Read from a list of the 570 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 October 2025.

The Top 10 resources, as part of the current issue…

  1. AI, human rights, democracy and the rule of law: A primer prepared for the Council of Europe (The Alan Touring Institute):
    https://lnkd.in/djkct7rE
  2. Militant Accelerationism and the Online Radicalisation of Youth (Tech Against Terrorism):
    https://lnkd.in/d9ushZaf
  3. Youth-Focused Programs and Peace-Building: A Policy Framework for Sustainable Employment and Security in Kenya (IJRISS):
    https://lnkd.in/damga49r
  4. Swatting Attacks and Nihilistic Violent Extremism: A Primer (Just Security):
    https://lnkd.in/d2rTfQ6V
  5. Gore online: How violent content is reaching children and what you can do (eSafety Commissioner, Australian Government):
    https://lnkd.in/dNFNqfGS
  6. Audio…
    The Changing Nature of Terrorism (Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik):
    https://lnkd.in/dgF-v4SP
  7. Evaluation von Praxismethoden gegen Hass im Netz (toneshift – Netzwerk gegen Hass im Netz und Desinformation):
    https://lnkd.in/dmS8KCpn
  8. Tracking down the Candy Crush Terrorist: the fragile relation between gaming motives and radical attitudes (Frontiers in Psychology):
    https://lnkd.in/dYWYkSVE
  9. The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Gender-Based Violence (Perspectives on Federalism):
    https://lnkd.in/dj_8kZje
  10. “Play as a Nazi prison guard”: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Online Extremist Materials in Online Gaming Environments (Frontiers in Psychology):
    https://lnkd.in/dchi5mbF

Background:

Since 2017, we have filed more than 22,000 shares on LinkedIn to a network of – now – more than 8,500 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 titles and URLs ordered according to content performance, features on our three project websites.

Browse on…

Saudi-Led Coalition Opens Counter-Extremism Training in Malé for Educators and Law Enforcement (PSM News):
https://lnkd.in/d8szf8Kq

Government of Canada announces more than $36 million for projects to help counter violent extremism (Public Safety Canada):
https://lnkd.in/dypBYMbQ

New Report Shows Risk of Harmful Misogynistic Content Targeting Boys (On The Record, Toronto Metropolitan University):
https://lnkd.in/d45irhsu

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle online hate (UK Research and Innovation):
https://lnkd.in/d9Karvid

Nihilistic violent extremism: What the FBI term means and why experts warn against overuse (Politifact):
https://lnkd.in/dDnu8RZd

Science Journalism in Ghana: Navigating AI and Misinformation in 2024 (Modern Ghana):
https://lnkd.in/dmErB_n2

A rule, not an exception: Misogyny and violent extremism (European Commission):
https://lnkd.in/dmNXUnGb

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Is there a link between online gaming communities and violence? An expert weighs in (NPR):
https://lnkd.in/du_4GQbT

Weighted Ensemble Model for Tackling Fake News (Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Futuristic Technology):
https://lnkd.in/ditwfg5k

Monitoring and Evaluation: Breaking Taboos, Sharing Results, Learning Together (Interventionen):
https://lnkd.in/dQ_spGUz

Who Drives Misinformation? Key Node Detection with Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (Discovery Science):
https://lnkd.in/dZxnwzhd

Met Police says it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents (BBC):
https://lnkd.in/d7_UxMTf

Battling Extremism: What Counts as Knowledge (RSiS):
https://lnkd.in/dnivvGCY

Disrupting malicious uses of AI: an update (openai.com):
https://lnkd.in/dSfn2wqw

Telugu NLP Challenges and Methods: A Survey of Filtering, Stemming, and Transformer-Based Hate Speech Detection (JATIT):
https://lnkd.in/dPkuT3D2

Content Moderation and Reliability in Publicly Editable Knowledge Bases (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/dAxYD7cG

A Predictive Intelligence Model for Fake News Detection on Online Media (INDJCST):
https://lnkd.in/dp_W9euv

Illuminating the Forensic Black Box: Understanding Radicalisation in Secure Settings (CREST):
https://lnkd.in/dkqE9YnB

Fake News Detection using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/duGBXGGG

New VOX-Pol Report published: Researching the Far Right (VOX Pol):
https://lnkd.in/dTPeNCJM (News)
https://lnkd.in/dbQZnmbB (Full Report)

CEP 15th General Assembly and International Conference on Gender-Based Violence in Probation (CEP-Probation):
https://lnkd.in/diTA-yBf

Measuring gender-based violence: Data collection and evidence on violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics (UN WOMEN):
https://lnkd.in/dD63vrSY (News)
https://lnkd.in/d4trtwtU (Brief)
https://lnkd.in/dbxDEmed (Report)

EU-UN Global Terrorism Threats Facility (UNOCT, United Nations):
https://lnkd.in/dQvtfB9S

