This paper investigates potential platform manipulation on Wikipedia using semantic clustering techniques to identify covert and organised manipulation on a larger scale.
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This policy paper lays out the contours of an increasingly hybridised extremism threat landscape facing the UK, before considering the key components of a holistic policy strategy rooted in a rights framework.
ISD’s Aoife Gallagher speaks to the Irish Examiner about the increasing intimidation politicians are facing from far-right agitators and conspiracy gr
Online discourse about migrants and asylum seekers has become overwhelmingly negative in Germany, defined by inflammatory and misleading language, and the mainstreaming of harmful conspiracy theories such as the ‘Great Replacement’.
India’s upcoming general elections are likely to hand the Hindu nationalist Bharata Janata Party (BJP) a third term in office. This Dispatch examines
Within seven hours of Iranian drones being launched towards Israel, misleading content received over 37 million views on X.
‘Antifa’ groups operate in a mostly decentralized way but share a belief that they’re resisting fascist ideology, primarily through protests and count
The pro-CCP network known as Spamouflage is a long-running and widespread but largely ineffective operation. However, there is evidence that the netwo
Pro-Kremlin actors have exploited the attack on Crocus City Hall to blame Ukraine and the West, even though the Islamic State’s ‘Khorasan Province’ (ISKP) claimed responsibility for it. This Dispatch analyses online messages from pro-Kremlin actors in Russian, German and Italian.
In the wake of the Crocus City Hall attack outside of Moscow, ISD analysed how the bodycam-style video of the attack spread across X, reaching 59.9 mi
