Browse and read from a list of the 170 most popular LinkedIn resources dealing with soft counter-extremism, countering hate speech, and on the theory of mis-/disinformation. As posted by Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip, during the first half of August 2024…

The Top 5 resources, as part of the current issue:

  1. How charities can tackle misinformation (NCVO, UK):
    https://lnkd.in/ee74W_Je
  2. Potential terrorists can be identified from social media posts – new research (University of Bath):
    https://lnkd.in/eSgy-UM8
  3. Children to be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online (The Guardian):
    https://lnkd.in/e5Ew5PmC
  4. US and UK collaborating to research misinformation campaigns (UK Research and Innovation):
    https://lnkd.in/e69P-8J7
  5. How Do We Know What Works in Preventing Violent Extremism? Evidence and Trends in Evaluation From 14 Countries (Global Public Policy Institute):
    https://lnkd.in/eaMtZax6

Background: since 2017, we have filed more than 15,000 shares on LinkedIn to a network of – now – more than 7,000 followers and connections – with links to articles and documents about countering extremism and radicalization, on countering hate, and on the theory of mis-/disinformation. This is one of the reviews of the posts. Each two weeks, the full list of resources, made up of direct links – ordered according to content performance – features in full on the three websites listed above.



All-of-society Approach To Address Hate Speech (SEARCCT, Malaysia):
https://lnkd.in/eqZQ8A27

Human Rights Tribunal affirms hate speech jurisdiction, providing broader protections for online spaces (British Columbia’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner):
https://lnkd.in/eaQKFMBQ

Disinformation and propaganda – impact on the functioning of the rule of law in the EU and its Member States (European Parliament):
https://lnkd.in/epFN_4NB

The Benefits and Challenges of Classroom-Based Surveys for the Study of Radicalization and Extremism among Adolescents (Studies in Conflict & Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/ehg4bzNh

RAN POL Working Group meeting – Mainstreaming the prevention of violent extremism (PVE) in crime prevention?, Madrid 06-07 June 2024 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/eENB6X-2

New commercial: Telekom once again takes a strong stance – focus on disinformation (Telekom):
https://lnkd.in/eCQsxEyh

Study Highlights Challenges in Detecting Violent Speech Aimed at Asian Communities (GeorgiaTech):
https://lnkd.in/eQcVxJMn

Information misbehaviour: modelling the motivations for the creation, acceptance and dissemination of misinformation (DiVA):
https://lnkd.in/ec-8MbeM

Fake News – A Threat to Democracy (Paradigm Shift, Pakistan):
https://lnkd.in/efnpZNN6

Readers trust journalists less when they debunk rather than confirm claims (The Conversation):
https://lnkd.in/eqp8Aprf

Violent disorder driven by disinformation and social media rumours, says NPCC, as PM warns those taking part ‘will regret it’ (Policy Professional):
https://lnkd.in/eZCKSXXC

Assessing the Validity of Open-Source Biographical Data in Terrorism Research (Terrorism and Political Violence):
https://lnkd.in/gZxqFCry

Tackling online content that stirs up hatred, provokes violence and spreads disinformation (Ofcom):
https://lnkd.in/e7_yqbdk

Radicalisation of children leading them to be vulnerable to criminal exploitation (BelfastLive):
https://lnkd.in/eSYrCpjS

Everything We Hear: Towards Tackling Misinformation in Podcasts (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/eSXN-WXE

British Disorder: Why we need to take Far Right Violence More Seriously (ICCT):
https://lnkd.in/gNjFFJWn

Disinformation and peacebuilding in sub-saharan Africa : security implications of AI-Altered information environments : research report (UN University):
https://lnkd.in/eDqY8Ebz

Using Agent Based Modelling to Advance Evaluation Research in Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorism: Prospects and Problems (Studies in Conflict & Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/e_RvBraN

Community Narratives in Producing Negative Images: Their Implications to Violent Extremism Recruitment (Asia Pacific Journal of Social Innovation, Philippines):
https://lnkd.in/eQggKPiw

