Browse and read from a list of the 135 most popular LinkedIn resources, including 4 audios and 5 videos, 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 May 2025… The Top 10 resources, as part of the current issue: First-of-its-kind MSU study links problematic social media use to belief in fake news (Michigan State University):https://lnkd.in/dqvaEYZX Studying soft hate speech online: Synthesising approaches from multimodality research and argumentation theory (University of Groningen):https://lnkd.in/d9CbZ5Ka Teaching Students to Think Critically: Combating Misinformation in the Age of AI (Optima):https://lnkd.in/dynmiPxe Misinformation and Disinformation in the Digital Age: A Rising Risk for Business and Investors (Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance):https://lnkd.in/dqhhXz3U Navigating the Nexus of Media Literacy, Information Security, and Journalistic Integrity (SSRN):https://lnkd.in/d23w_c4a Executive Summary: Impact Evaluation of a Foundational Training on Radicalisation and Extremism (ICCT):https://lnkd.in/dr3mEnYK Hidden Hate: Analysis of Hate Speech on a Darknet Forum (Justice Quarterly):https://lnkd.in/dSA8CtHb Advancing Terrorism Threat Assessment: Refining the Evidence Base and Evaluating Practice (University College London):https://lnkd.in/da6eGCF2 Die Bedeutung von Peer Support bei der Bewältigung belastender Online-Erfahrungen von Mädchen (Hochschule München):https://lnkd.in/dBCnBEsN Global Patterns of Viral Content on WhatsApp (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence):https://lnkd.in/dmKfUZ2u Background: Since 2017, we have filed more than 20,000 shares on LinkedIn to a network of – now – more than 7,900 followers and connections – with links to articles and documents about preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), against radicalization, on countering hate, and on how to desist from fallacious information. This is one of the reviews of the posts. Each two weeks, the full list of resources, made up of URLs ordered according to content performance, features on our three project websites. Browse on… German spy agency pauses ‘extremist’ classification for AfD party (Reuters):https://lnkd.in/djhKHDN6 Why Regulate and Monitor Social Media Content? (Magsaysay College/ ResearchGate):https://lnkd.in/dN-bmcq3 Developing Natural Language Processing Algorithms to Fact-Check Speech or Text (Procedia Computer Science):https://lnkd.in/dTewvRhk Australia must stop overlooking misogynistic youth extremism (ASPI):https://lnkd.in/dRrse_vs IMCTC trains Maldives’ religious leaders on countering extremist rhetoric (Sun Siyam Media):https://en.sun.mv/96412 Combating Fake News: A Survey on Identification and Mitigation Techniques (ACM Digital Library):https://lnkd.in/dPCVKaAG Detecting and Mitigating The Dissemination of Fake News Using AI Powered Systems (GIS Science Journal):https://lnkd.in/duk9fykc Perceptions of Far-Right Extremist Violence as Terrorism: Exploring Influences on Public Perception in the United Kingdom (Terrorism and Political Violence):https://lnkd.in/dZiM2YGW Video…What Is Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)? (International Policy Zone):https://lnkd.in/dxM_Tr32 UNODC Brazil, UNDP and Ministry of Human Rights launch Project to Adress Lethal Violence Against Children and Adolescents this Friday (UNODC):https://lnkd.in/dGekB5QG Global Counterterrorism Forum West Africa Capacity-Building Working Group and UNODC Hold Regional Meeting to Prevent and Counter the Use of IEDs by Terrorist Groups (UNODC):https://lnkd.in/d37EMVJj The Strategies of Terrorism (Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs):https://lnkd.in/dqt3FAzX The intersection of counter terrorism with early