Browse and read from a list of the 165 most popular LinkedIn resources that deal with counter-extremism and countering hate speech, as posted by Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip, during the first half of December 2023.
The Top 5 posts, as part of this issue…
- Ideological obsession: Unraveling the psychological roots of radicalization (PsyPost):
https://lnkd.in/eAETK57F - UNODC Youth-led action to prevent violent extremism and terrorism (UNODC):
https://lnkd.in/enQX2H6c - Empowering communities against violent extremism through livelihoods support systems (UNDP Ghana):
https://lnkd.in/eanWPcdb - Using custom GPT to create a hatespeech identification tool (via Medium):
https://lnkd.in/ejanEfdv - Dangerous Organizations and Individuals (Meta):
https://lnkd.in/e9mMVCZa
Background: since 2017, we have filed more than 12,000 of shares on LinkedIn to a network of – now – more than 6,200 followers and connections – shares of articles and documents about countering extremism, radicalization, and on countering hate. This is one of the bi-weekly reviews of our posts, hosted on the website counter-terrorism.org.
Safeguarding Information Integrity: Addressing Externality Costs of Misinformation in the Digital Age (ICT4Peace):
https://lnkd.in/eHgKZSgw
Countering reactionary co-radicalization (RC-R): using multi-representational ads (Critical Studies on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/eEynWi3r
Predicting Radicalism After Perceived Injustice: The Role of Separatist Identity, Sacred Values, and Police Violence (Journal of Social and Political Psychology):
https://lnkd.in/errnWe_g
“Je suis Samuel”: The hate crime of Samuel Paty (Policyinstitute.net):
https://lnkd.in/e6zKF66u
Critical terrorism studies and numbers: engagements, openings, and future research (Critical Studies on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/eQtY4qed
Radicalization: An Educational Approach (Global War on Terrorism – Revisited):
https://lnkd.in/efkdSPnG
Looking beyond waves and datasets: “cultures of terrorism” and the future of history in terrorism studies (Critical Studies on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/evbva9gV
2023 United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) Second Quarterly Briefing to Member States (UNOCT):
https://lnkd.in/eF5jXGmb
Risk of Radicalisation in Adolescents: Theory, Facts and Comments (Social Psychology and Society):
https://lnkd.in/eUCpT4Bf
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Violence and Trolling on Social Media (Amsterdam University Press):
https://lnkd.in/eY6tgjFz
Debunking Prevailing Assumptions About Monitoring and Evaluation for P/CVE Programmes and Policies (ICCT):
https://lnkd.in/eADsNmih
Indonesia-America Agree To Focus On Building Resilience Against Extremism (VOI, Indonesia):
https://lnkd.in/ezM26MmX
Trends in Terrorism: What’s on the Horizon in 2024? (FPRI):
https://lnkd.in/ep8smm8d
Empowering communities against violent extremism through livelihoods support systems (GhanaWeb):
https://lnkd.in/eDQAHFch
Strategic Communications in FTF Repatriation & Reintegration: Guiding Principles for Policymakers & Practitioners (Journal for Deradicalization):
https://lnkd.in/eCinEkRi
Autoregressive Feature Extraction with Topic Modeling for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis of Arabic as a Low-resource Language (ACM Digital Library):
https://lnkd.in/eYH-y-NV
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Bullying During Adolescence: A Systematic Literature Review of Two Decades (Adolescent Research Review):
https://lnkd.in/eqTRBB3t
Terrorism and Strategic Effect: A Conceptual Framework (Perspectives on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/gXhR4mFC
CO19123 | Countering Religious Extremism: The Need for Regional Collaboration (RSIS):
https://lnkd.in/eqmzedZN
The Use and Exposure of Hate Speech Among Students: A Discourse Analysis Study (Theory and Practice in Language Studies):
https://lnkd.in/e8Y5-uN9
Regulating online hate speech: the Singapore experiment (International Review of Law, Computers & Technology):
https://lnkd.in/eNs89axQ
SEM analysis of agreement with regulating online hate speech: influences of victimization, social harm assessment, and regulatory effectiveness assessment (Frontiers in Psychology):
https://lnkd.in/eKJZBj9w
Community leaders worry about increased radicalization risk after arrest of youth in Ottawa (CBC News, Canada):
https://lnkd.in/enqrM-UH
Research on Extremism in the U.K. Hobbled by Skewed Research Environment (Homeland Security News Wire):
https://lnkd.in/eafm-hti
Why Post That? Re-thinking the Problem of Absent Presence within Social Media (Communication & Language at Work):
