Publications Archive

SCN Publications Toolkits Digital Dispatches

Islamogram: Salafism and Alt-Right Online Subcultures
This report provides an ethnographic deep dive into an emerging online Salafi ecosystem, referred to by its members as ‘Islamogram’.
Read more
Ill Advice: A Case Study in Facebook’s Failure to Tackle COVID-19 Disinformation
This report aims to examine Facebook's efforts at tackling false information related to COVID-19 and vaccines on its platform by analysing the presence of a group called the World Doctors Alliance, whose members have spread various problematic, false and conspiratorial claims about the pandemic since March 2020.
Read more
‘Climate Lockdown’ and the Culture Wars: How COVID-19 Sparked a New Narrative Against Climate Action
This report documents a new trend used to drive anti-climate debate online – ‘Climate Lockdown’ – focussing on English-language content within the UK and US contexts. It documents the emergence of this narrative in March 2020, spurred by the public health response to COVID-19, and the subsequent evolution and spread of content across social media.
Read more
Policy Paper: Mainstreamed Extremism and the Future of Prevention
This policy paper considers the paradigm shift in prevention approaches required to respond to today's extremism challenges, focusing on a human rights based approach.
Read more
Hatescape: An In-Depth Analysis of Extremism and Hate Speech on TikTok
This research examined how TikTok is used to promote white supremacist conspiracy theories, produce weapons manufacturing advice, glorify extremists, terrorists, fascists and dictators, direct targeted harassment against minorities and produce content that denies that violent events like genocides ever happened. Furthermore, the report includes analysis of how users seek to evade takedowns by TikTok.
Read more
Gamers Who Hate: An Introduction to ISD’s Gaming and Extremism Series
This report serves as an introduction to ISD's Gaming and Extremism series, which explores the use of the gaming-related platforms Steam, Discord, Twitch and DLive by the extreme right, concentrating specifically on the UK. The series provides snapshot analyses designed to identify key trends and patterns which can provide the groundwork for future analysis.
Read more
Bankrolling Bigotry: An overview of the Online Funding Strategies of American Hate Groups
Hatred is surging across the United States, threatening the safety, security and wellbeing of minority communities, and societal harmony writ large. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and Global Disinformation Index (GDI) have analysed the digital footprints of 73 US-based hate groups, assessing the extent to which they used 54 online funding mechanisms.
Read more
Hosting the ‘Holohoax’: A Snapshot of Holocaust Denial Across Social Media
This briefing brings together the observations of a coalition of organisation who monitored the 2019 European Parliamentary Elections to identify distortion, disruption or interference campaigns and the technology companies response to them. You can read more about ISD's work monitoring the 2019 EU Elections in our interim report, published 24th May 2019.
Read more
The Genesis of a Conspiracy Theory
This briefing paper provides an overview of the key trends in activity around the QAnon conspiracy theory from 2017 to 2020. Crucially it points to major spikes in QAnon activity in March 2020, suggesting both an increase in activity to promote the conspiracy theory and the spread of this conspiracy to new audiences.
Read more
‘The Great Replacement’: The Violent Consequences of Mainstreamed Extremism
This report presents the findings of a project that investigated the prevalence, scale and nature of the ideologies and narratives that motivated the attack which left 51 dead and injured 50 more during Friday prayers at the Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Read more

Latest

This report provides a summary of anti-lockdown activity in Canada, encompassing the key figures, groups and ideological overlaps of those involved.

Diese Studie untersucht die Rolle des Klimaschutzes im Bundestagswahlkampf der Parteien und in der Öffentlichkeit auf Facebook und Twitterund und analysiert die Debatte auf die Verbreitung von Falschinformationen.

Diese Kurzanalyse untersuchte eine Stichprobe von 100 Kommentaren unter einem Instagram Post des deutschen Kanals des russischen Staatsmediums RT (RT DE) zum tödlichen Angriff auf einen Tankstellenangestellten in Idar-Oberstein vom 18. September 2021. Ziel war es, ein stichprobenartiges Lagebild der Narrative und Einstellungen der Kommentare zur Tat auszuwerten.

This report takes a look ahead at Kenya’s upcoming elections and what measures and preparations should be put in place to prevent the spread of racially- and ethnically-motivated violence that have marred previous elections in the country.

This report provides fresh insight into the types of discourses, actors, platforms and strategies found in the Slovak online extremist sphere.

ISD’s pioneering new research maps the rapidly evolving online Salafi ecosystem, providing a cross-platform snapshot data of a broad landscape of English, German and Arabic content.

This report provides an ethnographic deep dive into an emerging online Salafi ecosystem, referred to by its members as ‘Islamogram’.

A digital snapshot of the rapidly shifting online Salafi ecosystem across social media and its intersection with Gen-Z identities.

This theoretical briefing seeks to contextualise ISD’s research into the online Salafi ecosystem within the key political debates and terminological considerations.

This methodology paper provides an overview of ISD’s research approach for our data-driven snapshot of the Salafi digital landscape.

Islamogram: Salafism and Alt-Right Online Subcultures

Ill Advice: A Case Study in Facebook’s Failure to Tackle COVID-19 Disinformation

‘Climate Lockdown’ and the Culture Wars: How COVID-19 Sparked a New Narrative Against Climate Action

Policy Paper: Mainstreamed Extremism and the Future of Prevention

Hatescape: An In-Depth Analysis of Extremism and Hate Speech on TikTok

Gamers Who Hate: An Introduction to ISD’s Gaming and Extremism Series

Bankrolling Bigotry: An overview of the Online Funding Strategies of American Hate Groups

Hosting the ‘Holohoax’: A Snapshot of Holocaust Denial Across Social Media

The Genesis of a Conspiracy Theory

‘The Great Replacement’: The Violent Consequences of Mainstreamed Extremism

Latest

Anti-Lockdown Activity: Canada Country Profile

Kalter Wind von Rechts: Wie rechte Parteien und Akteur:innen die Klimakrise zu ihren Gunsten missbrauchen Eine Analyse über falsche Fakten, Feindbilder und Desinformationsnarrative im Umfeld der Bundestagswahl 2021.

Wie Instagram scheitert, gegen Hetze vorzugehen: Der Fall Idar-Oberstein.

Polarising Content and Hate Speech Ahead of Kenya’s 2022 Elections: Challenges and Ways Forward

Online Extremism in Slovakia: Actors, Topics, Platforms & Strategies

Gen-Z & The Digital Salafi Ecosystem: Executive Summary

Islamogram: Salafism and Alt-Right Online Subcultures

Understanding the Salafi Online Ecosystem: A Digital Snapshot

Theoretical Overview: Gen-Z & The Digital Salafi Ecosystem

Methodology: Gen-Z & The Digital Salafi Ecosystem