Browse and read from a list of the 148 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 second half of December 2024…
The Top 5 resources, as part of the current issue:
- Exploring P/CVE Models in the EU and MENA Region: A Focus on the Jordanian Model (European Commission):
https://lnkd.in/eVfuDgHZ - Predicting Misinformation Beliefs Across Four Countries: The Role of Narcissism, Conspiracy Mentality, Social Trust, and Perceptions of Unsafe Neighborhoods (Journal of Social and Political Psychology):
https://lnkd.in/eg-cbSxE - We Must Understand Why Youth Are radicalized. It’s Not Just Manipulation (Homeland Security News Wire):
https://lnkd.in/eu65_Rus - Indonesia Blocks Over 180,000 Pieces Of Terrorism-linked Content In 2024 (Bernama):
https://lnkd.in/e5bYbJEB - Antifeminist, manosphere and right-wing extremist sentiment among men who use domestic and family violence: masculinism, misinformation, and the justificatory logics of violence (International Journal for Masculinity Studies):
https://lnkd.in/eb2sEviP
Background:
Since 2017, we have filed almost 18,000 shares on LinkedIn to a network of – now – more than 7,300 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 the three websites listed above.
Youth Susceptibility to Radicalization (International Social Science Review):
https://lnkd.in/ez9m6k_b
Enhancing probation services in Kosovo: training probation officers on rehabilitation, reintegration and preparation for release (Council of Europe):
https://lnkd.in/enz6hjXM
Regulatory Challenges of Online Disinformation: Analysis of National Legislation and International Approaches to Disinformation and Fake News (Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental):
https://lnkd.in/e7ijm3PZ
A linguistic analysis of nationality-based hate speech on Facebook : the case of the Italian language (Jagiellonian University Repository):
https://lnkd.in/eZevVwrd
Impact of Artificial Intelligence–Generated Content Labels On Perceived Accuracy, Message Credibility, and Sharing Intentions for Misinformation: Web-Based, Randomized, Controlled Experiment (JMIR Publications):
https://lnkd.in/e3ghN2M9
Principles for Community Development Programming to Address Violent and Hateful Extremism (Journal for Deradicalization):
https://lnkd.in/eDhHrzBz
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Comment qualifier les relations entre les médias sociaux et les processus de radicalisation menant à la violence ? (Quaderni):
https://lnkd.in/exVc4Whc
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Online hate unmasked (DW Documentary):
https://lnkd.in/en8TjiYV
Gender bias detection on hate speech classification: an analysis at feature-level (Neural Computing and Applications):
https://lnkd.in/emsUsJN7
Citizens call for more education on violent extremism in border towns (GhanaWeb):
https://lnkd.in/eJbHrikF
Role of Education in Prevention of Violent Extremism amongst Youth in Kenya (Spring Journals):
https://lnkd.in/e58k6HuD
Social Work Methods and Prevention of Radicalization (Journal for Deradicalization):
https://lnkd.in/eGmd73c9
Indonesia Prepares To Bring Ex-ISIS Families Home – Analysis (eurasia review):
https://lnkd.in/eD_7C7r2
The Correlation Between Misinformation, Outrage, and Social Media Content Sharing (Disinformatino Social Media Alliance):
https://lnkd.in/eX8nQuu4
Identifying and Debunking Disinformation: A Guide for Journalists (Disinformation Social Media Alliance):
https://lnkd.in/ecX-gUCQ
A narrow gateway from misogyny to the far right: empirical evidence for social media exposure effects (Information, Communication & Society):
https://lnkd.in/ehdfMSZJ
Supporting teacher capacities in preventing bullying, violence, and extremism in Albanian schools (Council of Europe Office in Tirana):
https://lnkd.in/efRNBim5
Nearly half of EU youngsters exposed to online abuse, new report finds (euronews):
https://lnkd.in/eupdXQzp
Generative AI & Misinformation (Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence):
https://lnkd.in/g_C_UNEX
CLASP: Contrastive Language-Speech Pretraining for Multilingual Multimodal Information Retrieval (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/eeF6G5A7
Gender-based violence in digital spaces (The Morning, Sri Lanka):
