Discover how the rise of AI-powered jihadist propaganda is becoming a growing trend among pro-IS supporters. This new broadcast-style propaganda tool facilitates the dissemination of extremist material to a wider global audience.

gnet-research.org/2024/05/09/ai-…

📅We are exactly one week away from our next webinar!

Looking forward to folks joining us online for 'Digital Battlegrounds: Countering Radicalisation on Gaming (-adjacent) Platforms' on 14 May.

Click here for more details and registration⤵️

Very excited about our upcoming 4th Annual GNET conference here at ICSR War Studies on 29-30 May. If you're interested in or working on how extremists use a range of both hard and soft tech please RSVP:

gnet-research.org/events/the-fou…

📢 We are less than a month away from GNET's Fourth Annual Conference on May 29-30.

Join us for insights from international experts on the complex intersections of terrorism, violent extremism, & technology.

Conference agenda and registration: ⤵️

gnet-research.org/events/the-fou…

GIFCT is pleased to share that its research arm @GNET has launched a podcast!

Listen to the first episode with GNET's Research Director Fola Aina speaking with Jake Okechukwu Effoduh (@TorontoMet) about the intersection of #AI and violent #extremism .

gnet-research.org/podcasts/

Great discussion on #AI in this first podcast from GNET - the academic arm of Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT).

Includes a focus on the tremendous opportunities & benefits as well as risks, & on the challenges of bias and protecting privacy - looking forward to more of these!

🗓 Join us on 14 May at 5 BST for our webinar, 'Digital Battlegrounds: Countering Radicalisation on Gaming(-adjacent) Platforms', in cooperation with PRIF.

We are looking forward to presentations from Linda Schlegel and Dr Jessica White.

Register here ⤵️

gnet-research.org/events/gnet-wo…

Pleased to announce I will be speaking at The Fourth Annual GNET Conference (29-30 May 2024) — the panel theme is Global Trends, New Frontiers: Updates on the Non-State Online Threat Landscape (alongside Aaron Y. Zelin and others)
gnet-research.org/events/the-fou…

Despite drones becoming more available and lethal, their use in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region by groups like Al-Qaeda and ISK remains limited. Abdul Basit and Rueben Dass explore why and if it will continue. #counterterrorism

gnet-research.org/2024/04/29/tec…

In a candid interview with Anoosh Chakelian, Robin Simcox explains why he sees the 7 October attacks as a watershed for extremism in Britain.

Read the article here: newstatesman.com/encounter/2024…

The New Statesman

Paris Olympics: 16-year-old arrested after he said he wanted to 'die a martyr' at Games

France previously raised its security alert to its highest level ahead of hosting this summer's Olympic games amid concerns news.sky.com/story/paris-ol…

After the #crocuscityhallattack , social media swarmed with conspiracy theories implicating the USA, Israel, and others. Joshua Bowes highlights the danger and prevalence of these theories on both mainstream and fringe platforms.

gnet-research.org/2024/04/23/mos…

Terrorgram added to list of proscribed terrorist organisations.

The UK is to become the first country in the world to proscribe the #Terrorgram collective, with a draft proscription order laid against the group today. gov.uk/government/new…

Our latest GNET product, which aims to make our outputs and research we supports as accessible as possible in a range of formats.

🚨Big news! 🚨

Excited to announce our upcoming #podcast series on technology and #extremism , launching this month!

Stay tuned for eye-opening discussions with experts shedding light on these critical topics. 🎙️🔍🌐

Monday's sentence of Isle of Wight teen for terrorism offences is sadly a new norm-fuelled by social isolation & accessibility of content online
Thanks Lizzie Dearden for covering my and Hannah Rose's dataset & analysis of our Childhood Innocence Project
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

Extremist groups are leveraging digital gaming spaces for recruitment and propaganda. Dr. Rachel Kowert and Linda Schlegel stress the need for multistakeholder collaboration to tackle this issue.

gnet-research.org/2024/04/17/the…

UK:
A 19-year-old neo-Nazi from Brighton planned to blow up a synagogue and its worshippers in a suicide bomb attack during a Jewish holiday, a court has been told
thetimes.co.uk/article/3f7b2b…

“There is no need … to abandon the terms jihadism and jihadist out of political correctness or fear of offending Muslims” - Aymenn J Al-Tamimi’s response to the DNI article urging intelligence analysts to abandon words like “jihadist” and substitute “khawarij”gatestoneinstitute.org/20561/defining…

On 10 April in Bordeaux an Afghan stabbed 1 person to death and injured another before being killed by police
The man allegedly blamed the victims for drinking alcohol during Eid
At the moment the National anti-terrorism prosecutor's office is not involved
lepoint.fr/societe/attaqu…