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Recent insights, reports, and digests from our academic research arm
Propaganda as Financial Infrastructure: How Islamic State and al-Qaeda Media Ecosystems Enable Terrorist Finance
Propaganda ecosystems function as parallel trust infrastructures, enabling extremist organisations to coordinate financial activity outside...Read more
Operation Herof-2: BLA Propaganda, Female Fighters, and Virality on TikTok
On 31 January 2026, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) launched a wave of large-scale coordinated...Read more
Operation Ghost Protocol: Infrastructure-Level Evasion in Islamic State Supporter Ecosystems
In a pro–Islamic State Rocket.Chat (TechHaven) channel, a lengthy post appeared on 11 February 2026...Read more
“No shadowbans. No algorithmic games”: The Exploitation of UpScrolled by the pro-Islamic State Online Ecosystem
Major social media platforms have intensified content moderation efforts in recent years in response to...Read more