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Information Manipulation in Sudan: A Baseline Assessment of Actors, Narratives and Tactics
Thomson Foundation (2026), 81 pp.
"The destruction of Sudan’s established information infrastructure at the outset of the conflict in April 2023 has created an environment where systematic information manipulation and disinformation campaigns now flourish unchecked. This has intersected with increasing systematic information manip
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Social Processes of Online Hate
London; New York: Routledge (2025), xxiii, 311 pp.
"This book explores the social forces among and between online aggressors that affect the expression and perpetration of online hate. Its chapters illustrate how patterns of interactive social behavior reinforce, magnify, or modify this expression. It also considers the characteristics of social med
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Von Hashtags und Geschichte: Vergangenheitsbezogene Hate Speech und ihre Multimodalität auf TikTok
Publizistik, volume 70 (2025), pp. 261-287
"Die audiovisuelle Plattform TikTok bildet mittlerweile einen relevanten Aushandlungsort für soziale Gruppen aller Art. User*innen bietet sich die Möglichkeit, eigene Räume für Vernetzung zu schaffen und Identitätsmanagement zu betreiben. Aufgrund der Plattformaffordanzen – vor allem Multimod
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A matter of perception? Investigating subjective and objective exposure to hate speech with a survey and mobile longitudinal linkage study
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 21 pp.
"An increasing number of media users report frequent encounters with hate speech on the internet. Content moderation is only effective when the applied criteria align with users’ perceptions of hate speech. To explore what media users perceive as hate speech and which factors influence this percep
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Hate Speech Events in India. Report 2025
Washington, DC: India Hate Lab (IHL); Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) (2025), 111 pp.
"India Hate Lab (IHL) documented 1,318 hate speech events targeting religious minorities, particularly Muslims and Christians, in 2025 across 21 states, one union territory, and the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. On average, four hate speech events occurred per day. This marks a 13% incr
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Climate Politics in Populist Times: Climate Change Communication Strategies in Germany, Spain, and Austria
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xvii, 223 pp.
"This book navigates the neglected territory where far-right populism intersects with climate change, presenting a nuanced examination that transcends traditional research boundaries. In recent decades, Europe has grappled with the surge of far-right and populist movements, fueling robust academic d
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WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech
Deep Insights
New York: New York University Press (2025), vii, 375 pp.
"Known by the popular nickname “ZapZap” in Brazil and synonymous with the Internet across Africa and South Asia, WhatsApp has emerged as a major means of communication for millions of people around the world. Unlike social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, WhatsApp offers a closed, e
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Islamic State, Media, and Ppropaganda: Performances of the 'Visual Caliphate'
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing (2025), xiii, 264 pp.
"Examining hundreds of official propaganda video releases, Khawaja and Kaunert provide a visual longitudinal analysis of IS’ portrayal of its population, territory, governance, and foreign policy, which they term as the ‘Visual Caliphate’. They demonstrate that while IS published its state-lik
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Encrypted Messaging and Extreme Speech: Policy Directions
Munich: Ludwig-Maximilian Universität (LMU); Center for Digital Dignity (2025), 58 pp.
"The report highlights interventions in six main categories, namely: Platform governance; Mitigating digital influence operations; Supporting research; Strengthening fact-checking; Awareness raising and capacity building; Leveraging artificial intelligence responsibly. The recommendations highlight
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The risks and resilience in reporting violent extremism
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 17, issue 2 (2025), pp. 131-147
"This article examines the lived experiences of conflict reporters to unpick the pitfalls and perseverance in journalism practice in dangerous places. It uses the case of covering the Boko Haram conflict to unpack the risks journalists encounter in reporting on violent extremism. Drawing on individu
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Rechtsextreme Meme: Eine praxisorientierte Einführung für die Ausbildung in Polizei und Sozialwissenschaften
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2025), 320 pp.
"Rechtsextreme Weltanschauungen verbreiten sich durch das Internet schon bei Teenagern und stellen die Polizei vor Herausforderungen. Die selbsternannte "Neue Rechte" steht dabei beispielhaft für den steten Wandel der Szene: Sie inszeniert sich als moderne Jugendbewegung, die mit Memen kommuniziert
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Handbuch Gaming & Rechtsextremismus: Voraussetzungen, Einstellungen, Prozesse, Auswege
Deep Insights
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (2025), 354 pp.
"Der Einfluss des Rechtsextremismus im und auf das Gaming ist real und deshalb braucht es fundierte und kritische Analysen – ohne Alarmismus. Denn zum einen sind Gaming-Kulturen zu stark ausdifferenziert, um pauschale Aussagen über sie treffen zu können. Zum anderen ist Rechtsextremismus als Ph
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Ain't no Game: Antisemitism in Gaming and on Social Media
ELNET Deutschland; Combat Antisemitism Movement (2024), 5 pp.
"Antisemitism Surges Online: Antisemitic content on platforms like X spiked by 919 percent following the October 7 Hamas attacks, spreading hate that deeply affects Jewish users, especially the young. Enhanced moderation systems combining AI and human oversight, along with stricter regulations, are
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Die unbequeme Vergangenheit: Vom Umgang mit Staatsverbrechen in Russland und anderswo
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 598 pp.
"Die Sowjetdiktatur war von Staatsverbrechen kaum vorstellbaren Ausmaßes geprägt. Insbesondere gilt dies für die Periode von der Oktoberrevolution 1917 bis zum Tod Josef Stalins 1953: Sie umfasst den Bürgerkrieg, die sogenannten Säuberungen, das Gulag-System und zahlreiche weitere Akte massiver
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Hate Speech FORSA-Studie 2024: Zentrale Untersuchungsergebnisse
Düsseldorf: Landesanstalt für Medien NRW (2024), 24 pp.
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation
Big Data & Society, issue April-June (2024), 13 pp.
"Content moderation algorithms influence how users understand and engage with social media platforms. However, when identifying hate speech, these automated systems often contain biases that can silence or further harm marginalized users. Recently, scholars have offered both restorative and transfor
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Countering violent extremism through internet intermediaries: A typology for cross-country comparison
Global Media and Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2024), pp. 3-22
"This paper examines the counter-violent extremism and anti-terrorism measures in Australia, China, France, the United Kingdom and the United States by investigating how governments leveraged internet intermediaries as their surrogate censors. Particular attention is paid to how political rhetoric l
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Antisemitismus in den Sozialen Medien
Deep Insights
Opladen et al.: Verlag Barbara Budrich (2024), 329 pp.
"Soziale Medien haben die Verbreitung von Antisemitismus revolutioniert. Algorithmisch verstärkt verbreitet sich Antisemitismus auf den Plattformen in Sekundenschnelle, kostenlos und global. Die daraus resultierende Gefahr für Jüdinnen*Juden ist eine große gesellschaftliche Herausforderung. Das
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