childhood education and care policy in England – the power of the panoptic schema (Early Years):https://lnkd.in/dqx8iMWF Multilingual Hate Speech Detection Using Meta-Transfer-Learning (IJSAT):https://lnkd.in/dKd6ArD6 Onlineprävention. Rahmenbedingungen und Standards für digitale Islamismusprävention (BAG Relex):https://lnkd.in/dk6zXrwi North America Regional Hub: Addressing Anti-Government and Anti-Establishment Hate in Times of Crisis — A conversation with Manitoba Municipalities (Strong Cities Network):https://lnkd.in/efVE4G-v Free eBook…Capacity Building Guidebook With Modules for Preventing Violent Extremism (Association for Action against Violence and Trafficking in Human Being):https://lnkd.in/dd5aPV7g In Their Eyes: How European Security Services Look at Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (ICCT):https://lnkd.in/dvmy2xXd Artificial Intelligence between Ethics, Logic and Law: a challenge that affects our national democracies (ANORC):https://lnkd.in/d-2xVT8C Audio…Countering Violent Extremist Groups, with Hans-Jakob Schindler (ACAMS Today):https://lnkd.in/dGzkrqY3 Top 5 Tips From the FBI: What to Do If You Suspect Terrorism (Homeland Security Today):https://lnkd.in/dN_-H79F (News)https://lnkd.in/d46XpYyB (Document) Separate radical Muslim prisoners to stop violence in Britain’s jails (The Telegraph):https://lnkd.in/d8RwZYYj “Natural Language Processing Unveiled: Overcoming Challenges, Celebrating Milestones, and Navigating Emerging Research Frontiers” (George Christopher, Toyin Dele, Yomi Adebiyi):https://lnkd.in/dnDWVGdM EcoFascism and Green Accelerationism: Ghosts of the Past or a Present Danger? (GNET):https://lnkd.in/dUbjxK_x Feature fusion for multimodal fake news detection (Procedia Computer Science):https://lnkd.in/dssFi7UD Unveiling Trends in Deepfake Research: A Global Bibliometric Perspective (DESIDOC):https://lnkd.in/d2Er7tJF Open Session on Organised Transnational Crime, Peace and Security in the Sahel Region (Amani Africa):https://lnkd.in/dN3DvvZS Landscape Review: Policing Technology-Facilitated and Online Violence Against Women and Girls (The Open University):https://lnkd.in/de92ir4q Crisis Points: Countering Extermism in a State of Emergency (CRIS Consortium):https://lnkd.in/dVVF8Axi (Executive Summary)https://lnkd.in/d37KAW4p (Full Report) Commentary on article on coding hate speech offers nuanced look at limits of AI systems (Tech Xplore):https://lnkd.in/dVG6bmRN The Relationship between Radicalization and Well-Being: A Comparison of European Countries (SSRN):https://lnkd.in/dhnhxmiF Reflections on the Netflix series ‘Adolescence’: How to steer boys away from the manosphere (EL PAÍS):https://lnkd.in/d7sGRwrt AI Content Moderation Analysis (International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Emerging Technologies):https://lnkd.in/ddBFi7f6 Rethinking education and training to counter AI-enhanced disinformation and information manipulations in Europe: a Delphi study (Cogent Social Sciences):https://lnkd.in/eyUx8EEH Survey on Detecting Hate speeches in Social Media with Logistic Regression on Twitter Data (IJIRT):https://lnkd.in/dgkv6hVS Hass im Internet. Zivilitätsverluste in der digitalen Kommunikation (Kai Hafez):https://lnkd.in/dzTWyYae Hate Speech, Liebe, Nostalgie. Geteilte Gefühle der Sehnsucht in digitalen Erinnerungsgemeinschaften (Manuel Menke):https://lnkd.in/d64PgfQc Adolescence has sparked fears over teen slang – but emoji don’t cause radicalisation (The Conversation):https://lnkd.in/dSmNYYa2 Online hate and abuse in sport: a report by Ofcom in partnership with Kick it Out (Ofcom):https://lnkd.in/dCH7wQYa Rethinking education and training to counter AI-enhanced disinformation and information manipulations