Online Extremism in Slovakia: Actors, Topics, Platforms & Strategies
This report provides fresh insight into the types of discourses, actors, platforms and strategies found in the Slovak online extremist sphere.
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Gen-Z & The Digital Salafi Ecosystem: Executive Summary
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.
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’.
Understanding the Salafi Online Ecosystem: A Digital Snapshot
A digital snapshot of the rapidly shifting online Salafi ecosystem across social media and its intersection with Gen-Z identities.
Theoretical Overview: Gen-Z & The Digital Salafi Ecosystem
This theoretical briefing seeks to contextualise ISD’s research into the online Salafi ecosystem within the key political debates and terminological considerations.
Methodology: Gen-Z & The Digital Salafi Ecosystem
This methodology paper provides an overview of ISD’s research approach for our data-driven snapshot of the Salafi digital landscape.
What’s New (and What’s Not) with News Front
Despite having been banned in 2020, pro-Russian propaganda outlet News Front has been able to return to Facebook for at least a third time without any significant innovation in its tactics or operation. This raises questions about how effectively Facebook enforces its own bans on known bad actors.
Ein Virus des Misstrauens: Der russische Staatssender RT DE und die deutsche Corona-Leugner-Szene
Diese Studie untersucht die populärsten Videos des russischen Staatssenders RT DE mit Fokus auf die Berichterstattung über die Covid-19-Pandemie sowie die Verbreitung dieser Inhalte in sozialen Netzwerken. Ziel der Analyse war, das Zusammenspiel zwischen der deutschen Corona-Leugner-Szene und RT DE zu erörtern.
Reciprocal Dynamics Between Australia’s Political Fringes on Twitter
For this research, ISD’s digital analysis unit have been monitoring a network of 208 channels distributing white supremacist content on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram. In an analysis of over a million posts, this briefing unpacks how the platform is being used to glorify terrorism, call for violence, spread extremist ideological material and demonise minority groups.
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.