Specializing General-purpose LLM Embeddings for Implicit Hate Speech Detection across Datasets (ACM Digital Library):
https://lnkd.in/dCgP_RZm

Understanding Misinformation Dynamics: A Machine Learning Analysis for sharing and Belief (The National High School Journal of Science):
https://lnkd.in/d4p7JfAW

Singapore’s Push for Safer Online Spaces and Responsible AI (Open Gov Asia):
https://lnkd.in/dUuFy6ph

Fake News Detection Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (The Chitransh Academic & Research):
https://lnkd.in/dUpysTDS

Digital Literacy Programs to Prevent Targeted Violence (Homeland Security Today):
https://lnkd.in/djTusqBS

RV-HATE: Reinforced Multi-Module Voting for Implicit Hate Speech Detection (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/d-apbKqN

Intercultural approach to countering disinformation training for Polish cities (Council of Europe):
https://lnkd.in/erNs_KvQ

Parents supported to navigate early years misinformation online (GOV.UK):
https://lnkd.in/dhQ_N23m

The Role of Social Media Platforms in the Dissemination of Hateful Agendas and Its Impact on Teenage Social Life, Resulting in Real World Crimes (The International Journal of Indian Psychology):
https://lnkd.in/d_nwhvMR

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Susceptibility to Violent Extremism (Terrorism and Political Violence):
https://lnkd.in/db-dB_HR

Introducing the Leadership for the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset (Perspectives on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/d3cWVNeg

From misinformation to climate crisis: Navigating vulnerabilities in the cyber-physical-social systems (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dCq-E43w

Right- and Left-Wing Violent Extremist Abuse of Digital Technologies in the Global South (ICCT):
https://lnkd.in/d69yJRes

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Reintegration of Former Terrorists: Indonesia – Asia Insight (NHK WORLD-JAPAN):
https://lnkd.in/dJ7exezW

After the Attack: The Challenge of Bystander Content (VOX Pol):
https://lnkd.in/de8RJmJE

UNDP, UNODC and EU Launch a New Regional Initiative to Prevent Violent Extremism Online in Asia (UNDP):
https://lnkd.in/d-B8xMcX

Free study in German…
Neue Veröffentlichung im Bereich Demokratieförderung: Ausstiegs- und Distanzierungsarbeit im Fokus (ISS):
https://lnkd.in/d87J_M7z

Video…
Addressing Domestic Extremism & Fostering Dialogue Over Division (Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution):
https://lnkd.in/dGzg9S2c

Generative AI’s Misinformation Crisis: Biases, Harms, and Calls for Regulation (WebProNews):
https://lnkd.in/dk_VREYa

Europe’s far-right find happy hunting grounds in social media (360info):
https://lnkd.in/dvYsZArF

“Almost constant”: Young people overwhelmed by harmful online marketing (Public Health Communication Centre):
https://lnkd.in/dd_Qpp-a

Researchers studied how Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek identify hate speech. Here’s how they vary (Fast Company via MSN):
https://lnkd.in/dVvRyJJN

Evaluation von Praxismethoden gegen Hass im Netz (Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur):
https://lnkd.in/dmS8KCpn

Majorities of the Spanish and UK public exposed to climate disinformation after the Iberian blackout and say countermeasures would be effective (Strategic Energy):
https://lnkd.in/dpH9K_PP (News)
https://lnkd.in/d3xv63zA (Study)

The Application of the Soft Approach Method in the Prevention of Radicalism (IJSSR):
https://lnkd.in/d8FcN88s

Free book chapter…
Unpixelated Hate? Lessons from VR Gaming for a Digital Civil Society (Democratic Culture in the Metaverse):
https://lnkd.in/dN69VmYe

Evidence for Intergroup Bias in Coalitional but not Selfish Dishonesty (PsyArXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dhBphdeE

Anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism supervision of banks is improving, the EBA finds (European Banking Authority):
https://lnkd.in/dMdJuB8A (News)
https://lnkd.in/dDJB5WNd (Report)

Goodbye is the hardest part: why is ending violence so difficult for non-state armed groups? (Humanitarian Law & Policy):
https://lnkd.in/dSFMdP68

Psychological Effects of Exposure to Terrorism Among Frontline Healthcare Workers (Journal of Loss and Trauma):
https://lnkd.in/dWtqXcE7

Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise (The Atlantic):
https://lnkd.in/dh9V6YV3

Automatically Generating Counter-Speech: Opportunities and Challenges of Using LLMs for CVE (CREST):
https://lnkd.in/dd4i_dYt

Annotating Hate Speech Towards Identity Groups (Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing):
https://lnkd.in/d3G6UeQ4

From Guns to Governance: Rethinking Burkina Faso’s Fight against Terrorism (OnPolicy):
https://lnkd.in/dTQBK8JP

Free book chapter…
Hate Speech in the Metaverse (Democratic Culture in the Metaverse):
https://lnkd.in/d6JiVwqH

