Browse and read from a list of the 160 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 September 2025…

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

1. Roblox, one of the world’s most popular gaming platforms, bans hate speech. Users have found a way to spread it anyway (CBS NEWS):
https://lnkd.in/d85bYqhJ

2. Malaysia Removes Over 40,000 AI-Generated Disinformation Posts Amid Deepfake Scam Surge (Complete AI Training):
https://lnkd.in/d4JCzeVx

3. Crime, Terror and Insecurity in Mozambique A Bottom-Up Analysis of Local Perceptions (RUSI):
https://lnkd.in/eGKtkK8E

4. Fake News on Social Media and Its Effects on Public Opinion (International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research):
https://lnkd.in/d-uF4Xdu

5. NCITE Briefing: The Annunciation Attack and Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NCITE):
https://lnkd.in/d8-UehXH

6. Report, video…
Missing Connections: Crime-Enabled Terrorism Financing in Europe (RUSI Europe & Project craaft):
https://lnkd.in/dTVANwZy (Report)
https://lnkd.in/dycxJPSG (Video)

7. Analyzing Religious Framing Used by Political Actors Online (Cyberworld Insight):
https://lnkd.in/ezyEaWhf

8. Online hate speech mirrors language in Cluster B personality disorder forums (PsyPost):
https://lnkd.in/du8HRC-Q (News)
https://lnkd.in/eEuxTwR5 (Study)

9. Addressing Hate and Disinformation (Online Hate Prevention Institute):
https://lnkd.in/djbXdh5t

10. Journalists’ Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence and Disinformation Risks (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/dWjxtAJk

Background:

Since 2017, we have filed about 22,000 shares on LinkedIn to a network of – now – more than 8,400 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…

Ideology and Cognitive Complexity in Terrorism: Insights from a Terrorist Rehabilitation Program (Terrorism and Political Violence):
https://lnkd.in/diCvCeCw

Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing – What you need to know (Legal Practice Board of Western Australia):
https://lnkd.in/d4iRMZTU

How to spot misinformation online (Times Higher Education):
https://lnkd.in/dwU7jttt

Breaking the chains of radicalisation in Northern Nigeria (blueprint, Nigeria):
https://lnkd.in/dG-TQsMk

How to safeguard media freedom and strengthen civic resilience: A German example (The NEWS Minute):
https://lnkd.in/dzRHtRSz

Online Gaming, Security, and Regulation in India: Analysing the New Act (Observer Research Foundation):
https://lnkd.in/dCpeHTxh

Radicalisation and other risks for youngsters – and how to navigate them (RTL TODAY):
https://lnkd.in/dX3ZSiJf

Speculative risks of effectively combating misinformation: echo chambers and self-censorship (Synthese):
https://lnkd.in/dNGH28ZQ

Project to promote social cohesion, peacebuilding in northern Ghana in the offing (Ghana News Agency):
https://lnkd.in/dFKcMutU

Assessing Attitudes Towards Hate Crime: Adaptation and Validation of the Hate Crime Beliefs Scale (PsychOpen):
https://lnkd.in/dcp-WAAZ

The Costs of Targeted Violence and the Value of Investing in Prevention (Homeland Security Today):
https://lnkd.in/dEym97xD

Radicalization Pathways in the Online Context: Accounting for User Trajectories Across Extremist Spaces (The University of Arizona):
https://lnkd.in/dU7_qB2e

Ghana: Community policing and prevention of violent extremism training (COGiNTA):
https://lnkd.in/dNndA6_g

LLM-based Contrastive Self-Supervised AMR Learning with Masked Graph Autoencoders for Fake News Detection (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dWeFk9Av

Testing Large Language Models (LLMs) for disinformation analysis – what I learnt from a PROMPT zero-shot experiment (European Journalism Observatory):
https://lnkd.in/dDGai3au

XI Regulatory Issues of Hate Speech in Austria – An Exemplary Regulatory Model in Europe (REAL eprints):
https://lnkd.in/ddisT8ZY

A Safety by Design Governance Approach to Addressing AI-Facilitated Online Harms (Tech Policy Press):
https://lnkd.in/dX6xERyV

Critical digital literacy: A key competency in combating hate speech and disinformation (bianet):
https://lnkd.in/dieftBWc

Transfer Learning via Lexical Relatedness: A Sarcasm and Hate Speech Case Study (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/ddD3hW4p

A Fake News Detection Method Tailored for Financial Regulatory Agencies (Computational Economics):
https://lnkd.in/dpBHtKmw

