Things have gotten very surreal in the dark corners of the internet. AI-generated prophets are preaching jihad in Facebook groups, Minecraft servers host digital caliphates, and school shooting fandoms gather to study their heroes and plot how to up beat their score. It’s a double bill on this episode of Angry Planet as two experts from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a nonprofit that studies and works to mitigate violent extremists, discuss the brave new world of online-born violence.

First up is Milo Comerford, the co-author of a study about nihilistic violence. Then we’ve got Moustafa Ayad to talk about how the Islamic State is circumventing bans and pushing its message on social media.

Staying sane on the internet
Violence without ideology
The Comm
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True Crime Community
Saints Culture
When fandom becomes a killing
An aesthetics driven movement
Online and offline have merged
Moderation is impossible
You don’t have to hand it to ISIS
Broken text posting
Copyright strikes and the Islamic State
Facebook professional as the gold standard
AI resurrects dead influencers
Jihad influencers
Even IS is obsessed with the Epstein files
Virtual caliphates in Roblox and Minecraft
“We must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Once again, it all comes back to 4chan
Saying nice things about twitter dot com

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