Radicalization and Technology-Generated Environments: A Living Scoping Review Protocol (Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine):
https://lnkd.in/dpATFAui

New AFP boss warns hate crime laws may need to be strengthened further (ABC News):
https://lnkd.in/dW8C9src

Political fact-checking in the Middle East: What news can be verified in the Arab world? (Open Information Science):
https://lnkd.in/d-YcRNTD

Video…
UpToGATE Keynote 2024 | Prof. Preslav Nakov: Fighting Misinformation with AI (GATE Institute):
https://lnkd.in/dRRfZRqR

Exaggeration-based Fake Cybersecurity News Detection (ACM Digital Library):
https://lnkd.in/dKJGcseR

Model-Dependent Moderation: Inconsistencies in Hate Speech Detection Across LLM-based Systems (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/dhNAeiCc

Bridging Policy and Practice: Policy Workshop on Strengthening Pakistan’s Prevention Frameworks (UNODC):
https://lnkd.in/dVj6QZrq

The Next Generation of Resilience (CREST):
https://lnkd.in/dyCwYUpm

Implementing Standards to Support Formers in PCVE (Centre for Global Security Challenges, University of Leeds):
https://lnkd.in/djzA5ced

Analyzing Femicide Reactions in YouTube Comments: a Comparative Study of Giulia Cecchettin and Carol Maltesi (CLiC-it 2025):
https://lnkd.in/dj4h-9c9

Algorithms and terror: Pakistan’s blind spot (The Express Tribune):
https://lnkd.in/d2jfCNgi

Japan to conduct survey on online hate speech (The Japan Times):
https://lnkd.in/dzmEvgwM

AI-generated content a triple threat for Reddit moderators (Cornell Chronicle):
https://lnkd.in/dUQZ43qP

The Battle For Digital Sovereignty: How Big Tech Threatens National Autonomy (Madras Courier):
https://lnkd.in/dR8Z94qS

Critical thinking v fake news: a case study (Times Higher Education):
https://lnkd.in/diWdh_Cu

Swahili and Code-Switched English-Swahili Political Hate Speech Detection Textual Dataset (Data Intelligence):
https://lnkd.in/dMbkzjAz

From Brain to Platform: Why Disinformation Spreads and How Education Can Build Resilience (Security Theory and Practice):
https://lnkd.in/dNzDdKKp

PERSPECTIVE: AI and Online Radicalization: Intervention Models and Risk Protocols (Homeland Security Today):
https://lnkd.in/dht2mjKF

Teamm Vitality And Bodyguard Publish First Report On Online Hate And Toxicity In Esports (Team Vitality & Bodyguard):
https://lnkd.in/duiVfzF7

OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe supports High-Level Briefing on Tajikistan’s New National Strategy to Counter Terrorism and Extremism (OSCE):
https://lnkd.in/ei6Tu73E

YouTube shapes young people’s political education, but the site simplifies complex issues (The Conversation):
https://lnkd.in/dHkWcuxv

PromptGuard at BLP-2025 Task 1: A Few-Shot Classification Framework Using Majority Voting and Keyword Similarity for Bengali Hate Speech Detection (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dgzn3jrn

On the Interaction of Identity Hate Classification and Data Bias (ACL-BG):
https://lnkd.in/dwptvB4r

How to Spot Medical Misinformation on Social Media and Determine What’s Trustworthy (healthline):
https://lnkd.in/dTWHB_5A

Indonesia’s Counterterrorism Strategy: Examined (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/dxeqASj9

AI-generated content a triple threat for Reddit moderators (Cornell Chronicle):
https://lnkd.in/dUQZ43qP

Privacy Commissioner puts social media platforms on notice with new guidance (Office of the Australian Information Commssioner):
https://lnkd.in/dRzJuaeR

Synergies between “Hard” and “Soft” Interventions Against Online Extremism: An Agent‑Based Simulation and Cost–Benefit Analysis (Terrorism and Political Violence ):
https://lnkd.in/dhpQXuZu

Why Community Notes fail to stop misinformation on social media (Brainstorm, RTÉ):
https://lnkd.in/dCm-bCMy

Online media literacy: Across the world, demand for training is going unmet (Ipsos):
https://lnkd.in/dQnyTyKt

Revisiting Information Literacy: Reflective Practices for a Post-Truth Context (via ResearchGate):
https://lnkd.in/d7gjJg9R

Navigating News Neutrality: Implementing AI for Enhanced Bias Detection in Political Media (via Github):
https://lnkd.in/dqfh8h3Z

Terrorism in Bangladesh: Minimal Threat Yet New Trend of Cyber Radicalization and Migration (Daily Asian Age):
https://lnkd.in/dCkVAcpA

IMCTC Launches ‘Peace Journalists’ Program in Malé (SPA):
https://lnkd.in/dDQKE69b