Online Signals of Extremist Mobilisation (CREST Research):
https://lnkd.in/eTbT5C9s

A Guide to Content Moderation: Benefits, Challenges & Best Approaches (Anolytics):
https://lnkd.in/eiixS7PV

Gendered Extremism in the Pacific on 4chan: A Mixed-methods Exploration of Australian and New Zealanders’ Concepts of Women, Gender, and Sexual Violence on /Pol/ (CrimrXiv):
https://lnkd.in/gQ8-8Fy7

Ghana developing National Action Plan to address disinformation, misinformation – President Akufo-Addo (Ghana News Agency):
https://lnkd.in/e3Es8t7r

Building the capacity of young people to fight violent extremism (Kenya Moja):
https://lnkd.in/gycvhTX5 (News)
https://lnkd.in/g2T7g3Jy (Video)

The eleventh National Security Symposium opens in Kigali (Government of the Republic of Rwanda):
https://lnkd.in/eDv68pgd

Research Compilation on Online Antisemitism (ISD):
https://lnkd.in/e7DQcdrW

Kerala government implements ‘Fake News detection’ in school textbooks (The Economic Times, India):
https://lnkd.in/eawwkiYu

Building Resilience to Manipulative Information During Elections: Learn to Discern and Elections Facilitator’s Guide (IREX):
https://lnkd.in/gxCsB_Zp

A Shift Amid the Transition: Towards Smarter, More Resilient Digital Journalism in the Age of AI and Disinformation (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/eRR7gUQw

Study highlights challenges in detecting violent speech aimed at Asian communities (Tech Xplore):
https://lnkd.in/e2_k5kbt

NewsPolyML: Multi-lingual European News Fake Assessment Dataset (ACM Digital Library):
https://lnkd.in/eVABgymK

Monitoring report on gender disinformation and manipulation June 10 – 16, 2024 (Watchdog, Moldova):
https://lnkd.in/exyuj3et

Unoct And Interpol Successfully Conclude Joint Ct Tech Initiative, Paving The Way For New Project That Leverages Emerging Technologies In Countering Terrorism (UNCCT):
https://lnkd.in/eCdWnvtV

Meta shutters tool used to fight disinformation, despite outcry (NPR):
https://lnkd.in/e5HkxRxE

Unveiling evolving nationalistic discourses on social media: a cross-year analysis in pandemic (nature humanities and social sciences communications):
https://lnkd.in/egTu3cpx

Counter Terrorism Centre holds workshop to sensitize youth on violent extremism (KBC, Kenya):
https://lnkd.in/gxqeXDKE

CSU Pueblo Experts Warn: AI Misinformation Campaigns Pose Unique Threat to Latino Voters in 2024 Election (Colorado State University Pueblo):
https://lnkd.in/eqpRihgd

Information Pandemic: A Critical Review of Disinformation Spread on Social Media and Its Implications for State Resilience (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/e9zVzUgd

Do Large Language Models Speak All Languages Equally? A Comparative Study in Low-Resource Settings (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/ebtah-5x

Regulating Misinformation: Political Irrationality as a Feasibility Constraint (Topoi):
https://lnkd.in/gdMEjQAy

Patterns of identity attacks in extremist language uncover their violent intentions (Charles Darwin University Australia):
https://lnkd.in/egcFhdWg (News)
https://lnkd.in/ebscJW56 (Full Study)

Almost half of Britons now believe right-wing extremists are a major threat following 2024 riots (YouGov):
https://lnkd.in/gbp6tc3V

Audio, Transcript…
Using AI to Engage People about Conspiracy Beliefs (Tech Policy Press):
https://lnkd.in/eM8jfANq

Negative Speech Detection Using Recurrent Neural Network (JETIR):
https://lnkd.in/eB7PxjpK

International terrorists using AI to spread propaganda (New Straits Times, Malaysia):
https://lnkd.in/enYssDAf