https://lnkd.in/eyVHdMxS
Experiences of bullying behavior among students in the school: A qualitative study (Environment and Social Psychology via ResearchGate):
https://lnkd.in/eWkw72-n
Preventing Cyberbullying and Online Harassment (Irma-International):
https://lnkd.in/eFk48-fx
A new California law regulating online content moderation will force X to reveal how it reviews hate speech (Business Insider, India):
https://lnkd.in/e5raQtFW
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Popular platforms failed to detect hate speech in adverts (Newszroom Afrika):
https://lnkd.in/e-u9wwW4
Court document alleges Meta willingly designed its platforms to hook kids: report (FOX5 New York):
https://lnkd.in/erc8fVd7
Social media users’ online behavior with regard to the circulation of hate speech (LERRN, Carleton University, Canada):
https://lnkd.in/e8_f6zKh
Muted: Multilingual Targeted Offensive Speech Identification and Visualization (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eJbWnQnC
Social Cohesion. A Basis for the Primary Prevention of Radicalisation in Cities (Journal for Deradicalization):
https://lnkd.in/e273t9KK
Lawyers mull challenges to terror orders as extremist freed (The Age, Australia):
https://lnkd.in/ez8qXTsv
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Parents should be on high alert for signs of radicalization, experts say (Herald Sun, Australia):
https://lnkd.in/euuhCzjA
Beyond Bullets and Bombs: The Rising Tide of Information War in International Affairs (CSIS):
https://lnkd.in/e8JT-j-7
Inspiring Practices for the Meaningful Inclusion of Victims/Survivors of Terrorism in P/CVE Work (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/eVtnuSUm
The Regulations of The Law Concerning Hate Speech Offenses (Journal of Law and Sustainable Development):
https://lnkd.in/eY_z2EZv
Global Hate and Far-Right Extremist Groups (Global Project Against Hate and Extremism):
https://lnkd.in/eZTZ-2US
Use of Large Language Models for location detection on the example of the terrorism and extremism event database (Publications Office of the European Union):
https://lnkd.in/e7pH2jSn
Five Things About Individuals Who Engage in Violent Extremism and Similar Offenses (OJP.GOV):
https://lnkd.in/gY5tNKSN
United Against Online Abuse: A Call for Global Action in Sports (Clark Hill):
https://lnkd.in/e5eCbsxr
The affective nexus between refugees and terrorism: A panel study on how social media use shapes negative attitudes toward refugees (Political Psychology):
https://lnkd.in/ennHPZyY
Expert-Annotated Dataset to Study Cyberbullying in Polish Language (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/ejbDnzpX
HARE: Explainable Hate Speech Detection with Step-by-Step Reasoning (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eh_dSe4k
Reducing Echo Chamber Effects: An Allostatic Regulator for Recommendation Algorithms (ResearchGate):
https://lnkd.in/e5CNgSbh
Interpreting The Radicalization Of Youth What Can Research On Nrm Converts Tell Us About Westerners Who Join Radical Islamic Groups (Radicalisation: A Global and Comparative Perspective):
https://lnkd.in/e4K-XnEf
Affect in Online Hate Speech (Ethnologia Fennica):
https://lnkd.in/esuc2niF
CTED releases new analytical brief: Enhancing effective public-private partnerships in countering the financing of terrorism (United Nations Security Council – Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate):
https://lnkd.in/eMqkHeC6
Cyberbullying Facts & Statistics (2024) (What’s the Big Data):
https://lnkd.in/ezfTx8CR
Comparative Analysis on Detection of Hate Speech/Offensive Language in Social Media (Tuijin Jishu/Journal of Propulsion Technology):
https://lnkd.in/edXfbZW6
The Global Online Safety Regulators Network: An inaugural year of growth, building trust, and collaboration (eSafetyCommissioner, Australian Government):
https://lnkd.in/exxg73s9
Intent-conditioned and Non-toxic Counterspeech Generation using Multi-Task Instruction Tuning with RLAIF (OpenReview):
https://lnkd.in/eXGZFnx7
The Punishment of the Grave: A Neglected Motivation for Jihad and Martyrdom (Perspectives on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/gjQ-zubQ
A Look at the State of Research on [Counter-]Terrorism and Violent Extremism (Perspectives on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/gKnYiBUR
How Local and Regional Governments Are Building Trust and Preventing Corruption (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/evH4nsNV
Radicalization: An Educational Approach (Global War on Terrorism – Revisited):
https://lnkd.in/efkdSPnG
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Unmasking Online Hate: Navigating the Shadows of Social Media (TheMindMatrix):