Euro-Atlantic Resilience to Disinformation in the Digital Age: A Comparative Analysis of Existing Frameworks (International Journal of Cyber Diplomacy):
https://lnkd.in/d8YZ9T-b

Radicalization and Technology-Generated Environments: A Living Scoping Review Protoco (Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2025):
https://lnkd.in/dNVgYReC

Modeling the Attack: Detecting AI-Generated Text by Quantifying Adversarial Perturbations (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/d_D_RrDq

Social Connections and Loneliness in OECD Countries (OECD):
https://lnkd.in/d_jr67eX

OSINT: The Digital Force-Multiplier for Extremist Violence (CCRE-CEMR):
https://lnkd.in/djpyWMjd (News)
https://lnkd.in/dRcWxsP4 (Full Report)

Euro-Atlantic Resilience to Disinformation in the Digital Age: A Comparative Analysis of Existing Frameworks (International Journal of Cyber Diplomacy):
https://lnkd.in/d8YZ9T-b

AI models are struggling to identify hate speech, study finds (Independent via AOL):
https://lnkd.in/dBFeEnGu

Adolescence and Cyberbullying: A Bibliometric Study in the Context of School, Family and Social Network (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/eBz_XJBt

Rethinking Radicalization: Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory as a Framework to Understand Pathways to Political Activism and Radicalization (IDEAS, Repec):
https://lnkd.in/d2QDhzYV

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Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation by Sander van der Linden (Institute for Analytical Sociology):
https://lnkd.in/dhv2kCA8

Anti-Bullying in the Digital Age: How Cyberhate Travels from Social Media to Classroom Climate in Pre-Service Teacher Programmes (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/dqgctCEz

MuLTa-Telegram: A Fine-Grained Italian and Polish Dataset for Hate Speech and Target Detection (CLiC-it 2025):
https://lnkd.in/dvxx_3D7

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Social Media and Internet Portals: From Combating Disinformation to the Rise of Cyber Threats (via ResearchGate):
https://lnkd.in/dbcCc3Si

Sycophantic AI increases attitude extremity and overconfidence (OSF):
https://lnkd.in/dzWC_zZ3 (Landing Page)

Annotating Hate Speech Towards Identity Groups (ACL-BG):
https://lnkd.in/d3G6UeQ4

Hinterwelt@LT-EDI 2025: A Transformer-Based Detection of Caste and Migration Hate Speech in Tamil Social Media (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/dB8jgV3h

On the Interaction of Identity Hate Classification and Data Bias (Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing):
https://lnkd.in/dwptvB4r

In Spanish…
Comparative Analysis of Verified Disinformation by Fact-Checking Platforms During the 2022 and 2023 Constitutional Plebiscites in Chile (Revista de Comuinicación):

Gartner Predicts Enterprise Spending on Battling Misinformation and Disinformation Will Surpass $30 Billion by 2028 (Gartner):
https://lnkd.in/d3E7Yyhh

Artificial Intelligence and Gendered Security (CREST):
https://lnkd.in/dbBRqXS9

Auditing TikTok’s Recommendations: Understanding the Prevalence of Misinformation on the Platform (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/dRJze67h

Assessing the impact of misinformation during the spread of infectious diseases (scientific reports):
https://lnkd.in/db9u-_kn

United We Predict: An Ensemble Learning Approach to Unmask Fake News (NHSJSc):
https://lnkd.in/dgdPFtm9

Pretrained transformers for multimodal fake news detection: Explainability using SHapley Additive exPlanations for contributions from text, image, and image captions (Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence):

https://lnkd.in/dzE7mRcF

‘The Generation of ‘Digital Natives’: How Far-Right Extremists Target Australian Youth Online for Radicalisation and Recruitment’ (GNET):
https://lnkd.in/dSbtBM3Y

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Protect Your Mind: How to Detect Fake News and Protect Yourself from Misinformation (Sustainable Life):
https://lnkd.in/d7KQVsxD

Cognitive Warfare to Dominate and Redefine Adversary Realities: Implications for U.S. Special Operations Forces (sofsupport):
https://lnkd.in/dGJ6DRMt

Information Disorder and Global Politics (via Squarespace):
https://lnkd.in/dkBN64H6

Digital extremism and cyberterrorism. Analysis of online counterterrorism strategies and global inter-cooperation in the Near East Region (Meer):
https://lnkd.in/daUyeFrF

Gendered Narratives and Misogyny as Motivators Towards Violent Extremism: The Case of Far-Right Extremism in the UK and Australia (IDEAS, Repec):
https://lnkd.in/dNYjSJrN

What’s in a Word? Revisiting the Role of Ideology in the Practice of and Scholarship on Countering Violent Extremism (IDEAS, Repec):
https://lnkd.in/dDxyfRsF

Detecting Deception in Disinformation Across Languages: The Role of Linguistic Markers (Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing):
https://lnkd.in/dr5rKiKD

Hate crime rises with religiously-motivated offences at record level (Independent):
https://lnkd.in/d6daQZEV