Empowering Youth To Combat Misinformation: Media and Information Literacy Hackathon (UNESCO):
https://lnkd.in/eE_rBy6k

When it comes to preventing (far right) extremism, who is the “community”? (Connect Futures):
https://lnkd.in/eCacAEr4

Digital Counter And Alternative Messages To Extremist Content: Effectiveness And Way Forward (SEARCCT, Malaysia):
https://lnkd.in/e6ZH98gM

Online hate analysts are calling for greater eSafety powers after study finds rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia (ABC News, Australia):
https://lnkd.in/encYkhjm

Colorado election officials train on how to combat AI misinformation (The Durango Herald):
https://lnkd.in/e_tfjTMN

Responding to Online Extremism – Guidance for Professionals and Parents (SWGfL):
https://lnkd.in/e4uaWXbr

An Investigation Into Explainable Audio Hate Speech Detection (Papers with Code):
https://lnkd.in/e_zvqkHy

OpenAI to launch anti-disinformation tools for 2024 elections (The Daily Star, Bangladesh):
https://lnkd.in/gMmepCH5

Audio…
From Hate Speech to Politically Motivated Violence | Understanding the Far-Right Riots (Community Policy Forum):
https://lnkd.in/eE-t9P4H

Rethinking Building Digital Resilience To Radicalisation: Reducing A Person’s Susceptibility To Influence Through Discussion (SEARCCT, Malaysia):
https://lnkd.in/eSBhHJFC

Large language models can consistently generate high-quality content for election disinformation operations (Papers with Code):
https://lnkd.in/ej8UFm-Q

Fact or Fiction? Improving Fact Verification with Knowledge Graphs through Simplified Subgraph Retrieval (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/g6R4wugS

Reshare…
Online Signals of Extremist Mobilisation (CREST Research):
https://lnkd.in/eTbT5C9s

The Impact of Central Asia’s Critical Repatriation Efforts (Caspian Policy Center):
https://lnkd.in/esfP6hQt

CO24111 | Deciphering the Language of Internet Memes, its Use in Disinformation and Detection via AI (RSiS):
https://lnkd.in/emyBnrqy

Video…
It is Not Enough to Condemn Hate Speech; All Its Drivers Need to Be Punished -Okali (Arise News, UK):
https://lnkd.in/ein4JiRi

We need to engender police-community relations to fight crime, prevent violent extremism – NCCE to Canteen residents (GhanaWeb):
https://lnkd.in/eGwwEbUc

Hate Speech Detection and Classification in Amharic Text with Deep Learning (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/eqC-ENMy

Should we hate hate speech regulation? The argument from viewpoint discrimination (Oxford Academic):
https://lnkd.in/gGWAq-JY

Video…
The role of social media in far-right violence (CREST Research):
https://lnkd.in/evuZJ42s

AI-generated misinformation in the election year 2024: measures of European Union (Frontiers in Political Science):
https://lnkd.in/gzRaez5f

How children as young as nine are being indoctrinated by the far-right – as revealed by former neo-Nazi (The Independent):
https://lnkd.in/e8hQrJ6A

Misogyny, Racism and Violent Extremism in Australia (The University of Melbourney):
https://lnkd.in/eB4JmNdx

UNOCT/UNCCT Convene A Youth Focused Regional Policy Dialogue On Preventing And Countering Violent Extremism In Africa (United Nations):
https://lnkd.in/esru9mbr

The Role of Cybersecurity in Combating Online Harassment: Educational Insights (CXOtoday):
https://lnkd.in/eQTJQGe4

Opinion: Learnings From A Collaborative Effort To Protect Democracy From Misinformation (NDTV):
https://lnkd.in/estbGNgg

Researchers Validate the Dangers of Disinformation (Tech Policy Press):
https://lnkd.in/g597NZdC

Our Approach to Violent Extremism (Spotify):
https://lnkd.in/ehmd26P9

Scientists are falling victim to deepfake AI video scams — here’s how to fight back (nature):
https://lnkd.in/edR3zHxG

