Anti-Lockdown Activity: Italy Country Profile
This paper explores the various harms arising out of Italy’s anti-lockdown movement, and the overlap with extremist communities.
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The Far-Left and Far-Right in Australia – Equivalent threats? Key Findings and Policy Implications
This analysis explores the interplay between the Australian far right and far left online across Twitter, Facebook and Gab. Crucially, it provides an evidence base which demonstrates that the far-right is much more prone to violent rhetoric than the far-left, pushing back against conceptions which paint them as equivalent threats.
Anti-Lockdown Activity: Netherlands Country Profile
This report highlights how extremists in the Netherlands have capitalised on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anti-lockdown Activity: Germany Country Profile
This report investigates the key actors and harmful activities associated with the German anti-lockdown movement.
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.
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.