Happy Tuesday everyone, here is a recap from the field of violent extremism and terrorism analysis. From the Depths is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 1) Occult Beliefs and the Far Right: The Case of the Order

Happy Tuesday everyone, here is a recap from the field of violent extremism and terrorism analysis. From the Depths is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Financing Violent Extremism: An Examination of Maligned Creativity in the Use of

Happy Wednesday everyone, here is a recap from the field of violent extremism and terrorism analysis. From the Depths is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 1) Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

Happy Tuesday everyone, it has been a very busy two weeks on my end. I am happy to share that I have successfully defended by PhD dissertation, which received an “outstanding” score. Further my dissertation was accepted “as submitted”. Therefore, here is a two week recap from the field of

what are its core ideological tenets and practices?

Why do threat actors share content outside of their core digital ecosystem? The most obvious reason for this is to expand the reach of their propaganda, as well as expand the presence of their communities onto both mainstream and adversarial platforms. Their intentions behind this can be twofold: A) they

Happy Monday everyone, here is your recap for the week of March 13, 2023. Feel free to send my way recommendations for next week. 1) The New issue of CREST Security Review brings together brings together articles that shine a light on behavioural and social science lens on innovation and

Happy Monday everyone, here is your recap for the week of March 6, 2023. Feel free to send my way recommendations for next week. 1) START has Published their Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) The PIRUS database contains important information about trends in regards to radicalization

Happy Monday everyone, here is your recap for the week of February 27, 2023. Feel free to send my way recommendations for next week. 1) ICSR launches the Repository of Extremist Aligned Documents. ICSR launched a database called the Repository of Extremist Aligned Documents for researchers, practitioners, policymakers and law

Happy Monday everyone, Going to start sharing a recap of some of the publications I have read about violent extremism and terrorism. Feel free to send my way recommendations for next week. From the Depths is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a

As part of this series on OPSEC for researchers, I want to start by highlighting what are some of the workstation options that are available to researchers by using myself as an example. Over the years I have chosen to do two things 1) use a dedicated research laptop, desktop,

Researchers it needs to be part of your research methods.

Being a member of the QAnon community is about praxis. An individual must participate in the conspiracy theory and community to become a member.

The trends I have observed from ideologically motivated violent extremist milieus and actors in 2022

How QAnon adherents find meaning in the benign.

An examination of the latest child sexual exploitation documentary by a conspiracy theorist, and comments on how these actors continue to leverage CSE as a way to promote & monetize their propaganda.

I finally am reviewing the long-awaited book on QAnon by Mike Rothschild: “The Storm Is Upon Us How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything”, published by Melville House and is 300 pages long. What is Covered? The book is broken down into three parts and 13

The Viral Seed On June 23, 2021, a Spanish court made the ruling that John McAfee would be extradited to the  United States on tax-evasion charges. Hours after the ruling, McAfee was found dead in his Jail cell of an apparent suicide. This fact alone would have been enough to

My latest analysis for the Global Network on Extremism and Technology

The Ghost Ezra channel is where QAnon turns neo-Nazi

Dismiss, Distort, Distract and Dismay.

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