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.
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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.
Policy Paper: Mainstreamed Extremism and the Future of Prevention
This policy paper considers the paradigm shift in prevention approaches required to respond to today's extremism challenges, focusing on a human rights based approach.
The Business of Hate: Bankrolling Bigotry in Germany and the Online Funding of Hate Groups
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) have published a new study which shows how 17 known German far-right groups and actors alleged use online funding services to fund their activities. These services include companies like Mastercard, Paypal, Giropay and WooCommerce). More than half of these online funding services have Terms of Service (ToS) that should prohibit their use by such sites.
Das Geschäft mit dem Hass – Wie Online-Bezahldienstleister von der rechtsextremen Szene genutzt werden
Das Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) und der Global Disinformation Index (GDI) haben in ihrer neusten Studie 17 bekannte deutsche extremistische Gruppen und Akteure identifiziert, die Online-Finanzdienste nutzen, um ihre Aktivitäten zu finanzieren. Zu diesen Diensten gehören Unternehmen wie American Express, Mastercard und Visa, Paypal, Square und Klarna, aber auch Online-Shopping Unternehmen wie WooCommerce und Spendendienste wie Patreon.
Open Source, Self Defence: Tackling the Challenge of Extremist Websites and Open Source Tech
This analysis by ISD shows how extremist websites rely on open source tools and services to evade moderation for hate speech, incitements to violence or other content policy violations. While this presents a challenge, it also creates an opportunity to move beyond simplistic models of content moderation to responses driven by open source communities themselves.
Gaming and Extremism: The Extreme Right on Twitch
ISD discovered that content which expresses support for extreme right wing ideologies can be discovered on Twitch with relative ease, for example, through the practice of “Omegle Redpilling.” However, these videos are probably better considered as sporadic examples rather than representative of the systemic use of Twitch by the extreme right for radicalisation and coordination.