Video…
Community members work to oppose increase in hate speech online and in person (ABC News, Australia):
https://lnkd.in/eTT5zgBV

Exploring The Use Of Games And Gamification In Preventing And Countering Violent Extremism (PCVE) (SEARCCT, Malaysia):
https://lnkd.in/e8KGDZhR

How to spot misinformation on social media (yahoo! life):
https://lnkd.in/gJ6UUqae

Combating Online Extremism: Shifting Focus from Message to Audience (Modern Ghana):
https://lnkd.in/eEwTuaFm

Metropolitan Police Intensifies Efforts to Safeguard Communities Amidst National Unrest (CT Insight):
https://lnkd.in/evghX3rF

X sues advertisers for ‘illegal boycott’ of the platform (engadget):
https://lnkd.in/ed4b32md

The Role of Social Media Motivation in Enhancing Social Responsibility (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/ebAexecQ

Possibilities of Regulating Hate Speech in Kyrgyzstan: Options and Solutions (UNESCO):
https://lnkd.in/eede9Axc

Video…
Violent Radicalization in Afghanistan: Rationale, Ground, Causes and Implications (Porsesh Policy Research Institute):
https://lnkd.in/g9ymYwMv

RAN REHABILITATION working group meeting – The time aspect of rehabilitation, 04 April 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/eFhfaXZa

UK revisits social media regulation after far-right riots (Reuters):
https://lnkd.in/ehfnWeGE

War of Narrative in the Field of Counter Terrorism (The Spine Times):
https://lnkd.in/eyBUv7RG

Simulated Misinformation Susceptibility (SMISTS): Enhancing Misinformation Research with Large Language Model Simulations (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eKgq92HK

Audio…
Enter staged right: misinformation feeds Britain’s riots (The Economist):
https://lnkd.in/eU9pePAr

Where One Hears Free Speech, Another Hears Hate Speech (VOA):
https://lnkd.in/emzTfEmc

Open letter to UK online service providers (Ofcom):
https://lnkd.in/e9pDVn4S

Extremists volunteering in soup kitchens: How ideologies have evolved to attract Australians (SBS News):
https://lnkd.in/evbbDn_k

Social media: Disinformation expert offers three safety tips in a time of fake news and dodgy influencers (Phys.org):
https://lnkd.in/ei6TZ55r

Is Singapore doing enough to fight online youth radicalisation? (yahoo! news):
https://lnkd.in/efFP5Hfh

Middle-aged radicalisation: why are so many of Britain’s rioters in their 40s and 50s? (The Conversation):
https://lnkd.in/gKvA-EKG

Audio…
Wege aus dem Extremismus: Einblick in die Arbeit von Jugendsozialarbeiter Fabian Reicher (dabei-Austria):
https://lnkd.in/eHCX7T3p

The cancellation of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour shows is the latest incident in a long history of concert terrorism (The Conversation):
https://lnkd.in/efjwBSeb

9th Conference of Ministers of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs in Islamic Countries Begins in Makkah (Saudi Press Agency):
https://lnkd.in/eAZ4My93

Simmering Hate: Riots Mark an Escalation of Far-Right Extremism in the UK (RUSI):
https://lnkd.in/gicZSmrV

The persistence of toxic online messages influences perceptions of harm and attributions of blame (Journal of Communication):
https://lnkd.in/e3cmBPDS

Online communities come with real-world consequences for individuals and societies (nature Communications Psychology):
https://lnkd.in/ed5EY-nn

Journalists Receive Human Rights, Hate Speech Training (Daily Guide Network, Ghana):
https://lnkd.in/eX3fNWh8

Analysis calls for more holistic approach to prevent violent crime in Scranton (The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA):
https://lnkd.in/giBRA6fC

LiveFC: A System for Live Fact-Checking of Audio Streams (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/g3dFBMQE

More than 700 arrests made and 302 people charged over riots in England (The Guardian):
https://lnkd.in/erwg7dXF

