Panel: ISD’s Zahed Amanullah at Metaverse Safety Week 2022
ISD Senior Fellow Zahed Amanullah took part in Metaverse Safety Week on 15 December 2022, broadcast live from the metaverse to an online audience.
Our Future of Extremism series examines the increasingly hybridised nature of the next generation of global extremism threats and responses. Through data-driven publications, thought-leading analysis and public events running through 2021, we will explore the priorities and principles that will underpin the next five to 10 years of counter-extremism policy and practice.
Anti-Lockdown Activity: United States Country Profile
This report highlights how extremists in the U.S. have capitalised on the COVID-19 pandemic to engage in violent attacks, produce and promote conspiracies and disinformation and intimidate those whose professions relate to managing or reporting on the coronavirus.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
Gaming and Extremism: The Extreme Right on DLive
ISD found that a wide range of extremist influencers, including British white nationalists, use DLive as part of a broader strategy to broadcast extreme right ideology online. Analysts also observed signs that efforts by DLive to implement more robust terms of service appear to be having an impact on extremist activity.
Gaming and Extremism: The Extreme Right on Discord
ISD found that the Discord platform primarily acts as a hub for extreme right-wing socialising and community building, as well as gamified harassment through ‘raids.’ The analysis suggests that Discord provides a safe space for young online users to share ideological material and explore extremist movements.
Gaming and Extremism: The Extreme Right on Steam
This chapter analyses 45 interconnected Steam community groups associated with the extreme right. ISD found Steam to host the most diverse subgroups of extreme right communities, ranging from public servers set up for supporters of far-right political parties to violent neo-Nazi groups, some active on the platform since 2016.
Gamers Who Hate: An Introduction to ISD’s Gaming and Extremism Series
This report serves as an introduction to ISD's Gaming and Extremism series, which explores the use of the gaming-related platforms Steam, Discord, Twitch and DLive by the extreme right, concentrating specifically on the UK. The series provides snapshot analyses designed to identify key trends and patterns which can provide the groundwork for future analysis.
Gaming and Extremism: Extremists Evade Mainstream Restrictions in Corners of Gaming World
ISD is pioneering a series of efforts to further explore the intersection between gaming and extremism.
20 Years After 9/11: Why Cities Matter More than Ever When it Comes to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism
With the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks upon us, Eric Rosand writes for the RESOLVE Network about the growing relevance of cities in preventing and countering violent extremism.
‘The Future of Extremism’ Series
An overview of ISD's upcoming The Future of Extremism series: an ambitious programme of data-driven publications, thought-leading analysis and public events focused on the next generation of extremism challenges and responses.