https://lnkd.in/ekcWDvu4
Moderating Maghrebi Arabic Content on Social Media (Center for Democracy and Technology):
https://lnkd.in/e2H4nCQ5
Support model to strengthen schools’ work to prevent violent extremism and school attacks Literature review and conversation guide (cve, Sweden):
https://lnkd.in/gkPKGPXq
Hoax News Detection in Indonesian Political Headlines Using Multinomial Naive Bayes (JITSI):
https://lnkd.in/eCtqPe-f
The Role of AI in Real-Time Moderation for Live Streaming Platforms (ascentt):
https://lnkd.in/d_hyY7BY
Human and LLM Biases in Hate Speech Annotations: A Socio-Demographic Analysis of Annotators and Targets (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/gzntjRMR
Fifth Global Summit: Building Trust for Multi-Actor, Whole-of-Society Prevention (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/e_Y_A3EE
Enhancing Hate Speech Annotations with Background Semantics (IOS Press):
https://lnkd.in/eXcWq3AG
Mitigating the risk of generative AI models creating Child Sexual Abuse Materials (Thorn):
https://lnkd.in/gFEjz4qD
Fake news, misinformation and lack of training are problems facing journalists (Vijesti, Montenegro):
https://lnkd.in/eTsJr3Zc
Investigating the Predominance of Large Language Models in Low-Resource Bangla Language over Transformer Models for Hate Speech Detection: A Comparative Analysis (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/erKs53vJ
The Dangers of AI Mental Health Misinformation (Psychology Today):
https://lnkd.in/e7Nev2SN
Fifth Global Summit: South-to-South Cooperation — Enhancing Cross-Regional Collaboration (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/ejVNqgrY
Balancing Protection and Risk: Australia’s Social Media Ban and the Threat of Youth Radicalisation (Australian Institute of International Affairs):
https://lnkd.in/euZfRvnF
Trauma, Adversity and Violent Extremism: Implications for Risk Assessment (CREST Research):
https://lnkd.in/g5y5Rzgc
OSCE enhances media and information literacy skills to effectively prevent and counter violent extremism (OSCE):
https://lnkd.in/dTSGPY_J
Are We in the AI-Generated Text World Already? Quantifying and Monitoring AIGT on Social Media (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/epmM9Xfy
Combating Disinformation and Fake News: An ASEAN Response Strategy (Disinformation Social Media Alliance):
https://lnkd.in/eEgPvVHd
How AI can help combat mis- and disinformation about migration (World Economic Forum):
https://lnkd.in/eCbh4rdq
‘New Quest Unlocked’: UN experts counter extremism in gaming spaces (United Nations):
https://lnkd.in/eQ8znFC7
Content Moderation (spectrum labs):
https://lnkd.in/eHiNi2s2
Indonesia prepares to bring ex-ISIS families home (East Asia Forum):
https://lnkd.in/e85rxVwm
Detecting Fake News Using Machine Learning (IRJMETS):
https://lnkd.in/e9zR7QM9
Brief Guidance Guide: To Combat Hate Speech on the Internet Through Human Rights Education (UNESCO Clearinghouse on Global Citizenship Education):
https://lnkd.in/eE76EXs6
Disinformation for Hire: A Field Experiment on Unethical Jobs in Online Labor Markets (European Economic Review):
https://lnkd.in/enwu_Gwg
Understanding science and misinformation (illuminem):
https://lnkd.in/ewcex6zg
Top athletes offered AI protection on social media platforms to combat cyber bullying (The Guardian):
https://lnkd.in/grbnDwzr
Violent Conflict and Resilient Urban Spaces in the Global South: Learning from Community Peacebuilding in Jos, Nigeria (Accord, South Africa):
https://lnkd.in/gHFVgazZ
Moderating Kiswahili Content on Social Media (Center for Democracy and Technology):
https://lnkd.in/e3erBh6W
Filtering out the truth from a sea of misinformation (The Business Standard, Bangladesh):
https://lnkd.in/e5-JJeXh
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Teaching media literacy around the world: Best practices from three continents (The International Journalists’ Network):
https://lnkd.in/eVF9sN6V
Home Office to review autism cases in anti-extremism unit (Financial Times):
https://lnkd.in/eHVdwmbT
Who Controls Free Speech on Social Media? (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/eY-Vp_7P
Urgent warning for parents as horrifying trend among kids emerges online (news.com.au):