https://lnkd.in/e-R_7RKg
“Consumed by creed”: Obsessive-compulsive symptoms underpin ideological obsession and support for political violence (Aggressive Behavior):
https://lnkd.in/eJ2Kw6uC
Addressing hate speech in sport to build inclusive societies (Council of Europe):
https://lnkd.in/e43tHp4q
Tackling terrorist content online – Propaganda and content moderation (NOTIONES & Tech Against Terrorism Europe):
https://lnkd.in/eATCbjJw
Unmasking the Hidden Meaning: Bridging Implicit and Explicit Hate Speech Embedding Representations (Hal Science):
https://lnkd.in/eaRve2D7
Repository of Extremist Aligned Documents (READ)
https://lnkd.in/eYVtCRD6
Council of Europe’s Role in Europe’s Counter-Terrorism Landscape (Tactics Institute for Security and Counter-Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/e5juMpUX
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Gaming: 35% of adult gamers having seen white supremacist content (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/ehxy5SGt
Detection of Hate-Speech Tweets Based on Deep Learning: A Review (Jurnal Informatika dan Sains):
https://lnkd.in/eCMDCQV7
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Rising Extremism and Gendered Digital Abuse With Barbara Perry (Canadian Women’s Foundation):
https://lnkd.in/eEjqbn5V
DILG underscores resolute efforts to combat criminality, insurgency (Office of the President of the Philippines):
https://lnkd.in/ed7yeM9R
The annual analysis of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights notes a high increase in cases of hate speech (Sloboden Pechat, Northern Macedonia):
https://lnkd.in/escN_JwH
Religion in Conflict and Peacebuilding (United States Institute of Peace):
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kochthorsten_religion-in-conflict-and-peacebuilding-action-activity-7147355838121201664-NQc8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
No Space for Reddit Spacing: Mapping the Reflexive Relationship Between Groups on 4chan and Reddit (Social Media + Society):
https://lnkd.in/eFY3hTRN
Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms (UNESCO):
https://lnkd.in/eknSDtM9
6 Types of Bullying Your Child Might Encounter (Parents):
https://lnkd.in/e6fRPasQ
Online hate surges after Hamas attacks Israel. Why everyone is blaming social media (USA Today):
https://lnkd.in/eEUBXTK8
Key Takeaways from the Latest Country Reports on Terrorism (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy):
https://lnkd.in/eVNBDFaF
Towards a nation-based definition of hate speech based on Council of Europe standards (Council of Europe):
https://lnkd.in/epM4eCht
2023 And Avoidable Hate Speech! (Leadership, Nigeria):
https://lnkd.in/eu-AWCea
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Building Resilience to Extremism in Gaming: Identifying and Addressing Toxicity in Gaming Culture (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/eMAq5p7y
Why Are Bullies So Mean? A Psychology Expert Explains Their Harmful Behavior (The Conversation via The74):
https://lnkd.in/eq_w3eHZ.
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Online hate speech can lead to real-world violence (The ConnectSafely Report with Larry Magid):
https://lnkd.in/eiSnbM-g
The EU’s Digital Services Act takes on “The Algorithm” (Chicago Policy Review):
https://lnkd.in/eRtzBXMH
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RCMP warns of violent extremism among Canadian youth (CBC News):
https://lnkd.in/eDU4TVQy
Social Media Companies’ Moderation Efforts Lost Steam in 2023 (Bloomberg):
https://lnkd.in/e4YqkcSf
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Episode 111: Free Speech, Political Speech, and Hate Speech on Campus (Harvard Radcliffe Institute):
https://lnkd.in/e7eJakzH
Offensive Text Span Detection in Romanian Comments Using Large Language Models (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/eHSWWBik
A typology of disinformation intentionality and impact (Information Systems Journal):
https://lnkd.in/eiuDhdtq
Towards comprehensive cyberbullying detection: A dataset incorporating aggressive texts, repetition, peerness, and intent to harm (Computers in Human Behavior):
https://lnkd.in/eCgbb_FN
Self-Efficacy with Bullying and Cyberbullying Prevention Efforts in Supporting Implementation SDGs: Literature Review (Jurnal Kesehatan Komunitas Indonesia):
https://lnkd.in/ehWVb6H2
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Social media users’ online behavior with regard to the circulation of hate speech (Frontiers in Communication):
https://lnkd.in/eqynCYi9
Growing concern at rise of political extremism, Drew Harris says (Breaking News, Ireland):
