Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET)

Crime-Terror Nexus in Latin America

This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin America and the ...
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From Kyiv to Culiacán: How Mexican Cartels Are Adapting Drone Warfare Lessons from Ukraine

By analysing specific examples of cartel drone operations alongside emerging evidence of tactical learning from the Ukrainian ...
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Reconceptualising Makarenko’s Continuum in the Digital Age: The Case of Hezbollah

Separately, PCC-linked networks have used cryptocurrency to move proceeds from the United States to Brazil, while a Hezbollah ...
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Blurred Lines: The Child Safety Gap in the Crime-Terror Nexus

This Insight is part of GNET’s LatAm series, which looks at the crime-terror nexus in Latin America and the implications/risks for tech moderation. Since 2021, major platforms have informally treated ...
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Neither Terrorist nor Criminal: How Hybrid Actors Fall Through Platform Moderators

As Byman and McCaleb note, this means content “would be permissible under most companies’ terms of service as long as the ...
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Understanding Eco-Fascism: A Thematic Analysis of the Eco-Fascist Subculture on Telegram

Three buckets of data were first collected to understand specific characteristics of eco-fascism: nature, outgroups/ingroups and militancy. Representations of nature in the visual culture could be ...
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Schrödinger’s Joke: The Weaponisation of Irony and Humour in the Alt-Right

The use of online memes is a cultural stamp of the alt-right community; the packaging of political ideology into humorous or ironic media shared within a collective as a set of inside jokes and ...
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Milk Parties and Soyjaks: Understanding The Alt-Right’s Metapolitical Appropriation of Milk

The imagery and symbolism associated with milk – from fertility and motherhood to purity and strength – have long been an inspiration in art, cinema and literature. The alt-right has strategically ...
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How QAnon Reacts to Failed Predictions

The QAnon movement is no stranger to failed predictions. Despite making numerous predictions about everything from the return of John F Kennedy Jr. to an imminent civil war, very few, if any, of the ...
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Techno-Caliphate or Terror from the Sky? ISWAP and Drone-Enabled Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Region

The deployment of drones by ISWAP could redefine regional counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations in the Lake Chad Basin region and beyond. ISWAP has recently assessed the militaristic ...
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Free the Captives: Islamic State Central Asian Fundraising Networks in Support of IS Families in Syria and Iraq

The toppling of the Assad regime in Syria in early December and the subsequent installation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led government sparked mixed reactions from an array of militant jihadist ...
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Extreme Right Radicalisation of Children via Online Gaming Platforms

The world is experiencing a new wave of far-right terrorism. There are concerning developments. First, the use of online gaming platforms for recruitment and radicalisation. Second, the decreasing age ...