The Circulation of Gore and Extremist Messaging: An Examination of Two TCC-Associated Sites
The team at the Repository of Extremist Aligned Documents (READ) developed this insight by actively...
Collaborating for Chaos: Moving NVE Knowledge from Telegram to the Dark Web
The team at the Repository of Extremist Aligned Documents (READ) developed this insight by actively...
The Women Behind the Screens: How Digital Evidence Enhances Our Understanding of Female Terrorism Offenders
Criminal evidence is the key to prosecution. Yet, a UN report found that the collection...
ISIS’s Current Cyber Ambitions: Intent, Capabilities, and Threat
Cyberattacks have long been an integral part of the global threat landscape, posing a persistent...
ISKP’s QR Codes and the Limits of Text-Based Monitoring
On 1 July 2026, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added 134 cryptocurrency...
No More Edits: The Fagersta Attack and The True Crime Community in Scandinavia
On 21 August 2026, 18-year-old Liam Nebel walked into Brinellskolan in Fagersta, wearing all black,...
Reconceptualising Makarenko’s Continuum in the Digital Age: The Case of Hezbollah
This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin...
Neither Terrorist nor Criminal: How Hybrid Actors Fall Through Platform Moderators
This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin...
Blurred Lines: The Child Safety Gap in the Crime-Terror Nexus
This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin...
From Kyiv to Culiacán: How Mexican Cartels Are Adapting Drone Warfare Lessons from Ukraine
This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin...
Beyond the Ban Hammer: Building Resilience Against Youth Exploitation in Gaming Spaces
This Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Gaming and Youth (GYWG). GIFCT...
The Afterlife of the Tacloban Shooting: Nihilistic Violent Extremism in the Philippines
On June 22, 2026, two students aged 14 and 15, identified by their aliases “Nash”...
From Kashmir to Reels: The Localisation of Jihadist Propaganda in Indian Digital Spaces
Jihadist networks are targeting India by shifting from predominantly Kashmir-centric, Urdu-language long-form content toward Hindi...
“Create, Share, and Support”: How Pro-Islamic State (Is) Supporters Are Exploiting Capcut to Produce and Disseminate ‘No-Brand’ Propaganda Content Online
Since the advent of the Internet, extremists have exploited digital spaces to produce and spread...
TTP’s Technological Advancement and Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Challenges
Since the Afghan Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in 2021, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)...
Playful Extremism: Unmasking Jihadist Identifiers in Roblox Games Among Minors
As has long been recognised, terrorist organisations have moved from spreading propaganda through simple websites...
‘From the Belly of the Beast!’: Militant Accelerationists and the Iran War
Introduction Against the backdrop of the 2026 Iran War, a strand of militant accelerationism has...
Closing the Gap: Consolidating Terrorist Threat Intelligence in Frontier AI Governance
Government and industry leaders alike increasingly employ frameworks to assess and mitigate notable AI risks....
Hezbollah’s Financing Networks: A Threat Far Beyond Lebanon
This Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Countering the Financing of Terrorism Online...
From Propaganda to Practice: Instructional Media and the Diffusion of Drone Capabilities in Jihadist Ecosystems
On 1 May 2026, Marvin Aneer Jalo was sentenced in Phoenix, Arizona, in the United...
From Lab Expertise to Chat Interface: The New Risk of Toxin-Level Attacks
A recent report published by the New York Times (NYT) has shown that publicly accessible...
Fruit, Vegetable, and Brain Rot: The Use of Generative AI to Produce Violence-Based Viral Trends
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed online culture by making content creation faster, cheaper, and virtually...
From the Ground Up: Citizen-Led Counterspeech Against Male Supremacism on Reddit
From the Ground Up: Citizen-Led Counterspeech Against Male Supremacism on Reddit Amidst an increasing awareness...
From Blackpill Fatalism to Misanthropy: Unpacking the Motivation of the Schongau School Shooter
Content warning: This Insight contains mentions of suicide, rape, and hateful language. On 8 July...
The Sixth Annual GNET Conference: A Summary of Key Takeaways
On Wednesday, 27 May, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) hosted its Sixth...
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...