In the 21st century, social media platforms have become famous for communicating ideas, opinions, and emotions. These are influential in reaching out to youth, recruiting, spreading propaganda. Extremist groups now active users of platforms; therefore, it is necessary monitor their activities. Therefore, there an urgent need detect extremism on platforms. Existing research lacks a dedicated dat...

This is the third benchmarking report tracking evolution of online content-sharing services’ policies and procedures for terrorist violent extremist content (TVEC). Fifteen top 50 most popular services now issue TVEC-specific transparency reports, increasing from five in 2020 eleven 2021. edition also examines that disseminate TVEC (“Intensive Services”). Only appear both groups, reflecting bad...

Abstract This paper examines the implications of COVID -19 on violence in traditional East African countries: Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. The asserts that while episodes increased during pandemic, such cannot be understood isolation from local context, which was already volatile before pandemic. sparked existing conflicts different ways: Firstly, it state crimes – as exploited by repressive sta...

There has been a notable increase in support for far-right ideologies across the West. The seriousness of this threat acknowledged by UK government which banned certain groups using terrorism legislation. While criminological theories have useful explaining general criminality, they under-utilised extremism and terrorism. Agnew’s General Strain Theory, hypothesises that negative life events cha...

Research shows that microblogging websites such as Tumblr are being misused as a platform to disseminate hate and extremism. We formulate the problem of locating such extremist communities as a graph search problem. We propose a topical crawler based approach performing several tasks: searching for a blogger, computing its similarity against exemplary documents, filtering hate promoting blogger...