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State of Play: Trends in Terrorist and Violent Extremist Use of the Internet 2022

Tech Against Terrorism (2023), 32 pp.
"This report covers key trends and developments in terrorist and violent extremist (TVE) use of the internet over 2022. It aims to highlight the principal shifts in TVE behaviour and tactics online, and to inform more comprehensive, cross-industry responses to countering TVE exploitation of the internet. TVE entities have expanded their exploitation of infrastructure providers through the ongoing creation and maintenance of terrorist and violent extremist operated websites (TOWs); despite the increasing prominence of TOWs in the online ecosystem, these service providers are frequently left out of the discussion of countering TVE exploitation of the internet. We have highlighted in this report some of our successes of 2022, which include domain level disruption of TVE entities online as well as our broader support for the entire tech ecosystem." (Introduction, page 4)
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS, 6
Terrorist and violent extremist operated websites - Big Tech - File sharing platforms - Gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms - Search engines - The decentralised - The dark web
TERRORIST ENTITY TRENDS, 15
Islamic State - Al Qaeda -- Far-Right Terrorist and Violent Extremist Networks
CRISIS EVENTS AND ONLINE RESPONSES, 24
GLOBAL EVENTS, 30
The Russian invasion of Ukraine