The vision of the GIFCT is to prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms.

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism brings together the technology industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration and information-sharing to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online.

GIFCT’s strategic planning and programming centers on three pillars:

Prevent

Prevent

Delivering critical information and the capacity to prevent and disrupt terrorist and violent extremist activity online

Respond

Respond

Coordinating and continually strengthening the tech ecosystem’s response to the online impacts of terrorist or violent extremist incidents

Adapt

Adapt

Convening industry, experts, and civil society to understand emerging trends relating to technology, terrorism, and violent extremism

Research and Resources from our Core Partners
Global Network on Extremism & Technology

Recent insights, reports, and digests from our academic research arm

  • Feb 26 2026

    An ‘Ode to Violence’: Extremist Exploitation of Viggle AI

    New and unique online platforms are seemingly constantly cropping up, often ripe for extremist exploitation...
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  • Feb 25 2026

    Extremist Nasheeds: Emerging Subcultures and the Cultivation of Radical Online Communities in Southeast Asia

    This Insight relies on open-source intelligence to examine how nasheeds – Islamic hymns – are...
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  • Feb 23 2026

    Undermoderated and Overlooked: Arabic Online Content on the Bondi Beach Attack

    Following the heinous attack on members of the Jewish community celebrating Chanukkah on Bondi Beach...
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  • Feb 20 2026

    Warning Behaviours for Right-Wing Violent Radicalisation on Online Platforms: Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Findings

    This Insight draws on data from the RadiGaMe project and is funded by the German...
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