Terrorism

Hainikoye hits Accept and a young woman greets him in Hausa, a gravelly language spoken across West Africa’s Sahel region. She has three new cows, and wants to know: Does he have advice on getting them through the lean season? Hainikoye—a twentysomething agronomist who has “followed animals,” as Sahelians refer to herding, since he first learned to walk—opens an interface on his laptop and clicks on her village in southern Niger, where humped zebu roam the dipping hills and dried-up valleys that demarcate the northern…

Anyone active on X (formerly Twitter) since its acquisition by Elon Musk in late 2022 knows that hate speech, misinformation and extremism is rampant on the platform. At this point, such toxic content is simply the price of admission. But a new report from the Tech Transparency Project, a digital research nonprofit, reveals that terrorist leaders have apparently paid for verification badges and premium features on the site, possibly violating U.S. sanctions — as well as X’s own policies. TTP’s report detailed how…

Eric Adams is capping a rocky year by touting his city's ability to attract terrorist attacks Eric Adams loves talking about how New York City is the greatest city in the world, a concrete jungle where dreams are made and there’s nothing you can’t do. The mayor pressed the point again on Sunday, arguing that the city is so full of possibility that its residents could be killed in a terrorist attack on any given day. The strange bit of promotion came during an interview with Pix 11’s Dan…

December 7, 20236 min readFar-right extremists shifted their online hate from Muslims to Jews in 2017, and offline hate followed the same trends By Will Hobbs & Nazita Lajevardi Both anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hate is on the rise in the U.S. Just two weeks after the start of the conflict in Israel and Palestine, hate incidents grew by 400 percent against Jews, and increased by 216 percent over a four-week period against Muslims, compared to the previous year.Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate is surging most…

Bari Weiss realized that her news startup, the Free Press, was attracting a lot of attention with its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war when famous people started citing its work on social media.Music executive Scooter Braun shared a Free Press video about a hostage taken by Hamas. Comedian Chelsea Handler shared on Instagram Free Press’s “Voices from Gaza” video that showed a young Gazan describing Hamas as a barrier that must be removed. Cookbook author Jessica Seinfeldposted a column by Weiss about antisemitism…

For instance, messages sent to an unrestricted channel called OfficialTheCollective, with more than 4,000 members, included tags to restricted channels like SpecialQForces, a QAnon conspiracy channel, and often encouraged users to join.One message posted to OfficialTheCollective even instructs users how to get around Google and Apple’s restrictions, saying, “Google and Apple censoring the Telegram app downloaded via Google Play and Apple App Store. Use the web browser.” The message includes instructions about how to…

Here's a question few of us will ever have to answer. Would you rather have $23 billion living in the United Arab Emirates with no US extradition treaty, or sacrifice a chunk of your wealth and perhaps spend 18 months behind bars to resolve all your issues with the US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission?Binance Holdings Ltd. CEO Changpeng Zhao appears to have chosen the latter. We don't know all the details of the deal — most importantly the length of time, if any, Zhao must spend in prison — but…

TikTok is facing what it views as perhaps its biggest crisis yet, with the world’s most popular app facing an intense backlash over the perception it favors pro-Palestinian and, at times, antisemitic content.Citing anti-Israel posts that surfaced on TikTok since the Gaza conflict began and a decades-old Osama bin Laden letter that circulated this week, Washington lawmakers have renewed calls to ban the app in the U.S.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8…

Relationships between authoritarian predispositions, media attention, and identifying issues as threats. Credit: Politics and the Life Sciences (2023). DOI: 10.1017/pls.2023.12 Those with authoritarian political views are more likely to be concerned about terrorism and border control than a future new health pandemic, new research shows. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research into children convicted of terrorism offenses in England and Wales has revealed a sharp rise in "homegrown" teenage terrorist activity, with extreme-right ideology fueling the majority of cases. Authors, University of Southampton Criminology Lecturer, Dr. Gina Vale, and ISD (Institute…