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Happy to have contributed article to
CTC at West Point's Sentinel journal on post-Abu Ibrahim Islamic State (IS) 'caliphs',highlighting their obscurity but also how this hasn't broken IS's ranks.Also my first CTC article as an Associate of the Royal Schools of Music! ctc.westpoint.edu/caliphs-of-the…

Finally got a hardcopy of my study on Islamic State in Deraa co-authored with Charlie Winter and published at the Hudson Institute's Current Trends in Islamist Ideology journal!

Lake Chad Basin Weekly Security Update 15-21 May 2023: More ISWAP suicide bombers targeting the military, a humanitarian worker rescued after four years, and a suspicious explosion in Taraba. chroniclesoflakechad.substack.com/p/lake-chad-ba…

🧵Thread 1/ Does a reply on Twitter from Elon Musk help amplify misleading information? While common sense tells us yes, facts & figures are helpful!

In this thread, I explore to what extent Musk's endorsement of a misleading and racist tweet from @endwokeness helped amplify it

Quick update on #Sudan :

- The ceasefire, while it has unquestionably resulted in a reduction in hostilities, is increasingly fragile.
- Serious infractions have been reported from on-the-ground sources throughout it.
- Almost all breaches have been reported from #Khartoum ,…

We’re detecting events in real time, so if the ceasefire collapses, it’ll trigger a surge alert so you can know when, where, and how it happened.

If you’re an organisation that's aiding evacuation efforts or you have staff at risk, get in touch. Free access during the crisis.

It's finally up! My new long study for Current Trends in Islamist Ideology w/Charlie Winter on Islamic State in Deraa province. Includes revisiting the group's earlier history in the area,killing of the group's last 'caliph', & some graphics on attack data hudson.org/islamic-state-…

We're helping to support evacuation efforts from #Sudan .

If you have staff at risk, get in touch. Free access during the crisis.

DM me for more info.

A few myth busting thoughts on the UK’s evacuation operation in Sudan: 1. The UK reacted as quickly (if not quicker in some areas) in standing up a evacuation force. 2. It will have to operate for longer and have greater capacity than other Nations with smaller national numbers.

We're helping to support evacuation efforts from #Sudan .

If you have staff at risk, get in touch. Free access during the crisis.

DM me for more info.

ExTrac has been tracking, triangulating, and mapping events and emerging threats in #Sudan in real-time to support evacuation efforts.

If you’re an organisation with staff at risk, get in touch. Free access during this crisis.

1. At #AIFest this week, we presented ExTrac's automated real-time event detection, classification and geolocation system - a now-operational capability that we've developed with ongoing support from DASA and @dstl.

New writeup for GNET on the role(s) bot networks are playing for malign actors in online spaces, by ExTrac's @Abdullahrhmoun and Charlie Winter, and Central European University's Janos Kertesz.

gnet-research.org/2023/04/04/ter…

In the next Insight in our Telegram mini-series, @Abdullahrhmoun, Charlie Winter and Janos Kertesz shed light on how the Islamic State (IS) exploits bots on Telegram to coordinate sympathisers, curate their community, and amplify their propaganda. buff.ly/3K1kvcL

New article in Editors from ExTrac cofounders Abdullah Alrhmoun and Charlie Winter, writing with Janos Kertesz:

Using network science to explore the role of bots in terrorist communities.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Come to my book talk on Monday, if you’re around in London.

It’s a cross-topic event with colleagues at KCSC tracing the shifting significance of strategic communication in the context of #IS , #Russia , and #China .

(And there’s wine.)

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🧵1. This is an analysis of 30,000 tweets spreading disinformation about the #TurkeySyriaEarthquake . The #disinformation in question is the false story that 8-10 Western countries withdrew their ambassadors before the earthquake. The analysis indicates manipulation

Wild rumors from Kabul are reaching a fever pitch: top leaders being sacked, soft coups being plotted, internal discord. Will begin to percolate in media soon.

This is important moment to remember how little we know - and how little is even possible to learn - about the Taliban.