https://lnkd.in/e6A_8XMA
Artificial Intelligence: High-level Briefing (Security Council Report):
https://lnkd.in/gDptnape
Does ChatGPT show gender bias in behavior detection? (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications):
https://lnkd.in/e6yrVmDD
Social Media Users’ Motives for (Not) Engaging With Hate Speech: An Explorative Investigation (Social Media + Society):
https://lnkd.in/eimG4FnS
New report focuses on the role of research and technology in civil security resilience (European Commission):
https://lnkd.in/eyecKRks (News)
https://lnkd.in/eJj4ZaWM (Report)
Simulated Misinformation Susceptibility (SMISTS): Enhancing Misinformation Research with Large Language Model Simulations (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eKgq92HK
Responsible social media use: how user characteristics shape the actualisation of ambiguous affordances (European Journal of Information Systems):
https://lnkd.in/ejV6hr9G
NGO warns of increased aggression, hate speech in media (N1, Serbia):
https://lnkd.in/d-NZ25st
The Nexus of Strategic Communications, Disinformation, and Violent Extremism (Disinformation Social Media Alliance):
https://lnkd.in/e_G3jB26
The Urgency of Civil Society’s Understanding of Radicalism in South Sumatra (Universitas Bangka Belitung, Indonesia):
https://lnkd.in/eSYT7PEJ
Fake News Detection on Social Media Using Ensemble Methods (Tech Science Press):
https://lnkd.in/ej_M7nwM
Assessing Risks at the Intersection of Climate Insecurity and Violent Extremism: Key Insights and Recommendations from the Dakar Design Workshop (UNICRI):
https://lnkd.in/eGyivkjV
Fifth Global Summit: Good Practices for Strengthening National – Local Cooperation in Prevention and Response (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/eG8P32_K
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Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science (National Academies):
https://lnkd.in/eaMuSf_y
Envy, Emotional Urgency, and Radicalization: The Impulsive Route is Paved in Malice (Terrorism and Political Violence):
https://lnkd.in/eGWSwMWD
UNDP and SWIDA Empower Pido Community to Counter Violent Extremism (SWIDA Ghana):
https://lnkd.in/d4mVT_Zu
Delving into Qualitative Implications of Synthetic Data for Hate Speech Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/evcxqQu8
Analysis of Disinformation Trends in Africa (Disinformation Social Media Alliance):
https://lnkd.in/eB8CfbWb
Kosovo Struggling to Detect Early Warnings of Terrorism, Radicalisation: BIRN Report (BalkanInsight):
https://lnkd.in/gckwZd6r
Adversarial Testing for Generative AI (Google):
https://lnkd.in/esTXeGWJ
The Whole Truth: How to Identify and Combat Misinformation (Precision):
https://lnkd.in/eHe_-mfK
Australia leads the world in setting new standards for online child safety (eSafety Commissioner):
https://lnkd.in/g8a_65jv
Democratic Offense Against Disinformation (Center for European Policy Analysis):
https://lnkd.in/ep3azkMn
Incels: How they are Radicalized, and How to Deradicalize Them (Modern Diplomacy):
https://lnkd.in/eVjT76ig
Systemic solutions urged to counter spread of science misinformation in new report co-authored by Northeastern professor (Northeastern University):
https://lnkd.in/ecE-CvAx
OSCE PA stresses the key role of legislation & education in preventing violent extremism at the 2024 Internet Governance Forum in Riyad (OSCE Parliamentary Assembly):
https://lnkd.in/dFD6DZ53
Information Integrity. The Information Ecosystem in the Digital Age (United Nations):
https://lnkd.in/ecg98b7T
Large-scale analysis of online social data on the long-term sentiment and content dynamics of online (mis)information (Computers in Human Behavior):
https://lnkd.in/eE5mFbdg
The UK Online Safety Act, the EU Digital Services Act and online disinformation: is the right to political participation adequately protected? (Journal of Media Law):
https://lnkd.in/eE4wakMw
Disinformation Identified as the Most Significant Threat to the United States (Disinformation Social Media Alliance):
https://lnkd.in/eUqzB5iX
Mapping online hate: A scientometric analysis on research trends and hotspots in research on online hate (PLOS One):
https://lnkd.in/eYrzgWmK