Video…
Understanding & Countering Climate Change Misinformation and Disinformation (Yale Program on Climate Change Communication):
https://lnkd.in/dAVb2SEu

Solvers@LT-EDI-2025: Caste and Migration Hate Speech Detection in Tamil-English Code-Mixed Text (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/dzzt_m37

Beyond Monolingual Assumptions: A Survey of Code-Switched NLP in the Era of Large Language Models (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/d479YuvD

TikTok’s search suggests misinformation almost 20 percent of the time, says report (mashable):
https://lnkd.in/dg98pCUW

Emerging Trends in Cybersecurity PR: AI, Regulations, and Future Challenges (5W PR):
https://lnkd.in/dedcGSHU

Social media age restrictions hub (eSafety Commissioner, Australian Government):
https://lnkd.in/d_MVS6Nh

National human rights institutions key to counter-terrorism measures in line with human rights, participants say at ODIHR event (OSCE):
https://lnkd.in/dDCDDs3u

A theoretical framework for polarization as the gradual fragmentation of a divided society (communications psychology):
https://lnkd.in/d9WkR9Jc

Social Networks and Resilience (CREST):
https://lnkd.in/dZ8bUYEX

CUET_N317@LT-EDI2025: Detecting Hate Speech Related to Caste and Migration with Transformer Models (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/dUZxdpbQ

Social bias is prevalent in user reports of hate and abuse online (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dSNU8niu

Video…
Why is YouTube allowing banned creators to return? (CBS News):
https://lnkd.in/dEDvPZ3H

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Comment Toxicity using RoBERTa Mode (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey):
https://lnkd.in/dApHN4cX

West Africa Islamic scholars seek law to stop harmful practices fueling terrorism (The Nation, Nigeria):
https://lnkd.in/daxReewd

An Optimization Ensemble Model for the Detection of Fake News (IJASRE):
https://lnkd.in/diaW8jsm

The Proactive Gap: A Scoping Review of Publicly Available LLM-based Browser Extensions and Their Potential to Mitigate Information Disorder (via ResearchGate):
https://lnkd.in/dBhgf-eW

AFP launches National Security Investigations teams to target groups causing harm to social cohesion (Australian Federal Police):
https://lnkd.in/dfe732Qz

Social Media Minimum Age campaign (eSafety Commissioner, Australian Government):
https://lnkd.in/dfiWnZYe

Between Click and Consequence: An Evaluation of Platform Reporting Procedures under the Digital Services Act (DAS NETTZ):
https://lnkd.in/dzS9Gc6J (News)
https://lnkd.in/d_3y-Kg6 (Complete Version in English)
https://lnkd.in/dxswB69s (Short Version in English)

ItsAllGoodMan@LT-EDI-2025: Fusing TF-IDF and MuRIL Embeddings for Detecting Caste and Migration Hate Speech (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/db2DZn_Q

On the Impact of Hate Speech Synthetic Data on Model Fairness (CLiC-it 2025):
https://lnkd.in/d3G7pqKy

Influence of Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Social Media Communication on National Security in Nigeria (Social & Digital Media Discourse):
https://lnkd.in/d-ek86Gd

Study examines role of ethnic press in spread of disinformation (Candid Philanthropy News Digest:
https://lnkd.in/dyuP__9i

No Ads, New Risks? How Political Discourse and the Spread of Extremist Content Might Reshape After Platforms’ Responses to the EU TTPA Regulation (VOX Pol):
https://lnkd.in/dKzH5ddv

Bridging Gaps in Hate Speech Detection: Meta-Collections and Benchmarks for Low-Resource Iberian Languages (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dWk32nYW

Measuring gender-based violence: Data collection and evidence on violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics (UN WOMEN):
https://lnkd.in/dD63vrSY (News)
https://lnkd.in/d4trtwtU (Brief)
https://lnkd.in/dbxDEmed (Report)

The Effect of Self Control on the Toxic Online Disinhibition Effect Among Generation Z Users of Application X (Causalita Journal of Psychology):
https://lnkd.in/e5ePAtG8

Hero or Zero? Meta-Opinion in Terrorist Motivation (Terrorism and Political Violence):
https://lnkd.in/dE55iGyN

From Algorithms to Empathy: Global Leaders Chart Ethical Paths for Education and AI Governance (UNESCO):
https://lnkd.in/daEe3enc

Working Paper 4: Examination of technology -Immersive technologies (Digital Platform Regulators Forum, Australian Government):
https://lnkd.in/d83a-WZc (News)
https://lnkd.in/dNYwBwfB (Working Paper)

The Global Threat of Cartels and Gangs: A Case for Designating Them as Terrorist Organizations (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/d9kfMewD

From Margins to Extremes: Economic Factors, Social Integration and the Radicalisation of European Youth (Journal of Intercultural Studies):
https://lnkd.in/dedjDmrB

