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From Lab Expertise to Chat Interface: The New Risk of Toxin-Level Attacks
A recent report published by the New York Times (NYT) has shown that publicly accessible artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, when tested by biosecurity experts, produced strikingly detailed suggestions on how to acquire genetic material, assemble dange
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Fruit, Vegetable, and Brain Rot: The Use of Generative AI to Produce Violence-Based Viral Trends
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed online culture by making content creation faster, cheaper, and virtually limitless. There are various platforms that, often through a free or low-cost version, allow users to create images or videos, which can
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From the Ground Up: Citizen-Led Counterspeech Against Male Supremacism on Reddit
From the Ground Up: Citizen-Led Counterspeech Against Male Supremacism on Reddit Amidst an increasing awareness of the manosphere's impact in digital environments, research and policy-focused discussions have centred on a pressing need to tackle male supr
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From Blackpill Fatalism to Misanthropy: Unpacking the Motivation of the Schongau School Shooter
Content warning: This Insight contains mentions of suicide, rape, and hateful language. On 8 July 2026, a 16-year-old armed attacker entered his former high school in Schongau, Germany, seriously injuring two 13-year-old girls with a knife before being su
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The Sixth Annual GNET Conference: A Summary of Key Takeaways
On Wednesday, 27 May, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) hosted its Sixth Annual Conference, as part of a joint two-day event alongside the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)'s Global Multi-Stakeholder Forum at King's Co
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Artificial Intelligence and Extremist Capability: How AI Lowers the Barriers Between Intent and Capability
The execution of mass-casualty attacks has historically been more constrained by extremists' capability than by their motivation. Wanting to cause mass harm requires no specialised knowledge, whereas planning and carrying out an attack does. PCVE practiti
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"The New Crusade": What the San Diego Attackers' Manifesto Reveals About Contemporary Radicalisation
On 18 May 2026, 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez and 17-year-old Cain Clark carried out a mass-casualty attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD), the largest mosque in San Diego County. The attack left three people dead before the perpetrators ultimately
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The Montreal Manifesto: An Attempt to Intellectualise Incel Ideology
On the morning of 22 June 2026, police responded to a report of a gun barrel visible in a hotel window in the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood of Montreal, Canada. Ensuing gunfire between police and the perpetrator left one civilian, one police officer, and
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Extremist Music Communities and Online Radicalisation: The Case of the Antioch High School Shooting
On the 22nd of January 2025, Solomon Henderson (17) opened fire inside Antioch High School. He killed fellow student Josselin Corea Escalante (16) and injured one other before turning the gun on himself. Police concluded Henderson "acted alone and had no
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Terrorgram's 'Main Voice': Lessons From a High-Profile Danish Trial
On 20 April 2026, a Danish-French man named Jérémy Meilhac (J.M.) was convicted in a Danish court for his affiliation with the extremist network known as Terrorgram. His involvement centred on producing and circulating extreme right material as a way to p
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