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

College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened (The Conversation):
https://lnkd.in/dEt97_V3

Transformation of UK Counter-Terrorism Policy Post-9/11: Balancing Security, Liberty, and Emerging Threats (The Jahangirnagar Review: Part II: Social Science):
https://lnkd.in/d_pDqjQv

Impact of Deepfake Technology on Social Media: Detection, Misinformation and Societal Implications (The Eurasia Proceedings of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics):
https://lnkd.in/dqnCb2kV

Emotional and Social Barriers to Engaging in Misinformation Correction on Social Media: A Qualitative Study (American Journal of Arts and Human Science):
https://lnkd.in/dE7mij43

Extremists are targeting young Australians who crave belonging. What can we do? (The Australia Today):
https://lnkd.in/dS3tizuV

AI chatbots are creating more hateful online content: Researchers (ABC News):
https://lnkd.in/d5axtePX

Evidence Review on Poverty and Youth Crime and Violence (Youth Endowment Fund):
https://lnkd.in/ddQkjqPz

Fake News Detection: A Comprehensive Taxonomy of Text, Image, Video, and Multi-Modal Techniques (Alkadhim Journal for Computer Science):
https://lnkd.in/dKkUyiSn

A Symbolic Adversarial Learning Framework for Evolving Fake News Generation and Detection (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dBgtVFa4

Empowering sentiment analysis in social media: a comprehensive approach to enhance the classification of abusive Tamil comments using transformer models (Journal of Big Data):
https://lnkd.in/dX_vKkFu

Proceedings of the The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/dV4BHs7E

The Ethics of Deepfakes: A Digital Age Crisis (International Journal of Legal Science and Innovation):
https://lnkd.in/dpfXKkMT

Unifying the Extremes: Developing a Unified Model for Detecting and Predicting Extremist Traits and Radicalization (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dwrdUJsV

Countering Identity-Based Disinformation Through Positive Narrative Expansion (ICCT):
https://lnkd.in/dcnX6xuC

Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content (Global Investigative Journalism Network):
https://lnkd.in/dy2Q9MPt

Tech Against Terrorism Supports Over 1000 London Students and Teachers To Counter Online Extremism (Tech Against Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/eJcRsJQN

Bangla Fake News Detection Using NLP (Preprint via ResearchGate):
https://lnkd.in/diNy98Wj

Can Correction Messages Reduce the Spread of Fake News on Social Media? The Impact of Information Updates on the Effectiveness of Corrections (Journal of Management Information Systems):
https://lnkd.in/dsukE6f6

A hybrid deep learning and differential evolution approach for accurate fake news detection (Systems and Soft Computing):
https://lnkd.in/djgc_C6a

What Effect does Ideological Extremism have on Mass Shootings? An Assessment of Motivational Inconsistencies, Risk Profiles, and Attack Behaviors (Terrorism and Political Violence):
https://lnkd.in/dvd8FpQu

Newsroom Management in the Post-Truth Era: Phenomenological Inquiry of Data Journalism Adoption in Navigating the Flood Waters of Fake News among Select Broadcast Media Stations in Nigeria (JETIR):
https://lnkd.in/ddcikPPi

MM-HSD: Multi-Modal Hate Speech Detection in Videos (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/gxPnK62Y

Zur Bedeutung der sozialen Kompetenz für die innere Sicherheit und den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt (forum kriminalprävention):
https://lnkd.in/dCs9zhu9

Research Brief: Young People, Content Effects, and Current Content Moderation Practices (Boston Children’s Hospital):
https://lnkd.in/dw6DZ_A5

Free working paper…
Countering Anti-Democratic Masculinities: State of the Art of Evidence-Based Interventions Deliverable D5.1 (MEN4DEM):
https://lnkd.in/d3WkwUdT

Temporal Bias and Psychological Susceptibility to Misinformation: A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Synthesis (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/dx8aCQ8c

Violent Extremism: FG Sets To Relaunch Counterterrorism Strategy (New Telegraph, Nigeria):
https://lnkd.in/dpPw2Sjk

The Crime-Terror Nexus: Technology as Impact Factor (Tech Against Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/dfb764eR

The Impact of Policy (Il)Legitimacy on Interagency Collaboration and Trust: Differential Impact on CVE Professionals in Denmark (Terrorism and Political Violence):
https://lnkd.in/dXWmbC7P

Voices and Boundaries: Navigating Free Speech and Hate Speech in a Constitutional Democracy (The Legal Quorum):
https://lnkd.in/drsAzUZA

