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ISIS Has a Twitter Strategy and It Is Terrifying [ ...

November 2015

This resource is an informative, visual and descriptive infographic by Fifth Tribe focused in ISIS’s use of Twitter. The infographic and descriptions in the article were written following the Paris attacks in November 2015.

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How ISIS Uses Twitter: Analyze how ISIS fanboys ha ...

May 2016

This resource contains the description and data analysis from a research project conducted by Fifth Tribe into ISIS’s use of Twitter in the aftermath of the 2015 Paris Attacks.

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Umati Final Report

2013

This 44 page resource is the comprehensive final report of the Umati Project that focused on monitoring hate speech online.

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Twitter’s dangerous lack of transparency on terr ...

February 2013

This short 2013 article discusses the free speech vs terrorist propaganda debate in relation to Twitter and various terrorist organizations.

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Al Qaeda Recruits Terrorists on Facebook

December 2010

This very short 2010 article presents an early example of extremist and terrorist organizations using social media for recruitment, in this case, Al Qaeda using Facebook.

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Sub Saharan African Terrorist Groups’ Use of the ...

February 2014

This 2014 article is based on a study of terrorist groups’ use of web technologies in Sub Saharan Africa. The study investigated 245 terrorist groups operating across 45 countries in the Sub Saharan African region as determined by data held within the Global Terrorism Database (GTD).

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Gang Presence in Social Network Sites

2011

This 2011 article provides an insightful look into the presence of gangs on social media and social networking websites.

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Charting Out the Digital Ecosystem of Gangs in the ...

April 2016

This article is based on a research project conducted by the SecDev Group in collaboration with the U.S. National Institute for Justice (NIJ) in San Diego.

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The State of the Art: A Literature Review of Socia ...

November 2013

This article is a seminal piece and a foundational resource in the field of social media analytics and open source intelligence by some of the field’s leading authors.

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State of the Art 2015: a literature review of soci ...

September 2015

This is a foundational report and a seminal work in the study of social media intelligence and open source research. The paper reviews 245 papers in a semi-systematic literature review of how information and insight can be drawn from open social media sources.

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This portal gathers an annotated collection of recent research on the ways in which social media and new technologies may be leveraged in the fight against violent extremism

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