Audio…
Young Australians at threat of radicalisation (ABC, Australia):
https://lnkd.in/eedUjF5C

AI disinformation: lessons from the UK’s election (ASPI):
https://lnkd.in/eFRX2UVt

Audio…
Zwischen den Zeilen – Die Macht der Metaphern (modus | zad):
https://lnkd.in/eY4EH5M8

Zero shot VLMs for hate meme detection: Are we there yet? (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/etVTjHkw

Election 2024: Do not create grounds for extremists – Peace Council cautions youth (Ghana News Agency):
https://lnkd.in/eCjR-Esr

Digital Resilience, Cve And Emerging Technologies (SEARCCT, Malaysia):
https://lnkd.in/eurZDu-i

Social media: Disinformation expert offers 3 safety tips in a time of fake news and dodgy influencers (The Conversation):
https://lnkd.in/eE7ejt7t

Video…
Britain needs ‘legitimate debate’ to avoid more extremism | Robert Jenrick (Times Radio):
https://lnkd.in/eMfn2xRj

Fight against misinformation requires concerted efforts – Rashida Saani (GhanaWeb):
https://lnkd.in/e4d7nDpZ

Watch out on the internet: Together against fake news (digital.global, Germany):
https://lnkd.in/eER4UiyB

Studierende bekämpfen Hate Speech (Deutscher Präventionstag):
https://lnkd.in/emUUAbFe

Unveiling Opinion Evolution via Prompting and Diffusion for Short Video Fake News Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eAv7n77M

Conspiracy theories and counter extremism (National Centre for Social Research, UK):
https://lnkd.in/efVBr_Z8

The perils of misinformation – spotting sewage in the sea of content (Bylines Cymru):
https://lnkd.in/gRE_iP5F

Year of elections: Lessons from India’s fight against AI-generated misinformation (World Economic Forum):
https://lnkd.in/g7XmGQD4

Audio…
Social media is flooded with disinformation about the presidential candidates (KUOW, NPR Network):
https://lnkd.in/ewx8SMb2

After Southport: Policy responses to far-right extremism (ISD):
https://lnkd.in/grNWNTt9

Crowd Intelligence for Early Misinformation Prediction on Social Media (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/ewQPNkMJ

Unlearning Climate Misinformation in Large Language Models (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/euTGb3tU

Effects of Intervention Timing on Health-Related Fake News: Simulation Study (JMIR):
https://lnkd.in/esTP72nH

Presentation of the study “Beyond Definitions. A call for action against hate speech in Albania” in Tirana, and the new Mobile Application of the Commissioner against Discrimination to report hate speech and hate crimes (European Union External Action):
https://lnkd.in/gcxcdKvE

Pixel, Politik, Polemik – Digitale Gaming-Welten als politische und gesellschaftliche Diskursräume (PRIF):
https://lnkd.in/edCZuCbk

Enhancing Fake News Detection: A Comprehensive Framework Leveraging XGBoost and CNNs (IEEE Xplore):
https://lnkd.in/eEC_Kt7N

eSafety Statement – Terrorist and extremist material on social media (eSafetyCommissioner, Australian Government):
https://lnkd.in/eVs32Vkx

The Tortured Teens Department: What the Terror Plot Against a Taylor Swift Concert Tells Us About Youth Extremism (U.S. News):
https://lnkd.in/eyGSyAr9

The Role Of Media And Digital Communities In Pcve Strategic Communications: The Philippines Experience (SEARCCT, Malaysia):
https://lnkd.in/eJjgrUu7

Has Elon Musk been radicalised by his own platform? (Independent Premium):
https://lnkd.in/etMsuS9K

Mauritania reaffirms stand with IMCTC in fight against violent extremism (ArabNews):
https://lnkd.in/eKSADWrU

Ireland to clamp down on social media companies refusing to remove hate speech (Bundle):
https://lnkd.in/e-d8x4FR

Deepfake Defences: Mitigating the Harms of Deceptive Deepfakes (Ofcom):
https://lnkd.in/eJ8VM-tU