https://lnkd.in/egT_W-Em
The Media Bias Taxonomy: A Systematic Literature Review on the Forms and Automated Detection of Media Bias (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/eTVdnHEH
CHALLENGES AND INNOVATIONS IN COUNTERING TERRORISM AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM – CHARGÉ D’AFFAIRES DAVID GREENE (U.S. MISSION NIGERIA):
https://lnkd.in/eCYV7yjY
‘Eradicating Hate Begins With Young People’ (Richmond Pulse, California):
https://lnkd.in/eNBfxJ9y
Is the Israel-Hamas War Spilling Over Into Europe? (Lawfare):
https://lnkd.in/enMQGJ9R
Cross-Linguistic Offensive Language Detection: BERT-Based Analysis of Bengali, Assamese, & Bodo Conversational Hateful Content from Social Media (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/eg2muU4D
Analyzing Zero-Shot transfer Scenarios across Spanish variants for Hate Speech Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eSBxf9gq
Victims of Terrorism and Reparation: Applying the 2005 UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation (ICCT):
https://lnkd.in/eWEfW32U
UCD: YouTube algorithm fuels extremism (Davis Enterprise):
https://lnkd.in/ebVuWurM
TuPy-E: detecting hate speech in Brazilian Portuguese social media with a novel dataset and comprehensive analysis of models (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/eWNCpptt
Moderating New Waves of Online Hate with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/egyqDcXg).
Nigeria Leads Other ECOWAS Members To Tackle Terrorism, Extremism (Leadership, Nigeria):
https://lnkd.in/eZWVE7J5
Annual Coordination Meeting of the National Commissions on Small Arms and Light Weapons (NATCOMs) held in Dakar (UNODA):
https://lnkd.in/eQhWDJ24
The Role of the US Department of State in Countering Terrorism (Tactics Institute for Security and Counter-Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/eqEHE6Pz
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The Intersection of Hate Speech and the First Amendment (Decalogue Society):
https://lnkd.in/eKHvXseZ
Online Media, Civic Engagement, and the Prevention of Religious Radicalism: Together for an Inclusive Future (A View of Empirical Evidence) (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/e_8xbezt
A social network approach to jihadist mobilization analyzing radicalization and recruitment among underage youth in Spain (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos):
https://lnkd.in/eravWkZ3
Obstacles and facilitators to intimate bystanders reporting violent extremism or targeted violence (Critical Studies on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/eEHfpcUx
Disrupting Terrorism Online in 2023 (Tech Against Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/e3ZiYvsV
Graph Neural Networks for Antisocial Behavior Detection on Twitter (Papers With Code):
https://lnkd.in/eEs9Nyxe
SAIRUS: Spatially-aware identification of risky users in social networks (Information Fusion):
https://lnkd.in/esbdCdEE
Adolescents’ cyberbullying experience and well-being: Sex difference in the moderating role of cognitive-emotional regulation strategy (Computers in Human Behavior):
https://lnkd.in/esznBYa5
Prevention of violent radicalisation and extremism in vocational education and training (Finnish National Agency for Education):
https://lnkd.in/e8fDgxyR
MENA Regional Hub: Moroccan Cities Efforts in Preventing and Responding to Hate, Extremism and Polarisation (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/eXvuxwvM
Social media kindness intervention increases innovation in college students (Computers in Human Behavior Reports):
https://lnkd.in/eC8rGXTa
HSA@20 Episode Companion: Domestic Terrorism (Congressional Research Service, U.S.A.):
https://lnkd.in/eDgKViMd
Acknowledge media’s role in fighting violent extremism, journalists tell state (The Sunday Standard, Kenya):
https://lnkd.in/eaMQ7y_u
Deep learning techniques for hate speech detection (Nanyang Technological University):
https://lnkd.in/ebXBtRfZ
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EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (EU FRA):
https://lnkd.in/esQ6868n
https://lnkd.in/ewuzYzPa
Doubling Down on Accountability in Europe: Prosecuting ‘Terrorists’ for Core International Crimes and Terrorist Offences Committed in the Context of the Conflict in Syria and Iraq (Perspectives on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/gJxavCNU
Imagined Extremist Communities: The Paradox of the Community-Driven Lone-Actor Terrorist (Perspectives on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/g6vX6m3y
Addressing violence in schools in Serbia: the Protector of citizens presented his Special report (Council of Europe):
