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Online Domestic Extremism in Canada Data Briefing (Dec 2025-Feb 2026)

Recurring data briefing tracking violent-extremist activity across major platforms in Canada; consistently finds Telegram the leading platform for such activity.

Amplifying Antisemitism: How Recommender Algorithms Serve Harmful Content to Children

Using 10 simulated 15-year-old accounts (5,500+ videos), teens were exposed to antisemitic content within hours; TikTok pathways escalate from mainstream to neo-Nazi content while Rumble surfaced overt antisemitism from the outset.

Online Hate & Harassment Targeting Public Figures and Influencers on Instagram in Jordan

Analyzes the scale and nature of hate and harassment directed at public figures and influencers on Instagram in Jordan.

Generative AI and the German Far Right: Narratives, Tactics and Digital Strategies

Documents how German far-right actors use generative AI to produce and spread propaganda across social platforms, with new narrative and digital-strategy tactics.

Recommending Hate: How TikTok's Search Algorithms Reproduce Societal Bias

After entering racist/misogynistic slurs, ~two-thirds of examined videos perpetuated harmful stereotypes; across four languages, search and recommendation algorithms connected users to content targeting marginalized groups.

Behind the Curtain: Unveiling Pro-Kremlin Ecosystems in Europe

Maps pro-Kremlin information ecosystems operating across European social media and web infrastructure, detailing coordinated influence and foreign interference tactics.

Online Safety and the Regulation of Gaming Platforms and Services

Examines extremism and safety risks on gaming platforms and services and the regulatory gaps in addressing them.

US Election Platform Preparedness: Comparative Analysis

Assessed platforms across six areas ahead of the 2024 US election; the most alarming common finding was a pervasive lack of transparency about policies, safety efforts and resourcing.

TikTok and Anti-Migrant & Anti-Refugee Content

Of 104 analyzed videos, only 3.8% were removed; comments calling for harm to migrants persisted for months, and TikTok's search recommended deliberate misspellings that evaded moderation.

TikTok and White Supremacist Content

White supremacist content remained readily available; of 108 sampled videos, 70 were uploaded within the prior three months, and a network of neo-Nazi accounts amassed millions of views.

Quantifying extremism: UK riot-related far-right Telegram networks

Data-driven analysis of ~45,000 messages during the 2024 UK riots mapping far-right Telegram networks.

In the Blind Spot: Right-wing Extremists on Alternative and Established Platforms

Analysis of how German-language right-wing extremists build and migrate infrastructure across both mainstream and alternative platforms, exposing moderation 'blind spots.'

Antisemitism on Twitter Before and After Elon Musk's Acquisition

With CASM Technology: weekly average English-language antisemitic tweets rose 106% after Musk's takeover and new antisemitic-posting accounts more than tripled, with no evidence 'deboosting' reduced engagement.