Social environment enables extremism (Dawn, Pakistan):
https://lnkd.in/eyCZ4E69

BERTGuard: Two-Tiered Multi-Domain Fake News Detection with Class Imbalance Mitigation (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/e8nsKpEt

Blickpunkt Demokratie & Extremismus. Extremismus in Verbindung mit Organisierter Kriminalität. Teil 3: Nationale und Internationale Netzwerke (Journal EXIT-Deutschland):
https://lnkd.in/et2VS6pg

Country Brief : A social psychological perspective on trends of extremism in Finland (D.Rad via University of Helsinki):
https://lnkd.in/eeqU–2Q

Video…
Tinubu Needs to Deal With Those Perpetrating Hate Speeches Toward an Ethnic Group -Adeniyi/Agbakahi (Arise News, UK):
https://lnkd.in/erCSzzVN

Covert Bias: The Severity of Social Views’ Unalignment Towards Implicit and Explicit Opinion (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/eKpC8TeM

Mitigating Text Toxicity with Counterfactual Generation (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/eagBHpYr

‘Online radicalisation’ partly to blame for rise in Australia’s national terrorism threat level (Cyber Daily, Australia):
https://lnkd.in/evEhGXXh

Extremism in all its forms has been ignored for too long by British politicians (The Guardian):
https://lnkd.in/e7aqNeqQ

What was Gamergate – and why are we still talking about it? (The Week):
https://lnkd.in/eBtXc4-4

Best Practice Framework for Online Safety Education (eSafetyCommissioner, Australian Government):
https://lnkd.in/engHGiPt

An Investigation Into Explainable Audio Hate Speech Detection (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/eR_AR55v

MultiHateClip: A Multilingual Benchmark Dataset for Hateful Video Detection on YouTube and Bilibili (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/esUBfvTr

Video…
Exposing Hate: How to cover right-wing extremist groups on your beat | with Kyle Spencer (Center for Cooperative Media):
https://lnkd.in/etzjK5gx

Global Crises, Local Impacts: Threats to Social Cohesion and How Cities Can Respond (July 2024) (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/e5DFX3VB

The Definitional Issue of Fake News (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/eGShBdmF

Conspiracy theories and counter extremism (National Centre for Social Research, UK):
https://lnkd.in/efVBr_Z8

“Be aware of disinformation online” senior officer says (Essex Police):
https://lnkd.in/e6YnV-Zc

Video…
The Hate Hub: Jonathan Ayling Discusses New Zealand Police Educational Material (Rhema):
https://lnkd.in/eqARA_z2

Effective leadership fosters religious harmony, says Singapore’s Muslim affairs minister (Malaysia Today):
https://lnkd.in/eufxFKfj

There’s a huge difference between free speech and hate speech (Metro, UK):
https://lnkd.in/etWXE6sn

National Violence Disorder Unit Needs Unified Government Threat Intelligence Coordination (Tech Against Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/e3v2522h

Video…
Tackling Fake News, Misinformation, Disinformation in a Virtually Connected World | hashtag#ELFAfricaImpact (Emerging Leaders Foundation-Africa):
https://lnkd.in/eYtaQ8Fe

Lack of social media enforcement behind radicalisation (Australian Associated Press via The Canberra Times):
https://lnkd.in/enNHZ5tF

Why is political disinformation on the rise? (The Daily Star, Bangladesh):
https://lnkd.in/eeTFczFd

New study’s findings can help communicators correct online misinformation (Phys.org):
https://lnkd.in/g9tXPPXw

A Study on Bias Detection and Classification in Natural Language Processing (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/gEa9ZE7i

Too many differences in how Dutch regions approach radicalization: Inspectorate (NL Times):
https://lnkd.in/e4qTfqge

Disagreement as a way to study misinformation and its effects (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/e_ibVg9Z


Free articles and analyses on counter-extremism, on countering hate, and on the theory of mis-/disinformation:
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