A Bibliometric Review of Large Language Model Hallucination (IJRISS):
https://lnkd.in/d_YgJ-5V

Towards Robust and Realible Multimodal Fake News Detection with Incomplete Modality (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dkvcrRaa

PAHO releases new guides to help combat vaccine misinformation (Pan American Health Organization):
https://lnkd.in/dHWEJM_m (News)
https://lnkd.in/dbKKHuaB (A guide for health workers)
https://lnkd.in/dkk4cRG4 (A guide for EPI managers)
https://lnkd.in/dtNZs3WD (Tips for journalists)
https://lnkd.in/dBCWMiCi (A guide for risk communication and community engagement teams)
https://lnkd.in/d_Hjb_xX (A guide for educators)
https://lnkd.in/db2Y2DNv (Tips for content creators)

Why No One Thinks They’re in a Cult (Skeptic):
https://lnkd.in/dBt3zsY4

Transparency Statements Restore Trust & Resiliency (CREST):
https://lnkd.in/dFbfqKu4

A Hybrid Framework for Identifying Fake News and Deceptive Information in Social Media with Mitigation Strategy (UtilitasMathematica):
https://lnkd.in/dMtQdx5G

Tackling online disinformation (European Commission):
https://lnkd.in/exSC9Uku

Experts warn addictive platforms and harmful marketing putting young people at risk (Public Health Communication Centre):
https://lnkd.in/dpAwXQ3Y

Improved Estimation of Check-Worthy Social Media Content Using the Analysis of Commentaries (ACM Digital Library):
https://lnkd.in/dR7M-j7B

Psychological Inoculation: Protecting Freedom of Thought Against Manipulation (Homeland Security Today):
https://lnkd.in/dKeCkY5d

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Helping young people overcome extremism: What works? (SBS Examines):
https://lnkd.in/daiSvA8U

Report explainer: How Security Council discourse drove counter-terrorism expansion at the UN (Saferworld):
https://lnkd.in/d4fM3Nqc

The psychology of virality (Trends in Cognitive Sciences):
https://lnkd.in/dwDJifEr

Video..
YouTube to start bringing back accounts of creators banned for misinformation (CBS News):
https://lnkd.in/dcnmvNpc

Online Hate Is Real! What Is Cyberbullying & How To Fight Back (VPN):
https://lnkd.in/dG48MJxU

Towards Real-Time Fake News Detection under Evidence Scarcity (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dnUeKSYq

Who Drives Misinformation? Key Node Detection with Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (Discovery Science):
https://lnkd.in/dZxnwzhd

Speech delivered by BG Giuseppe De Magistris, CoESPU’s Commandant, on the occasion of the Stability Policing Day 2024 (Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units):
https://lnkd.in/dv57zbEq

HATE-LESS: How AI Can Help Detect Hate Speech (ea Consulting):
https://lnkd.in/dEQC2cnW

Disinformation and Misinformation in Nigeria: Digital Subversion and Democratic Vulnerability in the Information Age (Ebonyi State University Journal of Mass Communication):
https://lnkd.in/dV-7q_Yk

Fact-Checking India: Identifying the Spread of Fake News and Policy Recommendations for Combatting Misinformation (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/dre28m-3

Belief, belonging, and borders: mapping faith, identity, and integration across European cities (Quality & Quantity):
https://lnkd.in/dM5yKMEy

Politically Extreme Individuals Exhibit Similar Neural Processing Despite Ideological Differences (Journal of Intercultural Studies):
https://lnkd.in/dmkZp6eT

Planned Resilience: Are We Setting Ourselves up to Fail? (CREST):
https://lnkd.in/dphPuNwX

Consensus as cooling: a granular gas model for continuous opinions on structured networks (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/d2RBF5hc

Misogyny: More boys are seeing anti-women content online (Bitesize, BBC):
https://lnkd.in/dkJRNrm5

Virtual Worlds, Real Threats: Violent Extremist Exploitation of Roblox and Wider Gaming Ecosystems (GNET):
https://lnkd.in/gZ5TuUxu

Wise@LT-EDI-2025: Combining Classical and Neural Representations with Multi-scale Ensemble Learning for Code-mixed Hate Speech Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/dKh9azgM

SocialHarmBench: Revealing LLM Vulnerabilities to Socially Harmful Requests (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dpSbJcfz

Meta to Halt Paid Political Advertising Across the EU Starting October 6 (Politis, Cyprus):
https://lnkd.in/dA2VKuHe

The War Crime of Spreading Terror (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/d5QmUbYt

How to tackle nude image-sharing among children in schools (internet matters):
https://lnkd.in/db6NMaZq

Injecting Knowledge Graph Embeddings into RAG Architectures: Scalable Fact-Checking for Combating Disinformation with LLMs (CEUR-WS):
https://lnkd.in/dur3sHVs

Leveraging NLP and Sentiment Analysis for ML-Based Fake News Detection with Big Data (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/dwcyhEzN

