Conspiracy Clickbait: This One Weird Trick Will Undermine Democracy
This report uses case studies to examine the growth of conspiracy theories as clickbait, which will supercharge existing problems of disinformation and polarisation.
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Online Extremism in North Macedonia: Politics, Ethnicities and Religion
This report provides a baseline for the nature and scope of extremist, hateful and polarising narratives in the online ecosystem of North Macedonia. The report provides an overview of some of the most prominent extremist narratives across the political, ethnic, and religious spectrum in the country.
The Conspiracy Consortium: Examining Discussions of COVID-19 Among Right-Wing Extremist Telegram Channels
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.
Anti-Lockdown Activity: Ireland Country Profile
This report provides a summary of anti-lockdown activity in Canada, encompassing the key figures, groups and ideological overlaps of those involved.
A Taxonomy for the Classification of Post-Organisational Violent Extremist & Terrorist Content
This report outlines a prototype taxonomy for classifying terrorist and violent extremist content. It proposes dividing this content into the categories of ‘inspirational material’, ‘ideological material’, and ‘instructional material’ along one axis, ‘violent’ and ‘non-violent’ on another, and ‘group’ and ‘non-group’ on a third.
Between Conspiracy and Extremism: A Long COVID Threat? An Introductory Paper
In this series of briefings, ISD takes a look at anti-lockdown activity across Europe and North America. This paper provides a summary of this series, comparing these phenomena across borders, and identifying commonalities between these contexts.
Anti-Lockdown Activity: Canada Country Profile
This report provides a summary of anti-lockdown activity in Canada, encompassing the key figures, groups and ideological overlaps of those involved.
Polarising Content and Hate Speech Ahead of Kenya’s 2022 Elections: Challenges and Ways Forward
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.
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.
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.