Responding to Anti-Institutionalism in the Netherlands: Challenges and Opportunities for (Local) Policymakers (ICCT):
https://lnkd.in/ezBd5H4a
Interview…
‘New Quest Unlocked’: UN experts counter extremism in gaming spaces (United Nations):
https://lnkd.in/eQ8znFC7
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Is an act of violence terrorism if there is no underlying coherent ideology? (Borealis):
https://lnkd.in/gXq6RP8W
Disinformation Detection: Developing a Categorical Framework Through Thematic Analysis (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/et8VKbf3
Evaluation of LLM Vulnerabilities to Being Misused for Personalized Disinformation Generation (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/ep_S-edC
AFP launches master certificates for online training on tackling misinformation (AFP):
https://lnkd.in/ehDMtCAZ (News)
https://lnkd.in/eBWTXi2x (Courses)
From single-task to multi-task: Unveiling the dynamics of knowledge transfers in disinformation detection (Information Sciences):
https://lnkd.in/gzQyDGNy
Science Misinformation, Its Origins and Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies Examined in New Report; Multisector Action Needed to Increase Visibility of, Access to High-Quality Science Information (National Academies):
https://lnkd.in/ePzFbSMP
UK’s first Office of Violence Prevention planned for region (West of England):
https://lnkd.in/euyqxXgZ
Romanian Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning and Transformer-Based Approaches (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/drAHNz4x
„Soziale Isolierung“ über TikTok: Islamisten missbrauchen Jugendliche für Terroranschläge in Deutschland (Frankfurter Rundschau):
https://lnkd.in/e98v36Jg
Leveraging Technology’s Role in Combatting Disinformation (JD Supra Perspectives):
https://lnkd.in/eU7kyWae
Taking action against hate speech requires all of us to work together (Republic of Slovenia):
https://lnkd.in/eriwG-GX
The Role of Accounting Information in an Era of Fake News (Journal of Accounting and Economics):
https://lnkd.in/ettAqSNa
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Hate Speech (Cambridge University Press & Assessment):
https://lnkd.in/eHU-je5G
High-Level Regional Forum on the IGAD Regional Cooperation and Coordination Mechanism (RCCM) Against Transnational Security Threats (TSTs) Statute and Operationalisation (IGAD):
https://lnkd.in/e2inu4ry
Building resilience in the civil security domain based on research and technology (German Prevention Congress):
https://lnkd.in/eqd6J4a6 (News)
https://lnkd.in/eJj4ZaWM (Report)
Polarization and hate speech based on fuzzy logic and transformers: the case of the 2023 Spanish general elections (Ideas, Repec):
https://lnkd.in/egH9RFU3
Towards Efficient and Explainable Hate Speech Detection via Model Distillation (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/etRuWj6P
Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science (National Academies):
https://lnkd.in/eaMuSf_y
YIAVHA Nigeria Joins Pcve Kirh Cop To Reflect On The Pcve Journey (YIAVHA Nigeria):
https://lnkd.in/eZFHf5X7
Interview…
Holistic Regulatory Approaches Rooted in Community Collaboration Can Better Regulate Extreme Speech (Center for the Study of Organized Hate):
https://lnkd.in/e8mqT3Bx
UK Counter-Terrorism and Multiple and Complex Needs: A Policy-Informed Discourse Analysis (European Journal for Security Research):
https://lnkd.in/e-QgJXUT
How artificial intelligence can be weaponized for harassment (Global Voices advox):
https://lnkd.in/eBWChaPm
Fake News Detection: Comparative Evaluation of BERT-like Models and Large Language Models with Generative AI-Annotated Data (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/epGsRZuK
Getting beyond the fact-check (Nieman Lab):
https://lnkd.in/ejqCXYy5
Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists (VOX Pol):
https://lnkd.in/gmVBGw2d
Government outlines new action to tackle radicalisation (GOV.UK):
https://lnkd.in/dyYfjzEY
BIRN Kosovo Presents Report on Challenges to Terrorism Prevention Strategy (BIRN):
https://lnkd.in/eAVNMSMq
Concerns over children accessing extremist material online (Australian Federal Police):
https://lnkd.in/eYiwEQmX