Everyday Extremism: Molka, Nth Room, and the Infrastructure of Digital Misogyny (GNET):
https://lnkd.in/d_TB8W4x

Information and Misinformation of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Analysis of Local Perception in Delta State, Nigeria (IJRSI. RSIS International):
https://lnkd.in/dw8RKWJg

SSN_IT_HATE@LT-EDI-2025: Caste and Migration Hate Speech Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/diMCCJkx

In the age of false information, we all need a good BS detector. Here’s how to sort facts from harmful fiction (The Guardian):
https://lnkd.in/d6m6cqG4

Audio…
Introducing “Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age” (Long Story Short):
https://lnkd.in/dd65XkQG

Post-truth in practice: evaluating disinformation and its consequences for security decision-making (Cogent Social Sciences):
https://lnkd.in/dZCaWFbB

Findings of the Shared Task Caste and Migration Hate Speech Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/dKWHbwbq

Video…
Truth at Risk: Fighting Back Against Misinformation | Stockholm Food Forum 2025 (EAT):
https://lnkd.in/duniXCKP

Biased Social Media Debates About Terrorism? A Content Analysis of Journalistic Coverage of and Audience Reactions to Terrorist Attacks on YouTube (Social Media + Society):
https://lnkd.in/gwv9sJ32

India, Central Asia discuss boosting cooperation to fight terrorism and radicalisation (sarkaritel):
https://lnkd.in/dZ_Ktj5v

SIP Model and Bifurcation Analysis for Spread of Misinformation in Online Social Networks (I. J. Mathematical Sciences and Computing):
https://lnkd.in/dJKHTnJr

CUET’s_White_Walkers@LT-EDI 2025: Transformer-Based Model for the Detection of Caste and Migration Hate Speech (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/dVmM2bbs

Strategies for Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) by Women’s Civil Society Organizations in Banyumas Regency, Indonesia (3rd ICPSH):
https://lnkd.in/d9ZRybQ6

Automatically Generating Counter-Speech: Opportunities and Challenges of Using LLMs for CVE (CREST Research):
https://lnkd.in/dd4i_dYt

Free chapter…
From “Feminist Lies” to “White Replacement”: Digital Anti-Feminist Forums as Spaces of Collective Radicalization (The Aesthetics of Collective Agency):
https://lnkd.in/dd2Puwb5

European Leagues and Members united against Hate Speech and Online Abuse in Sport (European Leagues):
https://lnkd.in/d5PByKvD

Why Study Non-Radicalisation? (CREST):
https://lnkd.in/dmdXeP2Y

A Critical Analysis of Technological Determinism Theory in the Evolving New Media Concept and Environment (Preprints):
https://lnkd.in/dmMCcqz7

Fake News in the Digital Environment and its Negative Effects on Society (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/drizgQEB

A comprehensive study on Generative AI as a double-edged sword in the digital security landscape (VNSGU Journal of Research and Innovation):
https://lnkd.in/dK9VmGKW

girlsteam@LT-EDI-2025: Caste/Migration based hate speech Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/d3RJkANf

Reshare…
Navigating the Disinformation Maze: A Bibliometric Analysis of Scholarly Efforts (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/dhAsi2_k

Terrorism Feeds On Ignorance And Underdevelopment – OpEd (eurasiareview):
https://lnkd.in/dG7_xjYf

Understanding Misinformation Dynamics: A Machine Learning Analysis for sharing and Belief (NHSJS):
https://lnkd.in/d4p7JfAW

Combating Deepfake Threats Using X-FACTS Explainable CNN Framework for Enhanced Detection and Cybersecurity Resilience (SCIRP):
https://lnkd.in/dSwTuiWq

Quantifying the Engagement Effectiveness of Cyber Cognitive Attacks: A Behavioral Metric for Disinformation Campaigns (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/d9C_9_-r

A scoping review of risk and protective factors for right-wing extremist violence (Aggression and Violent Behavior):
https://lnkd.in/dGsCx4xF

Light of Darkness: An Analysis of ISKP’s Digital Handbook (GNET):
https://lnkd.in/d_dBGW5E

Reshare…
Social media age restrictions hub (eSafety Commissioner, Australian Government):
https://lnkd.in/d_MVS6Nh

Information Pathways and Voids in Critical German Online Communities During the COVID-19 Vaccination Discourse: Cross-Platform and Mixed Methods Analysis (JMIR):
https://lnkd.in/dTumZWGT

Radicalization and Technology-Generated Environments: A Living Scoping Review Protoco (Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2025):
https://lnkd.in/dNVgYReC

Beating Harmful Stereotypes Through Facts: RAG-based Counter-speech Generation (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dQBjU_bT

NS@LT-EDI-2025 CasteMigration based hate speech Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/dsfyxHgY

CUET_Blitz_Aces@LT-EDI-2025: Leveraging Transformer Ensembles and Majority Voting for Hate Speech Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/dM7ratRj