in Europe: a Delphi study (Cogent Social Sciences):https://lnkd.in/dvK2neKa Video…Atteintes à la laïcité et prises en charge en CPRAF (IHEMI):https://lnkd.in/dhY-PKYs Online hate, culture of abuse is becoming normalized, study warns (DPA via yahoo! news):https://lnkd.in/dWrS4Yf5 (News)https://lnkd.in/dCH7wQYa (Report) A Comparative Study of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Identifying Assamese Abusive Comments on Social Media (Procedia Computer Science):https://lnkd.in/dJa9Cvmp Shooting the Messenger? Harassment and Hate Speech Directed at Journalists on Social Media (MDPI):https://lnkd.in/d8KwMz9P Audio…What are the signs of teens becoming radicalized? (Afternoons with Stacey Lee, FIVEaa):https://lnkd.in/dNM3xZan Annual Report 2024. Making The World Safer From Drugs, Crime, Corruption And Terrorism (UNODC):https://lnkd.in/dE9d7UTP Recruiting for the Cause(s): Extremist Propaganda and Radicalization Discourse (CUNY Academic Works):https://lnkd.in/d8zk2EPd Decoding Digital Discourse Through Multimodal Text and Image Machine Learning Models to Classify Sentiment and Detect Hate Speech in Race- and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Community–Related Posts on Social Media: Quantitative Study (Journal of Medical Internet Research):https://lnkd.in/efnhJqtd Better Internet for Kids: Online hate speech (European Union):https://lnkd.in/dV9yBDUQ Exclusive:Children risk being radicalised through social media, Scottish Labour MP warns (The Scotsman):https://lnkd.in/dCVfdwHK Audio…Jugendgewalt in Deutschland (Präventionsgezwitscher – Podcast Grüner Vogel e.V.):https://lnkd.in/dTgmwmjV (Spotify)https://lnkd.in/dPEZCzkF (podigee) How Do Users Perceive Nudges Against Online Misinformation? A Repertory-Grid Study (International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction):https://lnkd.in/dWp5SE4m The Truth Becomes Clearer Through Debate! Multi-Agent Systems with Large Language Models Unmask Fake News (arXiv):https://lnkd.in/ddr6mmHi Hate Speech Detection: Leveraging LLM-GPT2 with Fine-Tuning and Multi-Shot Techniques (Procedia Computer Science):https://lnkd.in/dsD5QcFc A primer on politicization, polarization, radicalization, and activation and their implications for democracy in times of rapid technological change (British Journal of Social Psychology):https://lnkd.in/d6wQjnaz Impoliteness reciprocity online (Journal of Pragmatics):https://lnkd.in/dg_44Fsz Democratic Resilience and Freedom of Expression at the Heart of EuroDIG Session on Countering Disinformation Online (Council of Europe):https://lnkd.in/dGsJg7pJ Video…Religious and Community Leaders training in Albania (Hedayah):https://lnkd.in/dssePYUb Mapping the GerManosphere: A Pilot Study (Freie Universität Berlin & ISD):https://lnkd.in/dp3yuGXU Terrorism: A Critical Review of the Literature and Implications for Theory, Research, and Policy (SSRN):https://lnkd.in/dJ6dUgwJ Experimental comparison of word embedding models for fake news detection (Problems of Information Technology):https://lnkd.in/dufm_edr CO25104 | Restoring Ontological Security in the Repatriation of Women and Children from Syrian Camps (RSiS):https://lnkd.in/dnrYmJxE How can advertisers stop funding online hate and disinformation? (Center for Countering Digital Hate):https://lnkd.in/dbz_Ww5y Misinformation Detection on Social Media, a Big Data and Machine Learning Approach (International Journal of Science, Architecture, Technology, and Environment):https://lnkd.in/dgCT34Y2 Reshare…Strategic Orientations On A Coordinated EU Approach To Prevention Of Radicalisation For 2024-2025 (European Commission Directorate-General For Migration And Home Affairs):https://lnkd.in/d_DQEk_e Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism