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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