Emojis as a tool of symbolic violence in digital environments (ZAOULI):
https://lnkd.in/dZzq3FmM

The Role of AI in Moderating Online Hate Speech: A Discourse Evaluation (Frontiers in Global Research):
https://lnkd.in/d9kURTau

EM-26@LT-EDI 2025: Caste and Migration Hate Speech Detection in Tamil-English Code-Mixed Social Media Texts (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/d7FVFPTP

Report on the emerging patterns of misuse of technology by terrorist actors (Council of Europe):
https://lnkd.in/dXYcYZbp

The New Wave of Disinformation: How Fake News is Reshaping European Politics (Beat, Vocal Media):
https://lnkd.in/dP-N7xFp

Video…
Arkadiusz Modzelewski – Disinformation: Datasets, Methods and Language Models Evaluation (Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN):
https://lnkd.in/dmA–emX

Rebuilding trust in the media. Connecting with audiences in the information age (Taylor & Francis):
https://lnkd.in/dtHczxfP

Nigeria’s President Tinubu Heads to Rome for Aqaba Process Counter-Terrorism Summit (WAVN):
https://lnkd.in/dR3xuvvG

Media Literacy: Government responds to House of Lords Committee’s Report (Lexology):
https://lnkd.in/dApeH-UB

Testing Theory-Enhanced Messaging to Promote COVID-19 Vaccination Among Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial (JMIR):
https://lnkd.in/dBdcPR5P

Seeing Hate Differently: Hate Subspace Modeling for Culture-Aware Hate Speech Detection (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dEfYbTCQ

Talking About Conspiracy Theories (The University of Manchester e.a.):
https://lnkd.in/dc3AN_yz

Video…
Counterfake: A scientific basis for a policy fighting fake news and hate speech (Smart-EDU Hub):
https://lnkd.in/dA86-zwv

Western Balkan Regulators Call for Stronger Support to Align with European Standards (Council of Europe):
https://lnkd.in/dH_N6env

America Must Regulate Social Media (TIme):
https://lnkd.in/dREbcXzj

Demokratieförderung, Vielfaltgestaltung und Extremismusprävention (Beltz):
https://lnkd.in/dzF373d8

New Words, New Experts: The Emergence of the Radicalization and Violent Extremism Expertise (Journal of Applied Social Science):
https://lnkd.in/dh6GA7-e

Habits and Motivations of Citizens in Receiving and Disseminating Disinformation on Social Media (USC Anneberg):
https://lnkd.in/dUgSU2Xf

AI/Misinformation on Social Media: Users’ Appraisal and Emotional Outcomes of Their Response (asis&t):
https://lnkd.in/dcFe5jzn

Documenting the setbacks: The new environment for counter-disinformation in Europe and Germany (EU Disinfo Lab):
https://lnkd.in/dHz6sXkG

Ideological polarization and the spread of biased or fake news on Facebook are on the rise, according to a study by the UPF (EurekAlert!):
https://lnkd.in/dppww9-8 (News)
https://lnkd.in/ds-wr77s (Paper)

Information and Misinformation of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Analysis of Local Perception in Delta State, Nigeria (RSIS International):
https://lnkd.in/dW8JQKhZ

A Platform ‘Weaponized’: How YouTube Spreads Harmful Content – And What Can Be Done About It (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/dQJqijjF

Addressing Antisocial Behavior in Multi-Party Dialogs Through Multimodal Representation Learning (HAL Open Science):
https://lnkd.in/dCNrVVY5

‘The Generation of ‘Digital Natives’: How Far-Right Extremists Target Australian Youth Online for Radicalisation and Recruitment’ (GNET):
https://lnkd.in/dSbtBM3Y

New study shows widespread AI misinformation (DW):
https://lnkd.in/dEzGC9uj

A Machine Learning Approach to Fake News Detection using Python (IJFMR):
https://lnkd.in/d6m38twu

Understanding News Consumers’ Perceptions of Believability: A Study of Real and Fake News (ACM Human-Computer Interaction):
https://lnkd.in/dbjscpm5

Why Monitoring Social and Online Media Matters (European Union Office in Kosovo European Union Special Representative in Kosovo):
https://lnkd.in/d6dGAMJ3

Communication Games to Study Emerging Disinformation Scenarios With LLMs (CSCW Companion ’25, ACM):
https://lnkd.in/dugQ-SbN

Coded language and memes: how ‘Pop Fascism’ smuggles disinformation and denialism into social media (Maldita.es):
https://lnkd.in/dKFAbJY4

From News Source Sharers to Post Viewers: How Topic Diversity and Conspiracy Theories Shape Engagement With Misinformation During a Health Crisis (ACM Human-Computer Interaction):
https://lnkd.in/dg76WNkx

Beyond words: a hybrid transformer-ensemble approach for detecting hate speech and offensive language on social media (PeerJ Computer Science):
https://lnkd.in/dNGgp7md

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