Mayor announces fresh investment to fight hate crime and extremism in London (Mayor of Lindon):
https://lnkd.in/eY4KvRCz

Fake News Detection Using Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Review (International Journal of Research and Development in Applied Science and Engineering):
https://lnkd.in/dxv5DTFJ

Online misinformation and disinformation: No easy answers or quick fixes (The Morning, Sri Lanka):
https://lnkd.in/d45fZncc

An exploration into how print and online news journalists manage political fake news in Ireland (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/dUFY2igc

Video…
Contrarian X PERIL: Marylin Rodriguez on preventing extremism in universities (PERIL):
https://lnkd.in/d62uxr6i

Office shooter’s rampage shows terrifying rise of motive-free violence, experts warn (FOX NEWS):
https://lnkd.in/dvW6c_up

Specializing General-purpose LLM Embeddings for Implicit Hate Speech Detection across Datasets (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/gRYHjMy4

Personality Traits of Individuals at Risk of Social Media Radicalisation (VOX Pol):
https://lnkd.in/dEiuCGFY

Beyond Dataset Creation: Critical View of Annotation Variation and Bias Probing of a Dataset for Online Radical Content Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/dkyc4Dnq

AI Chatbots: When Artificial Intelligence Gets Hateful – The Dark Side Unleashed (Open Tools):
https://lnkd.in/ditHrKRq

KI & Fake News: Wie künstliche Intelligenz gleichzeitig zur Gefahr und Lösung wird (Media Lab Bayern):
https://lnkd.in/djKx9Xf2

A Natural Language Processing Powered Approach for Identify Inappropriate Language on Twitter (International Journal of Computer Networks and Wireless Communications):
https://lnkd.in/dtJ3zndy

In Survey of Readers of German Newspaper, AI-Driven Misinformation Found to Lower Trust, but Also to Raise Engagement with Trustworthy News Sources (Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College):
https://lnkd.in/dxThcMuk

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Combat Fake News (RedFame Studies in Media and Communication):
https://lnkd.in/d7nEtRai

“Even I believed it! How is it possible?” The disinformation exam of journalists in the AI age: fuzzy logical approach (Journal of Computational Social Science):
https://lnkd.in/dUbjM7KG

Navigating the margins of radicalization: intersectionality of gang affiliation and terror extremism (British Journal of Interdisciplinary Research):
https://lnkd.in/deWKYvFs

Generative AI and Four Types of Deception (Blog of the APA):
https://lnkd.in/diuVsaun

Safe and Unsafe Information: Managing Risks in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Proceedings of the 35th European Safety and Reliability and the 33th Society for Risk Analysis Europe Conference):
https://lnkd.in/deeTwKdM

The Web of Influence: How Online Culture is Reshaping How Security Practitioners Conduct Assessments (Security Management):
https://lnkd.in/dgnE3cjy

Lived Experience and Messenger Credibility: A Replication Study on P/CVE Messenger Credibility in Germany (Studies in Conflict & Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/dtfha94A

Combatting the persuasive effects of misinformation: Forewarning versus debunking revisited (New Media & Society):
https://lnkd.in/d2rahX6S

Cascading falsehoods: mapping the diffusion of misinformation in algorithmic environments (AI & Society):
https://lnkd.in/dqmYXFv4

The Western practice of fact-checking: from enacting epistemic certainty to performing epistemic mediation? (SocArXiv Papers):
https://lnkd.in/dvqR6gMe

SAFER: SEAN-CSO Empowerment to Counter Online Hate in Southeast Asia (SEAN-CSO):
https://lnkd.in/dmx3jktH

Building Community, Spreading Hate: Extremism, Hate, and Arma 3 (GNET):
https://lnkd.in/dB-yvh72

Detection of Cyber Harassers on Social Media (IJETRM):
https://lnkd.in/djjjUTKi

Detecting Hope, Hate, and Emotion in Arabic Textual Speech and Multi-modal Memes Using Large Language Models (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dhBwJDPG

SupTech can make anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism supervision more effective, the EBA finds (neopay):
https://lnkd.in/d2k9XUwd (News)
https://lnkd.in/dA24BS57 (Report)

Online Hate Speech, Cyberbullying and the ECtHR : Toward a Common European Standard? (Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law):
https://lnkd.in/drmVtmQa

Working with religion in social work: lessons from prevention of violent extremism (Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought):
https://lnkd.in/esFDxFS3

Speculative risks of effectively combating misinformation: echo chambers and self-censorship (Synthese):
https://lnkd.in/dFKzpP5D

