Transparency reporting on terrorist and violent extremist content online 2022

Violent extremist group ecologies under stress

Violent extremist groups are currently making intensive use of Internet fora for recruitment to terrorism. These fora are under constant scrutiny by security agencies, private vigilante groups, and hackers, who sometimes shut them down with cybernetic attacks. However, there is a lack of experimental and formal understanding of the recruitment dynamics of online extremist fora and the effect of...

Public Reporting and Transparency

Interest in collecting and publicly reporting information about the cost and quality of health care has been growing. Yet questions remain about the accuracy of reported price, process, and outcome information; the comparability of results across different populations; and whether and how patients and others use the information to make decisions. Advocates for public reporting argue that it wil...

Extreme Overvalued Beliefs: How Violent Extremist Beliefs Become “Normalized”

Extreme overvalued beliefs (EOB) are rigidly held, non-deusional beliefs that are the motive behind most acts of terrorism and mass shootings. EOBs are differentiated from delusions and obsessions. The concept of an overvalued idea was first described by Wernicke and later applied to terrorism by McHugh. Our group of forensic psychiatrists (Rahman, Resnick, Harry) refined the definition as an a...

Content Analysis of Jihadi Extremist Groups' Videos

This paper presents an exploratory study of jihadi extremist groups’ videos using content analysis and a multimedia coding tool to explore the types of videos, groups’ modus operandi, and production features. The videos convey messages powerful enough to mobilize members, sympathizers, and even new recruits to launch attacks that will once again be captured and disseminated via the Internet. Th...

Additional Guidance on Aftercare and Reintegration Programmes for Violent Extremist Offenders