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

  • Dec 22 2025

    Cosplaying Columbine: How Memetic Violence Transformed Southeast Asia’s Extremist Threat

    The 7 November 2025 attack at Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri 72 (SMAN 72) in North...
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  • Dec 18 2025

    Participatory Memetic Violence: Legend, Ostension, and Ideologically Diffuse Violence

    Folk studies are not a source of analysis often used in the P/CVE space. However,...
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  • Dec 17 2025

    Monetising Misogyny: Engagement Farming and the Tactics Behind Incendiary Online Content

    This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series, aligning with the...
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  • Dec 16 2025

    Digital Weaponisation: Taliban Propaganda and Narrative Warfare on X

    The Pakistani state and Afghan Taliban forces recently clashed along the Durand Line—one of the...
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