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EP 46 | The Disinformation Frontline: Lessons from Irish and European practitioners (European Movement Ireland):
https://lnkd.in/gCS4G5au
Disinformation in the Digital Age: Impacts on Democracy and Strategies for Mitigation (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/eB5UUR5J
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SIGNAL Media’s Disruptive by Design: Disinformation—The Influence of Foreign Actors (AFCEA International):
https://lnkd.in/eXuaPH_j
Hate Speech Detection Using Glove Word Embedding And Gated Recurrent Unit (JUTIF, Indonesia):
https://lnkd.in/eb-BGAxZ
From Belief to Hate. An Analysis of the Beliefs That Support the Hate Speech Towards Migrants and Refugees Spread on Twitter from the Theory of Reasoned Action (Tripodos):
https://lnkd.in/eTQtTmHE
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Can Democracies Play Offense on Disinformation? (The Lawfare Podcast):
https://lnkd.in/e4i99vAX
Programme for government should include ‘turning off toxic recommender systems’ (Breaking News, Ireland):
https://lnkd.in/epfnbhNN
Subjective isms? On the danger of conflating hate and offence in abusive language detection (The University of Edinburgh):
https://lnkd.in/eq9sX-EQ
Would you know if your kid was being radicalised online? (9News, Australia):
https://lnkd.in/eGneDp9k
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Uniting against hate speech, hate crimes and discrimination in Europe (SYMBIOSIS):
https://lnkd.in/eUGvaZ7B
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Online abuse and its effect on politics (cpac, Canada):
https://lnkd.in/gbtGSzsn
Immune Opportunities Against Hate Speech (Algerian Scientific Journal Platform):
https://lnkd.in/enaXMiJU
Reading the Systemic Risk Assessments for Major Speech Platforms: Notes and Observations (Tech Policy Press):
https://lnkd.in/gnYXrxcj
Detection and Classification of fake news on Social Media Application (JETIR):
https://lnkd.in/ekkcJjPF
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2025: European Year of Digital Citizenship Education (Council of Europe):
https://lnkd.in/eqEhZ28C
Evaluating ‘Transnationalism’ as an Analytical Lens for Understanding REMVE Terrorism (Combating Terrorism Center at West Point):
https://lnkd.in/eiv_GZEA
The Disinformation Market: Battling Fake News In Finance (Forbes):
https://lnkd.in/eG28kQcv
Do you believe it? Examining user engagement with fake news on social media platforms (Technological Forecasting and Social Change):
https://lnkd.in/eqk63zCe
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Social Media and Domestic Radicalization (Justice Today, U.S. NIJ):
https://lnkd.in/eZqBaxmK
Position Paper | Social media aids the rise in the populism with the potencial to destabilize democracy (AEGEE):
https://lnkd.in/eM-EYPaV
Deadline changed as tech firms grapple with Australia’s age check and social media ban laws (The Guardian):
https://lnkd.in/gVqDgtnG
Experiments show power-motivated social media users disproportionately spread misinformation (Phys.org):
https://lnkd.in/e3Vekd8w
Fact-checking and related Risk-Mitigation Measures for Disinformation in the Very Large Online Platforms: A systematic review of the implementation of big tech commitments to the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation (European Fact-Checking Standards Network):
https://lnkd.in/eiYtEdnt
Free eBook…
Praxisempfehlungen Demokratieförderung und Radikalisierungsprävention. Beschreibung und Bewertung von Maßnahmen der entwicklungs-orientierten Prävention (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena):
https://lnkd.in/ePhqYuy2
Systemic solutions needed to counter spread of science misinformation, says new report (Phys.org):
https://lnkd.in/eqARUrFE
Strength in unity: collaborative efforts against health misinformation in the Pacific (World Health Organization):
https://lnkd.in/ef9xKRxu
Free articles and analyses on soft counter-extremism, against hate, and on the theory of mis-/disinformation:
counter-terrorism.org
preventhate.org
strategism.org
Recent LinkedIn posts with summaries on the above subjects:
https://lnkd.in/eBarZAew
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