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This paper analyses the impact of a series of mass shootings committed in 2018–2019 by right-wing extremists on 8chan/pol, a prominent far-right online forum. Using computational methods, it offers a detailed examination of how attacks trigger shifts...

What role do /pol boards play in the far-right online ecosystem and how might security practitioners better mitigate the threat they pose? Over the past two decades, an ever-evolving series of anonymous image-board forums knowns as ‘chans’ have proliferated...

Misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda are core components of radicalisation and extremism and apply equally to Islamist radicalisation and the generation of Islamophobia. One method of countering disinformation is to inoculate the information...

In October 2018 and November 2019, Europol conducted two Action Days geared towards meaningfully disrupting jihadist networks on Telegram – a social media platform favoured by groups like Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda. This paper aims to understand...

Several violent far-right attacks in recent years have revealed an apparent connection with ‘chan culture’, not just in the tangible examples of attackers uploading manifestos, final messages, and live streams to chan sites themselves, but in the widespread...