2️⃣ “Multivocality Use by Extremist Ideological Groups on Digital Platforms", by Ares Boira-Lopez & colleagues

📱 Extremists use multivocal messaging across platforms — less trustworthy, but more memorable & shared more often
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Want to understand 764 better? Dive into these resources from NCITE:
🎧 Youth Recruitment & Mobilization – youtu.be/zDQ9g7wB1ao?...

🎧 Old Threats & New: ISIS & 764 – youtu.be/5KLGas6PDFE?...

Thanks to Quanecia Fraser for the excellent coverage and credit to FBI Omaha's Eugene Kowel.

More NCITE malign AI research:

📄 Case study for practitioners (led by NCITE's Emma Theobald): digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcont...

📚 Amplifying malevolent creativity (led by NCITE's Alexis d’Amato): psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

🎧 Podcast episode: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-agsb2-...

The terrorism landscape has evolved in the 24 years since, with advances in technology and shifting ideologies reshaping how the U.S. and allies combat and protect against threats. For the full research paper on ISIS, click here: digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcont...

We also reviewed the time, nature, and sentencing of the charges:
• U.S. Defendants ranged from 17 – 56 years old with an average of 27 years
• Of 263 defendants, 219 were U.S. citizens or permanent legal residents
• A majority were male
• 217 were found guilty or pled guilty

With that mission in mind, we are releasing new research entitled, “Homegrown: U.S. Federal Cases Against ISIS”. We reviewed thousands of court records and identified 263 individuals that have been federally charged with ISIS-related crimes since 2014.

Watch or listen here ⤵️
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The two discuss their research into the similarities and differences in 1) the scholarship on, 2) the public conceptualization of, and 3) the public attitudes toward punishment for terrorism, hate crimes, and other forms of mass violence.

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Check out the latest NCITE publication on threats to public officials from Hughes and Pete Simi ⤵️
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“That has a chilling effect on democracy,” Hughes said.

Hughes described the impact of threats to local officials: "They don’t know who to call…they don’t know what to do when they’re doxxed, and maybe they don’t raise their hand next time to run for office, because it’s not worth the hassle and trouble and threats."

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Read more research on IEDs ⤵️
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Most terrorist IED plots are foiled. 80% of plots were foiled while around 9% of plots failed and nearly 11% of plots were successful.

Teenagers have also been defendants in terrorist IED incidents. The authors write, "Three out of the four teen-related cases have occurred since 2023, highlighting the growing increase and worsening pattern of youth and juvenile mobilisation to acts of terrorism."

The defendants in IED cases tend to be younger men. The average age of defendants is 31, and they are overwhelmingly men, with six cases involving women and 104 cases involving men.

IED incidents involving different extremist ideologies differs every year. Radical Jihadist affiliated incidents decreased from 2019 to 2023 but increased in 2024. Additionally, there was an increase in anti-institutionalist and REMVE incidents in 2024 compared to previous years.

There are several terrorist ideologies associated with IED incidents. The most incidents are motivated by radical jihadism, followed by anti-institutionalism, then racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism (REMVE), and then other ideologies.