24 January 2025, 12:14

By Stuart Macdonald and Sean McCafferty

For the past year the VOX-Pol Institute has been monitoring nearly 100 different terrorist channels online. What we have seen users share in these spaces is alarming.

Videos glorifying and inciting violence. Livestream footage from attacks. Graphic photosets. Magazines and manifestos offering justifications for acts of extreme violence. This content spans a variety of ideologies – including but not limited to violent jihadism, the extreme right wing and incels (involuntary celibates) – as well as a growing number of individuals consuming and sharing terrorist propaganda from across the ideological spectrum.

Perhaps most concerning of all is the availability of instructional guides for those wanting to build explosives, make poisonous substances, create their own firearms using 3D printers, and evade detection. In fact, the propaganda calls for supporters to plan attacks using whatever they have available, such as knives or vehicles.

For those that are tech savvy – or even just determined – accessing extremist material is alarmingly easy. During........

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