The investigation provides case studies on Telegram, Discord and Odysee seeking to apply different methodological approaches to analyse platforms that primarily present technological, ethical and legal, difficulties for researchers.
This report presents the key findings of the 2022 project "Countering Radicalisation in Right-Wing Extremist Online Subcultures" funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice.
Im vorliegenden Bericht werden die zentralen Erkenntnisse des vom Bundesministerium der Justiz geförderten Projektes »Radikalisierung in rechtsextremen Online-Subkulturen entgegentreten« aus dem Jahr 2022 vorgestellt.
This report evaluates the second round of the Mayor of London’s Shared Endeavour Fund, a £600,000 civil society funding scheme to support projects addressing hate and extremism.
ISD's investigation found that Etsy, Redbubble and other popular e-commerce sites, are not only facilitating the sale of products promoting hate and extremism, but they are also profiting from these transactions, directly going against their own guidelines.
Dieser Bericht untersucht wie die rechtsextreme Szene die Freie Software PeerTube nutzt, um eigene Videoplattformen zu erstellen. Er beinhaltet eine Netzwerkanalyse des Föderationssystems sowie datengestützte Untersuchung zur Nutzung dieser Videoplattformen. Zudem ordnet der Bericht PeerTube in der weiteren Diskussion um das sogenannte Fediverse ein.
This report is an evaluation the Shared Endeavour Fund, an £800,000 civil society funding scheme supporting projects designed to address intolerance, hate and extremism.
This report provides a summary of the first annual expert conference "Im toten Winkel - Wie Rechtsextreme alternative Online-Plattformen zur Radikalisierung nutzen" (In the blind spot - How right-wing extremists use alternative online platforms for radicalisation), which took place as part of the project "Radikalisierung in rechtsextremen Onlinesubkulturen entgegentreten" (Countering radicalisation in right-wing extremist online subcultures), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ).
Telegram has become the central alternative platform for German language right-wing extremists. Over time, the messenger service has adopted social media functions that turned it into a hybrid platform. The promised anonymity and lack of moderation makes the platform attractive for extremists. This report researches, how the far-right online milieu in the German-speaking world is using Telegram.
This report discusses the context of the ISD research project “Countering Radicalisation in Far-Right Online Subcultures”, which deals with German right-wing extremists and their use of alternative platforms. It gives a historical overview of the German far-right’s online activities, describes methodological foundations and presents a summary of interviews that informed the project’s research.
