🔍 Webinar: Algorithmic Amplification of Extremist Content
📅 Wed 19 Nov, 17:00–18:00 (UK)
👉 Email info@voxpolinstitute.org to register
How recommendation algorithms can amplify harmful content—and how platforms can respond. Join us for an overview of risks, counter-speech, and mitigation strategies.
Our latest report launches online next Monday, 17 Nov., at 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET, with @s-macdonald.bsky.social, Valère Ndior, Gavin Sullivan, and report author Marguerite Borelli. Join us! More info at: voxpol.eu/events/new-v...
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This article - on how Muslims involved in street life and crime construct and relate to the social identity of the jihadist - looks well worth a read!
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🚀 VOX-Pol Institute webinar on Chatbots & Extremism 🚀
14 October, 15:00 to 16:00 (UK time)
- Do extremist actors misuse chatbots?
- What policies and safety mechanisms are deployed by tech platforms?
- How can chatbots be used proactively in P/CVE?
To attend, please email info@voxpolinstitute.org
⚡ Final hours. Extremists won’t wait.
Curveballs. Consequences. Decisions under pressure.
This is it for those professionally tasked with countering extremist content.
Registration closes tonight. Munich, 8 - 9 Oct
Sign up → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...
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🚨 The policy gap is real. The dilemmas are urgent.
This workshop puts those professionally tasked in the hot seat - curveballs, tough calls, consequences.
Munich, 8 - 9 Oct. Register by 3 Oct → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...
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⚡ Policy is catching up. Extremists aren’t waiting.
That’s why we're bringing together those professionally tasked - academics, regulators, law enforcement, platforms.
Munich, 8 - 9 Oct. Don’t miss it →
www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...
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💡 Closing gaps between extremist tactics and policy response.
Investigations, AI threats, resilience, real-time simulation.
Munich, 8-9 Oct → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...
👥 Bring a colleague? Discounts via info@voxpolinstitute.org
🔗 #VOXPolInstitute #CVE #CounterExtremism #DigitalSecurity
🌐 Extremists exploit the lag between action & policy
In Munich (8-9 Oct), those professionally tasked with tackling extremist & terrorist content will face dilemmas, twists & curveballs together
🎟️ Limited discounts: info@voxpolinstitute.org
Register by 3 Oct → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...
🌍 When extremists go viral before policy can react - what’s your move?
Join those professionally tasked with the response in Munich, 8 - 9 Oct.
Details → www.voxpolinstitute.org/events-1/tac...
👥 Discounts if you bring a colleague - email info@voxpolinstitute.org.
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⚡ Extremists adapt faster than policy - can you keep up?
Two days in Munich (8 - 9 Oct) bringing together those professionally tasked with tackling violent extremism content online
👥 Discounts if you bring a colleague - email info@voxpolinstitute.org
Further info & registration → lnkd.in/eCWijHaJ
Happening tomorrow! Our webinar on the changing nature of radicalisation online 👇
On 18th September, the VOX-Pol Institute will be teaming up with Institute for Countering Digital Extremism for a webinar on "The Changing Nature of Radicalization Online".
It will run from 9:00 – 10:00 (ET) / 14:00 – 15:00 (BST)
To register, please email: info@voxpolinstitute.org
The call for papers & breakout sessions at the 2026 Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) Conference is now open!
Join 250+ researchers, policymakers, practitioners and tech professionals discuss pressing challenges and opportunities on online terrorism and extremism. Visit www.tasmconf.com for details
Short expert talks will be followed by a live Q&A and discussion. Open only to the tech sector, email info@voxpolinstitute.org to attend
Join us for this insightful closed webinar that explores:
• How extremist actors might exploit chatbots—and how real these threats are
• The role of platform policies and safety tools in combating abuse
• The potential for chatbots to support countering and preventing violent extremism
🚨 Event Alert – 8 September 2025, 16:30 (London/Dublin time)
📣 VOX-Pol Institute presents: Chatbots and Extremism: Risks, Policies, and Opportunities
- Organisatons: ASEAN
- Organisations: Commonwealth of Independent States
- Bulk personal data acquisition
If you would be interested in writing one of these entries for the encyclopaedia, please do get in touch. Entries should be 2,000 words long, with a deadline of 30th September.
- Defining terrorism: North and Central America
- Terrorist organisations: UN sanctions regime
- Police powers: comparative pre-charge detention
- Emergency Powers Paradigm
- The war response
- The role of rights in counter-terrorism: right to life
line-up of contributors that includes @leejarvis.bsky.social @jamesfitz2.bsky.social @davidwellsct.bsky.social @rvanark.bsky.social @broderickmcdonald.bsky.social @conorgearty.bsky.social @muniramustaffa.bsky.social and many others.
We have nine entries left to commission, on the following topics:
**Call for contributors to the Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law**
@jessieblackbourn.bsky.social, @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social and I are compiling a new Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law, to be published by Edward Elgar. So far we have commissioned over 100 entries with a fantastic
On this week's Blog, Alice Sibley and @joshuabowes.bsky.social describe and discuss the ways in which UK far-right actors, including the Homeland Party and Britain First, are using X's Grok AI. voxpol.eu/exploiting-t...
Full report available at assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687611...
@bricksilk.bsky.social's report "Lessons for Prevent" has been published. Its important recommendations include that violence-fascinated individuals - with no particular ideology but the potential to commit acts similar to terrorism - should be accommodated within Prevent.
