist aesthetics and narratives inspired by jihadist groups are produced, circulated,...
AI-led Content Moderation Tools: Are They The Answer To Combatting Online Extremism in Canada?
Social media has proven to be a significant medium fomenting violent extremism, the circulation and...