Detect, Investigate, Judge and Determine: A Knowledge-guided Framework for Few-shot Fake News Detection (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/d29-xWiw

Nihilistic online networks groom minors to commit harm. Her son was one of them (NPR):
https://lnkd.in/dgjKib2R

Detection of Cyber Harassers on Social Media (IJETRM):
https://lnkd.in/dhc3sYy5

Enhancement of Profanity Filtering and Hate Speech Detection Algorithm applied in Minecraft Chats (Technoarete):
https://lnkd.in/d3sm5wNB

Greece: Disinformation report on the emergence of deepfake scams on Facebook (MedDMO):
https://lnkd.in/d_-9Jb2Q

Video…
Audio Description I Justice Reporter – Hate on the Internet (Rádio e TV Justiça):
https://lnkd.in/d_s7QA8t

Mitigating radicalization in recommender systems by rewiring graph with deep reinforcement learning (Online Social Networks and Media):
https://lnkd.in/dWNmNGAH

Nigeria plans framework for AI adoption in governance (The Guardian, Nigeria):
https://lnkd.in/dSUcKR7Z

Brussels effect or experimentalism? The EU AI Act and global standard-setting (Internet Policy Review):
https://lnkd.in/dZ5eCaKa

What if we could vaccinate against mis- and disinformation? (BBC):
https://lnkd.in/g_uJhSY5

AI Image Detection through Human-Centered Training Methods (American Journal of Student Research):
https://lnkd.in/d8Avazvk

Doctors worry that patients are increasingly exposed to medical misinformation (ConsumerAffairs):
https://lnkd.in/dk2ym2G2

Deep learning for fake news detection on social networks (Macquarie University Research Data Repository):
https://lnkd.in/du9XsBCS

Book review…
Predators, Posers & Pained Personalities: Defensible and Effective Strategies to Prevent Targeted Violence (Homeland Security Today):
https://lnkd.in/djcmprHM

The corporate cost of misinformation (World Finance):
https://lnkd.in/d9dZyjtU

Video…
Building strong, safe & inclusive communities (Centre for Resilient & Inclusive Societies):
https://lnkd.in/d6VZAAGz

Punishing evil and promoting good: the moderating role of subject reputation in the effect of emotion on sharing debunking information (humanities and social sciences communications):
https://lnkd.in/di9SQgeP

Group launches platform to combat violent extremism among youth (Premium Times, Nigeria):
https://lnkd.in/d5c3S2rc

CTEC Releases Paper on How the Internet Fuels Lone Actor Political Violence (Homeland Security Today):
https://lnkd.in/dVnuBXQa (News)
https://lnkd.in/dTFNxUFn (Paper)

Towards Contextualised Deep Learning Based Cyberbullying Detection (Macquarie University):
https://lnkd.in/dGGdrHev

How misinformation spreaders reframe news from reputable sources to support false claims (Phys.org):
https://lnkd.in/dnRHMrHS

Building Resilience to Misinformation in Europe (moonshot):
https://lnkd.in/dfAqMq-A

Detecting Hope, Hate, and Emotion in Arabic Textual Speech and Multi-modal Memes Using Large Language Models (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dhBwJDPG

Free online course in German…
Hate Speech resilient begegnen. GaReX | Gaming und Rechtsextremismus (Violence Prevention Network):
https://lnkd.in/di998rjp (Kurs)
https://lnkd.in/dg–c3uH (Broschüre)

To Hate or not to Hate : Regulation of Hate Speech and Cyberbullying in Romania (Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law):
https://lnkd.in/d2KwjgxU

Souveränismus und Anti-Authority Extremism begegnen. Ein Leitfaden für Berater*innen, Behörden und Poliz (modus | zad):
https://lnkd.in/dpV-DTgB

Finland: where Prevention Starts in Schools (Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law):
https://lnkd.in/dPysBQZs

Emotional and Social Barriers to Engaging in Misinformation Correction on Social Media: A Qualitative Study (American Journal of Arts and Human Science):
https://lnkd.in/ddcpPyDg

Key Take-Aways from the EDMO Training Series on Health Disinformation (EDMO):
https://lnkd.in/etYFvcdK

Propaganda to Hate: A Multimodal Analysis of Arabic Memes with Multi-Agent LLMs (Hugging Face):
https://lnkd.in/dHHDCe5B

Disinformation as Coercion. Can International Laws Regulate Disinformation? (VIDHI):
https://lnkd.in/dYJ_Zsrx