in West Africa: What Options Are Left? (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung New York):https://lnkd.in/dcvU_h3g Ideological idiosyncrasies and individual-level radicalisation pathways: unpacking the mutating dynamics of contemporary extremism (Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism):https://lnkd.in/dnTgkKht Textual Persuasion Analysis for Identifying Manipulative Languages (IJFMR):https://lnkd.in/dZ7gxafi From Conflict to Courtroom: Indonesia’s Legal Response to Terrorism and Core International Crimes (ICCT):https://lnkd.in/dM29Y_uC Analysis Of Black-box Models With Explainable AI on A Targeted Group Hate Speech Dataset In Social Media (RESEARCH and TECHNOLOGY):https://lnkd.in/dkv7hFmw Mechanisms of mistrust: A Bayesian account of misinformation learning (PLOS Computational Biology):https://lnkd.in/d8Y8MHXQ Video…Countering Radicalism and Extremism in the Middle East: A Perspective from the Kingdom of Bahrain (Program on Extremism at GWU):https://lnkd.in/e8GYsnBM Misinformation Detection on Social Media, a Big Data and Machine Learning Approach (International Journal of Science Architecture Technology and Environment):https://lnkd.in/dyu75wEV Reshare. Free eBook…Social Processes of Online Hate (Routledge):https://lnkd.in/dV8UNS5U Terrorists use food as a weapon: how Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab exploit hunger (The Conversation):https://lnkd.in/daEAKZny The Fight Against Online Hate: How Dubai is Leading with Cyberlaws (hidubai):https://lnkd.in/dQ6p_rM7 PAM Convenes an Online Seminar on the Valletta Principles on National and Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategies and Developments (PAM):https://lnkd.in/dFpC-QSf Legal Implications of Social Media Regulation on Political Speech: Balancing Free Expression and Responsible Governance (Lawful Legal):https://lnkd.in/dJRzkTHB Virtual Watchdog Identifying Hidden Threats in Online Spaces (International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews):https://lnkd.in/dwnH3zBZ Why They Speak Up (or Don’t): Reasons For and Against Cybergrooming Disclosure Among Adolescent Victims (Journal of Youth and Adolescence):https://lnkd.in/d8qRECX5 Navigating the Virtual Realm of Hate: Analysis of Policies Combating Online Hate Speech in the Italian-European Context (Law, Technology and Humans):https://lnkd.in/d_Vk-K_c Measuring, monitoring and diagnosing the impact of mis /dis information to support future (non-legislative) policy development (The Australian National University):https://lnkd.in/dDiGXkR8 Detection of Fake News by Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks (International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering):https://lnkd.in/dT3-Yt5Q AI deep fakes infiltrate politics: Experts reveal tips to stay vigilant (IT Edge):https://lnkd.in/dkqUitrc Diskussionsräume und Radikalisierungsprozesse in Sozialen Medien (bpb):https://lnkd.in/du4dMXEQ New inquiry: Combatting New Forms of Extremism (UK Parliament):https://lnkd.in/d65MqsH5 Video…Data Literacy – the “fourth R”: what is it and why do we need it? (Australian Data Science Network):https://lnkd.in/dHsj8hUP Audio…Insidious and underappreciated? The impact of gender-based violence on national security (The National Security Podcast):https://lnkd.in/dgB9pp2a Free eBook…Trust, attitudes and use of artificial intelligence. A global study 2025 (KPMG):https://lnkd.in/daEGEBXs Psychological Distress, Terrorist Involvement and Disengagement from Terrorism: A Sequence Analysis Approach (Journal of Quantitative Criminology):https://lnkd.in/d8BzAdvy ‘Abuse has become normalised’: report details devastating impact of online hate (The Guardian):https://lnkd.in/dY2DYnZ5 Reshare. Free eBook…Counterspeech. