🔗 As part of GNET’s LatAm series on the crime-terror nexus in Latin America, Dr Adriana Marin explores how technological innovation is reshaping the crime-terror nexus through digital finance, encrypted communications and AI, and what this means for existing theory in the Tri-Border Area:

🔗 Drawing upon Meta’s Dangerous Organizations and Individuals (DOI) policy as a case study, Rebecca Fainberg's Insight in the GNET Crime-Terror Nexus series explores how separating terrorist and criminal enforcement creates gaps that these groups can exploit.

🔗 In the next part of GNET’s Crime-Terror Nexus series, Cecilia Polizzi maps the specific mechanisms through which cartel content evades existing tech platform moderation, exploring what this misalignment means for minors and the broader implications for platforms.

🔗 As part of GNET’s series on the Crime-Terror Nexus in Latin America, Matilde Gamba investigates how Mexican cartels adapt drone tactics from the Russo-Ukrainian War and examines what this reveals about the overlap between criminal and violent extremist approaches to technology-enabled violence.

Building on previous research on extremist identity formation and influence among young users on gaming-adjacent platforms, Dr William Allchorn and Dr Elisa Orofino propose a four-part framework for preventing and disrupting extremist influence in gaming spaces.

In this new Insight, Benjamin Mok and Saddiq Basha examine the Tacloban school shooting, its contested links to 764, and how the attack was absorbed into a transnational online culture of shooter glorification, imitation and nihilistic violence. Read it here:

🗓️ Join GNET at our upcoming webinar: ‘At the Nexus of Crime and Terror: Exploring Emerging Challenges for Tech Platforms in Latin America’ on Wednesday, 30 Sept at 16:00 BST/11:00 EDT. For more details and to register, please follow the link below ⤵️

Today, Ashreet Acharya examines what factors drive the localisation and mainstreaming of jihadist propaganda in Indian digital spaces and analyses its implications for technology platforms and counterterrorism efforts.

Today, Alessandro Bolpagni and Grazia Ludovica Giardini analyse pro-IS non-branded material produced with CapCut by examining some common features of the detected audiovisual products and how they are shared within the editing platform.

In a new analysis, Dr Sadia Sulaiman examines how TTP’s growing drone capability is transforming its operational reach and tactics, increasing Pakistan’s counter-terrorism challenges in the borderland regions of Afghanistan-Pakistan.

Our latest Insight by Paula M. Núñez-Guerra examines how jihadist aetiological material in Roblox games can foster identification with jihadist groups among young players.

Against the backdrop of the 2026 Iran War, Kye Allen explores accelerationists’ admiration for authoritarian and totalitarian ‘anti-Western’ regimes in the Global South, unpacking several of its manifestations, core motivational drivers, and points of division.