Video…
Why ‘manosphere’ content is appealing to some young men (PBS NEWS):
https://lnkd.in/dKs_AmfZ

Evaluating Machine Learning Algorithms for Detecting Online Text-based Fake News Content (International Journal of Computer and Information System):
https://lnkd.in/dNapQyub

On a Model of Rumors Spreading Through Social Media (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/dr8hD3un

Detecting Linguistic Characteristics of Political Disinformation in Indonesian Social Media: Insights From Systemic Functional Linguistics (JLTR, Academy Publication):
https://lnkd.in/dTBXWJdb

Video…
Joint Terrorism Task Forces and the Preventive Model of U.S. Counterterrorism (Program on Extremism at GWU):
https://lnkd.in/d2dm4ASf

Analysis of Key Risk Factors in the Youth Information Environment (European Journal of Pedagogical Initiatives and Educational Practices):
https://lnkd.in/d7RwgftM

Instagram adds ‘false information’ labels to prevent fake news from going viral (Mashable):
https://lnkd.in/dRR2tN6K

Digital Radicalization: How Social Media Algorithms Amplify Terrorist Recruitment in Northern Nigeria (VOX Pol):
https://lnkd.in/dGu6Jaha

ConspirED: A Dataset for Cognitive Traits of Conspiracy Theories and Large Language Model Safety (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/dnJBNYFd

Executive Summary: Impact and Process Evaluation of Parenting Debates to Prevent Radicalisation (ICCT):
https://lnkd.in/eT998iAR

Decoding Disinformation: A Feature-Driven Explainable AI Approach to Multi-Domain Fake News Detection (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/dVSiUzJg

Burnt out and radicalized: How workplace exhaustion breeds extremist thinking (Medical Xpress):
https://lnkd.in/dnH7e-sp

The dark side of Iraqi social media: How anonymity and “tahsheesh” fuel violence (Shafaq):
https://lnkd.in/dTtCJexx

Oppose gendered disinformation in our digital public square (Monitor, Uganda):
https://lnkd.in/drH7rgZc

Briefing on the early warning system and its role in mapping risks and threats across Africa (Amani Africa):
https://lnkd.in/dYJBAhQ8

Tinubu to unveil revised counter-terrorism strategy in October, says NCTC (TheCable):
https://lnkd.in/dASYZvwX

Debunking assumptions about disinformation: Rethinking what we think we know (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society):
https://lnkd.in/ePugintB

MARS:A Metaphor-aware Adaptive Representative Synthesis Framework for Implicit Hate Speech Detection (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/d-jhjbxj

Specializing General-purpose LLM Embeddings for Implicit Hate Speech Detection across Datasets (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/gRYHjMy4

Violent Extremism: FG Set to Unveil New Counter Terrorism Strategy (PR Nigeria):
https://lnkd.in/dJcSKhUZ

Inside Terrorgram. The Rise and Fall of an Online Hate Network (ProPublica):
https://lnkd.in/e-sivwGD

Hate Speech, Cyberbullying and the Difficulty of Detecting Crime in Online Space : The Example of the United Kingdom (Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law):
https://lnkd.in/dRn47EgB

Network-Based Hateful Communication Recognition System (IJSREM):
https://lnkd.in/dpbN4GHh

The Political and Military Dimensions of Countering Extremism in West Africa: A Study of Nigeria (African Journal of Stability & Development):
https://lnkd.in/dxdvK6-R

Voting Integrity Messages Fight Misinformation in the Lab. But What about the Real World? (Scientific American):
https://lnkd.in/drebx5AQ

Combating disinformation needs human-led, AI-enabled disruption (EURACTIV):
https://lnkd.in/dEP8hTnZ

Hate Speech and Cyberbullying in Belgium: Critical Update Required (Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law):
https://lnkd.in/dPKD_pQj

New Challenges, new Laws: Tackling Hate Crimes and Cyberbullying in Ireland (Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law):
https://lnkd.in/dY-9WSdJ

Different vaccination debunking interventions: a randomized, controlled experiment estimating “backfiring” and positive effects (Vaccine):
https://lnkd.in/dvbq_Pk4

Prebunking and credible source corrections increase election credibility: Evidence from the US and Brazil (ScienceAdvances):
https://lnkd.in/d_TVmJrF

Spotting online radicalisation (CPD Online College):
https://lnkd.in/dQdKb37F

Extremism a development challenge, not just terrorism — PAVE Network (Vanguard, Nigeria):
https://lnkd.in/dxZt8iH9

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