Research that analyzed the offending pathways of 437 individuals convicted under the UK Terrorism Act and related offenses in England and Wales has found that radicalization is now more likely to take ...

People who radicalize to extremist ideologies often are triggered by negative life events or exposure to propaganda, and those who escape from extreme groups frequently are aided by an individual or ...

Social media platforms have transformed how individuals engage in political and ideological discourse. They offer unprecedented reach for both mainstream and fringe actors, enabling rapid ...

Signs of radicalization are appearing in increasingly younger people and are already evident among 12- and 13-year-olds, said ...

In the two years following the July 2005 attacks in London the term ‘radicalization’ entered the mainstream lexicon. Rarely used at all before 9/11, the term is now widely used to describe a process ...

Tackling radicalization among young people is a complex issue in which government authorities may choose to apply legal measures. Ph.D. student Nina van Capelleveen examined the risks such legal ...

YouTube is the biggest social media platform in the country, and, perhaps, the most misunderstood. Over the past few years, the Google-owned platform has become a media powerhouse where political ...

Earlier this month, Singaporean authorities announced the arrest of a 38-year-old male Singaporean teacher under the city-state’s Internal Security Act (ISA). The man was detained after allegedly ...

Research presented at the ACM FAT 2020 conference in Barcelona today supports the notion that YouTube’s platform is playing a role in radicalizing users via exposure to far-right ideologies. The study ...

Dangerous content has always existed for kids on the internet, and radical politics are no exception. However, with social media platforms providing a quick and effective pipeline to impressionable ...

Late last fall, just a few weeks before the coördinated attacks in Paris, a Brookings Institution researcher named Chris Meserole assembled all the data he could ...