New research mapping the online and real-world activity of the Christchurch attacker provides insights into his radicalisation and the ways others contemplating terrorist violence might act.
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Five years on from the attacks, a detailed investigation of the shooter’s online radicalisation shows he was openly posting about his plans. Why was it missed and what can we learn?
The rise in contemporary right-wing political extremism – and violence – can be traced back to events in the 1990s.
There is a mental and psychological dimension to what leads people to commit mass killings. But it is not mental illness or pathology.
As New Zealand marks the second anniversary of the March 15 atrocity, the general terror threat has increased and doubts persist about police and security agency preparedness.
Memes that promote harmful conspiracies and memes that mock them are sometimes hard to distinguish.
The outdated Microsoft operating system was recently dumped online in a huge leak. Hackers can now scour it for bugs to exploit.
Successful memes don’t often happen by accident. And COVID-19 has become a popular topic for their creators.
Believers of QAnon fringe conspiracy theories have moved into the mainstream political arena, including several who will be running as Republican candidates in the U.S. elections this fall.
Obamagate is strongly linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory – on Twitter these hashtags are frequently used alongside each other.
What connects a cartoon frog, misappropriated mythology and the US’s 45th president?
If news pundits had been paying closer attention to memes, they may have been less shocked by the result of the 2016 US presidential election.
The Politically Incorrect forum is bringing its racist vitriol to a website near you.
In less than a week since actor Emma Watson’s stirring United Nations speech on gender inequality, two big things have happened – but you’ve probably only heard about one of them. The first, which has…
The powerhouse of internet virality, 4chan, has achieved notoriety, and in a spectacular way. The release of hundreds of images claiming to show a pantheon of celebrities in various compromising, or at…
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