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The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) is an academic research initiative backed by The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a special project delivered by @csns-uk.bsky.social.
Timothy Kappler explores #OSINT-driven extremism: its strategic effects and how tech & other stakeholders can fight back — from enhanced moderation to cross-platform intelligence sharing — to raise the costs for extremists.
03.10.2025 15:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ghost guns, in particular 3D-printed guns, have been gaining popularity among youth, with several violent extremist examples in recent years. Rueben Dass aims to shed light on the global trends pertaining to youth involvement with 3DPFs with this Insight.
24.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today, Tore Refslund Hamming discusses how gaming platforms have become attractive digital spaces for extremists, focusing specifically on #Roblox and recent cases of extremist exploitation.
22.09.2025 09:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New piece countering hype on terrorist use of Gen AI. Adoption has been slow and its impact minimal, in contrast with criminals (where the impacts have been immediate & significant). But, we should anticipate an increase in adoption, largely in line with broader societal trends in future
17.09.2025 12:05 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Despite widespread warnings, terrorists’ adoption of Generative AI has so far been largely ad hoc and experimental. @davidwellsct.bsky.social contrasts TVE GenAI use with serious/organised crime, and outlines what could shape future adoption.
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Explore @gnetresearch.bsky.social’s PhD Researcher Series:
➡️ Sovereign Solutions: Extremist seller crimes & digital footprints
➡️ Antisemitism & Terrorist Manifestos: Online influence on beliefs
➡️ BR-ECHO: Countering extremism in Brazilian Portuguese
🔗 gnet-research.org/insights/
#GNET #CVE
🗓️ One day until our webinar - 'Terrorist Financing: Trends, Technologies, & Countermeasures', tomorrow at 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST.
Register now by clicking the details below.
Today, Abdul Basit analyses Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's propaganda arm, Umar Media, and its evolution, content, and expansion.
15.09.2025 10:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To learn more from Stephen about terrorist financing or the FATF, register for our webinar on 16 September, one week from today: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Today, Stephen Reimer analyses the Financial Action Task Force (#FATF)'s recently published 'Comprehensive Update on Terrorist Financing Risks' report. He explains the FATF's role in shaping CFT measures, and why what it says really matters for practitioners concerned with terrorism financing (TF).
10.09.2025 10:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Also going to plug mine and @jonlewis27.bsky.social's @gnetresearch.bsky.social article from earlier this year about the case and how legislators have failed to meet the moment.
09.09.2025 15:40 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Today, Dr. Linda Schlegel and Vivienne Ohlenforst offer a preliminary exploration of opportunities for gaming-related tertiary prevention and disengagement approaches, as well as the challenges that may arise for P/CVE practitioners in the space.
08.09.2025 10:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ashreet Acharya maps the evolution of fundraising tactics used by VEOs across #SouthAsia. He draws on recent open-source case studies to analyse how extremist actors misuse cryptocurrency, crowdfunding platforms, and digital payment apps.
05.09.2025 10:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for our next webinar💻
🗓️ Tues, Sept 16 | 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST
‘Terrorist Financing: Trends, Technologies, and Countermeasures.'
Featuring presentations from @jessmarindavis.bsky.social, Stephen Reimer, and Adam Rousselle.
Speakers + registration:
gnet-research.org/event/gnet-w...
I published a new Insight with @gnetresearch.bsky.social focused on Arma 3, a commercially available military simulation (Milsim) released by Czech video game developer Bohemia Interactive. Have a read here:
gnet-research.org/2025/08/26/b...
In our latest Insight, Cara Rau examines the emergence of a new IS-supportive outlet on #Element. She examines the group’s online activity to determine their main goals and provides recommendations on how to effectively counter their messaging to prevent recruitment into the vast IS online ecosystem
27.08.2025 12:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Community-building is an intrinsic and highly positive feature of games like #Arma. Yet, hateful or extremist actors can lead it astray, in conjunction with the capacity to modify or ‘mod’ the game.
@kjallen.bsky.social explores the Arma gaming series and these associated challenges.
Today, our latest Insight explores how social media platforms have contributed to the rise of violent extreme-right activity in #Ireland, with a focus on the use of arson as a key offline tactic.
20.08.2025 10:37 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Explore recent @gnetresearch.bsky.social insights on extremists exploiting digital platforms:
➡️ Hezbollah’s Latin America stablecoins & smuggling
➡️ Far-right Minecraft radicalization tactics
➡️ Nihilistic violent extremism & significance quest theory
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#GNET #CVE
Today, Tarun Agarwal examines the digital aftermath of the attack in Pahalgam, #India, on 22/4. He explains how AI-generated content was leveraged to deepen communal and sectarian divides and erode public trust in official institutions.
18.08.2025 11:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To conclude our PhD researcher Insight series, Michaela Rana & Josh Lindsay explore how antisemitism is weaponised to justify modern extremist violence. They analyse antisemitic tropes in manifestos written by far-right terrorists and offer recommendations for addressing antisemitic content online.
15.08.2025 12:49 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Excited to have a new piece out in @gnetresearch.bsky.social! I take a look at a recent case that offers some interesting lessons about cross-platform extremist activity and content moderation.
13.08.2025 13:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Explore recent @gnetresearch.bsky.social insights on tech-enabled insurgency:
➡️ ISWAP & drone warfare in Lake Chad Basin
➡️ FARC-EP & ELN’s online recruitment & control
➡️ Terrorist drone expansion across Africa
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#GNET #GIFCT #CVE
Today, Joseph Stabile contributes to our PhD Researcher Series with an Insight on Sovereign Solutions - a Neo-Nazi-linked tactical equipment and training company operated by two military veterans.
13.08.2025 10:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
In the first Insight of our PhD Researcher Series, highlighting emerging academic voices in the field of countering violent extremism and terrorism online, Ricardo Cabral Penteado introduces the BR-ECHO: a modular and explainable system for analysing extremist discourse in #Brazilian Portuguese.
11.08.2025 10:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In 2024, @gifct.bsky.social expanded its global tech membership and in 2025 launched a new Membership Advisory Program - streamlining access to tools, guidance, and collaboration in countering terrorism and violent extremism online.
➡️ Learn more: gifct.org/2025/07/23/o...
#GIFCT #OnlineSafety
Islamic State supporters are increasingly seeking platforms that combine security, privacy, and anonymity with broadcasting capabilities.
Alessandro Bolpagni and Eleonora Ristuccia examine how IS is using SimpleX Chat to organise and spread propaganda.
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In today's Insight, Imtiaz Baloch analyses how ISKP wages ideological, military, and digital warfare against #Baloch separatists in Pakistan.
He explores the implications this shift could have on Baloch society and the digital landscape.
gnet-research.org/2025/08/04/t...
Earlier this year, a #Singaporean was detained for planning a violent attack on minorities after being radicalised by Western, #FarRight extremist ideologies. @sonias26.bsky.social explores how these violent ideologies have been influencing homegrown radicalisation in the East.
01.08.2025 10:34 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Nina Kurt explores how terrorists across #Africa are using drones for attacks, surveillance, and propaganda.
Focusing on cases from early 2025, the analysis highlights how #UAVs have become affordable, accessible tools of asymmetric warfare across the continent
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