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.
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Islamogram: Salafism and Alt-Right Online Subcultures
This report provides an ethnographic deep dive into an emerging online Salafi ecosystem, referred to by its members as ‘Islamogram’.
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.
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.
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.
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.