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Two Weeks in Soft Security: Free Resources on Countering Extremism, Hate, and Disinformation, July 2025 (I/II)
Browse and read from a list of the 125 most popular LinkedIn resources – including 2 full eBooks and 9 videos – dealing with soft counter-extremism, countering hate speech, and…
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Exploratory Framework: Ideological and Philosophical Constructs with Radical or Extremist Potential
The study of political and philosophical worldviews that may predispose individuals to radical or extremist beliefs remains an under-explored domain within both the social sciences and philosophy. While ideology itself…
Two Weeks in Soft Security: Free Resources on Countering Extremism, Hate, and Disinformation, June 2025 (II/II)
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Deciphering authenticity in the age of AI: how AI-generated disinformation images and AI detection tools influence judgements of authenticity (AI & SOCIETY)
A better understanding of how people judge the authenticity of images is necessary given the rise of AI-generated false content, particularly realistic images used in political disinformation. The current study…
How online misinformation works: a costly signalling perspective (arXiv)
The current chapter examines how reputational incentives that encourage speakers to speak honestly are altered by online communication, especially on social media. It looks at how online environments change the…
