Facebook blocked over a million uploads of Christchurch attack video
20 March 2019
After the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, social media firms face calls to take greater responsibility for tackling hate
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We have to find a way to stop drones disrupting airports
20 March 2019
Drones near airports are grounding flights and leaving people miserable, but can we actually find a way to stop them?
The key to combating extremism is to address its social roots
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Effective techniques for preventing extremism call for intervening early, making sure disenfranchised groups are included in society and disrupting stereotypes by making people work together. Deradicalisation programmes fail when they ignore this
Does just using Facebook really make racist attacks more likely?
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According to a popular New York Times story, general activity on Facebook can fuel racist attacks in Germany. It doesn’t add up, says Tom Chivers
What makes a white nationalist?
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Race-based ideologies are gaining ground across the West. Our special report delves into the white supremacist scene in the US to ask why
Facebook Messenger used to try and deradicalise extremists
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Borrowing a technique used to radicalise people, a think tank wants to change the minds of extremists by chatting with them on Facebook Messenger
Why refusing to give up passwords is illegal under UK terror law
26 September 2017
Muhammad Rabbani, director of controversial advocacy group Cage, has been convicted under the Terrorism Act 2000 for not giving police access to his devices
It's too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research
14 September 2017
The systems designed to stop potentially risky research being published and used to make weapons of terror have “multiple shortcomings”, warns US report
To tackle extremism, we need to know the enemy
16 August 2017
We can’t counter extremism without understanding it – and that means supporting those researching it, not suspecting their motives
Anatomy of terror: What makes normal people become extremists?
16 August 2017
It takes more than religious fanaticism or hatred to make someone take innocent lives, but recognise the true roots of ISIS-inspired terror and they can be addressed