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Countering Dangerous Speech (Routledge):https://lnkd.in/dFTa4hxi Reshare…New rules for a safer generation of children online (Ofcom):https://lnkd.in/dput26HR The Limits of Machine Learning Models of Misinformation (AI & Society):https://lnkd.in/dh6HUKPb Landscape Review: Policing Technology-Facilitated and Online Violence Against Women and Girls (The Open University):https://lnkd.in/de92ir4q (News)https://lnkd.in/dvTzKDZr (Report) The Influence of Social Media Usage on Online Political Participation (Journal of Educational Technology and Learning Creativity):https://lnkd.in/dfHr8VMQ Shots and Boosters: Exploring the Use of Combined Prebunking Interventions to Raise Critical Thinking and Create Long-Term Protection Against Misinformation (arXiv):https://lnkd.in/dGCuFwty Shots and Boosters: Exploring the Use of Combined Prebunking Interventions to Raise Critical Thinking and Create Long-Term Protection Against Misinformation (arXiv):https://lnkd.in/d7zeJd38 Europäische Strategien gegen Radikalisierung. Teilnahme des Grünen Vogels am EU Town Hall Meeting zu Radikalisierungsprävention (Grüner Vogel e.V.):https://lnkd.in/dcz3NWiU How Counterterrorism can Fail: Repression Fueling Jihadist Recruitment in West Africa (Haverford College):https://lnkd.in/ddSk-T9T Far-right violence and terrorism – April 2025 (OIET):https://lnkd.in/dQZ8UMcx (News)https://lnkd.in/daa68Zit (Report) Why All Climate Misinformation Should be Seen as Disinformation (Centre for International Governance Innovation):https://lnkd.in/dUqaPWyH UN Global Communications ‘Vital in Promoting Reliable, Factual, Multilingual Information’, Says Delegate, as Committee on Information Closes Session (United Nations):https://lnkd.in/d9UiY7zu Argumentative Exclusion and the Case of Online Hate Speech (Topoi):https://lnkd.in/dyfpDb8Q Evaluating Machine Learning Models for Sentiment Analysis of YouTube Comments and Creating an Accessible Web Application for Comment Analysis (Procedia Computer Science):https://lnkd.in/d2Yi8HGD Empowering Youth Voices Against Violent Extremism: UNODC, EU, and NACTA Host National Workshop for Civic Engagement (UNODC):https://lnkd.in/dhCnXged The Battle for Legitimacy in Hybrid Far-Right Narratives (Social Sciences & Humanities Open, SSRN):https://lnkd.in/dKQ-ZWgG Evaluation Metrics for Misinformation Warning Interventions: Challenges and Prospects (arXiv):https://lnkd.in/dPPEjScc New report indicates “shrinking space” for women’s rights defenders (Council of Europe):https://lnkd.in/dNHxJqvW (News)https://lnkd.in/dtmz3VZd (Report) UKElectionNarratives: A Dataset of Misleading Narratives Surrounding Recent UK General Elections (arXiv):https://lnkd.in/d96TpduW Characterizing AI-Generated Misinformation on Social Media (arXiv):https://lnkd.in/dUKBZKhi Measuring Change in Terrorist Engagement: Challenges and Future Directions (Homeland Security News Wire):https://lnkd.in/dvXJkrUU Fake News Detection Using Hybrid Transformer-Based Model (IJSAT):https://lnkd.in/dDpnYbbK Does YouTube fight misinformation videos? Analysing video removal over 3 years (KINIT, Slovenia):https://lnkd.in/dquVg4Ju Etidal, Telegram remove 16m extremist content (Arab News):https://lnkd.in/dFxEqvGj Here are 5 tips to combat misinformation on social media (WUSF npr):https://lnkd.in/dWBXMrDB policyinstitutenet #preventradicalization #preventextremism #preventhate Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Like this:Like Loading... Post navigation Online hate and abuse in sport: a report by Ofcom in partnership with Kick it Out (Ofcom) Stronger Together: Unleashing the Social Impact of Hate Speech Research (arXiv)