Misconceptions about the ‘Great Reset’, a World Economic Forum initiative responding to COVID-19, have fuelled conspiracy theories in recent years.
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This Explainer provides an overview of the use of internet memes by the extreme right wing.
This report provides an ethnographic deep dive into an emerging online Salafi ecosystem, referred to by its members as ‘Islamogram’.
ISD outlines 6 factors for assessing polarized topics and potential protests, noting common miscalculations in hysteria over online environments.
Patriot Front is a white supremacist organisation that aims to restore and reshape American society through perceived post-revolutionary virtues.
In our Jan 6 series, ISD examines the movements and ideologies behind the attack, their interplay, and how the landscape has evolved.
The ‘white genocide’ conspiracy theory holds that there is a deliberate plot to erase whiteness.
As online hate turns into real-world harm, US extremists shift focus from COVID and elections to single-issue topics.
This report investigates abuse targeting female political figures on TikTok and Instagram ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
The Boogaloo movement is an anti-government, anti-law enforcement extremist militia movement.