https://lnkd.in/eWmeNCdm
Data-Efficient French Language Modeling with CAMEMBERTA (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eGwcZG2S
Violent Extremism and Sports in the Western Balkans, December 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/exaXWTNe
SCO’s Regional Security Mandate (Tactics Institute for Security and Counter-Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/ePaRcv7B
Christchurch Call Youth Engagement Session (Christchurch Call):
https://lnkd.in/eUUrygbE
Prevent: Rise in climate activists referred to anti-terror scheme (BBC News):
https://lnkd.in/eRaQTCrW
CERIS annual event 2023 – Fighting Crime and Terrorism/Resilient Infrastructure (NTU International):
https://lnkd.in/esG7eMhN
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“Maybe Tomorrow Could Be Different” – The Thought That Saved Kevin’s Life (Breaking Bullying):
https://lnkd.in/gAHM2u8K
Individual and Contextual Factors of Radicalisation (Perspectives on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/g2mv8s8e
Militant jihadist exploitation of youth and young adult vulnerabilities in the Maldives (Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/epd4nsJ6
How to talk to your children about hate speech (UNICEF):
https://lnkd.in/e-8_F4_M
Unmasking Digital Deception – OpEd (Eurasia Review):
https://lnkd.in/eEw3XnDr
Mahfud MD Explains 3 Extremism That Leads To Terrorism (VOI, Indonesia):
https://lnkd.in/eBWkyiJB
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What verbal de-escalation techniques are used in complaint handling? (Journal of Pragmatics):
https://lnkd.in/ekKuWRyN
RAN REHABILITATION Working Group Meeting – Mentorship in a rehabilitation setting, Stockholm 25-26 May 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/eZ7QdJz3
Gender Constructions in the Prevention of and Deradicalization from Islamism in Germany (Journal for Deradicalization):
https://lnkd.in/egMcADJY
Leveraging Zero and Few-Shot Learning for Enhanced Model Generality in Hate Speech Detection in Spanish and English (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/e8BHbijM
Mayoral and City Officials’ Learning Visit on Enhancing City-Youth Engagement in Preventing and Responding to Hate, Extremism and Polarisation (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/eYe2Zivv
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Graph Neural Network Approaches for Classifying Radicalization (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/e6V3pqbp
Debunking Misconceptions About Monitoring and Evaluation for Counter-Terrorism and Preventing/ Countering Violent Extremism Programmes and Policies (ICCT):
https://lnkd.in/esfgC-44
Semantic speech analysis using machine learning and deep learning techniques: a comprehensive review (Multimedia Tools and Applications):
https://lnkd.in/eEwUTGQ8
Outsider Women: Understanding Women’s Roles in White Supremacist Deradicalization (Journal for Deradicalization):
https://lnkd.in/esetWKHV
Twitter Threatened With Hefty Fines Over Handling of Hate (The Daily Beast):
https://lnkd.in/exrQ6_j4
Are Some Born to Bully? (Psychology Today):
https://lnkd.in/e3aePE9j
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FIU professor explains origin of hate (CBS Miami via Yahoo! Finance):
https://lnkd.in/esAKsKgY
High-Profile Crime and Perceived Public Safety: Evidence From Cologne’s New Year’s Eve in 2015 (zew.de):
https://lnkd.in/euzWNeFU
Religious Mobilisation to Terrorism and Implications for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: The Case of Abdullah Azzam (Journal for Deradicalization):
https://lnkd.in/ePpZ7Qmf
Witnessing workplace bullying — A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual health and well-being outcomes (Elsevier):
https://lnkd.in/eXTF9WyA
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United Nations Security Council Arria-Formula meeting on Artificial Intelligence (UN Web TV):
https://lnkd.in/er-v4wQj
Thesis Distillation: Investigating The Impact of Bias in NLP Models on Hate Speech Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eAf3y9Dh
Insurgency and Violent Extremism in Pakistan (Small Wars & Insurgencies):
https://lnkd.in/ez-gEra9
HATE SPEECH. Ein Schatten auf der digitalen Bühne (edit-magazin):
https://lnkd.in/ewAriJ4Z
Im toten Winkel – Rechtsextreme auf alternativen und etablierten Plattformen (ISD Germany):
https://lnkd.in/eQPRAsbe
700% increase in terror, extremist sites taken down in ’23 (ANSA, Italia):
https://lnkd.in/eJriFF2r
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Free Speech, Hate Speech, Misinformation and YOU! (Town Meeting TV):
https://lnkd.in/eDMbTXHb
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