Far-Right Communities are Pushing a Q-Anon Film
CTEC Digital Research Lead Alex Newhouse and Researcher Mike Donnelly recently published a brief investigating the disinformation campaign around a far-right conspiracy theory documentary.
CTEC Publications
The Russian Imperial Movement and COVID-19 Disinformation
Connor Michelotti, CTEC researcher and MIIS graduate student, investigated the Russian Imperial Movement, a violent, far-right, ultranationalist group that has been producing and spreading disinformation and hate about COVID-19. The group was recently designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States.
Inside the Islamic State’s Radicalization and Recruitment Machinery of Sudanese Medical Students
Current MIIS student Jan Havlicek explores why, and how, the Islamic State targeted elite medical students in Sudan for recruitment and radicalization in this CTEC Publication.
The Industrialization of Terrorist Propaganda: Neural Language Models and the Threat of Fake Content Generation
CTEC Director Jason Blazakis, Deputy Director Kris McGuffie, and online extremism researcher Alex Newhouse co-authored this report fake content generation online - and how cutting-edge neural language models could potentially drastically scale-up online propaganda efforts.
A Perfect Storm: How Climate Change Contributed to the Rise of the Islamic State
Paula Granger - MIIS ‘19 grad and 2019-2021 Empire State Fellow - analyses the contribution of climate change to the rise of the Islamic State in this CTEC Publication.
From Classifieds to Crypto: How White Supremacist Groups Have Embraced Crowdfunding
Alex Newhouse - MIIS ’18 grad, online extremism researcher, and data governance analyst at Playstation - penned this paper for CTEC on the topic of evolving American Far Right fundraising methods.
CTEC Director Jason Blazakis Co-Publishes with Foreign Affairs: The Muslim Brotherhood Is Not a Terrorist Organization
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Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) Director Jason Blazakis co-published Foreign Affairs article: The Muslim Brotherhood is Not a Terrorist Organization with Daniel Benjamin.