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

  • Mar 27 2024

    The Deepfake Threat to the 2024 US Presidential Election

    Introduction As the 2024 US election campaign ramps up, artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes are...
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  • Mar 25 2024

    Preparing for the Boogaloo: How Far-Right Communities Rallied on Discord for the Unite the Right Rally

    Introduction In August 2017, Charlottesville, Virginia, had its streets swarmed by white nationalists, klansmen and...
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Tech against Terrorism

Latest news from our mentorship and knowledge-sharing partner here

Twitter Feed

GIFCT's academic arm @GNET_research is hosting a workshop on responsible development & use of #AI to prevent & counter violent extremism.

...▪️ Mar 26, 10PT/13ET/17GMT
▪️ Virtual
▪️ Free, but registration required

See the link for more info and to register.

In honor of #IWD2024, GIFCT is proud to reiterate its commitment to human rights.

Take a look at some of the excellent Insights from our research ...arm @GNET on themes at the intersections of #gender, technology, and #terrorism and violent #extremism:

https://gnet-research.org/gender-and-online-violent-extremism/

GIFCT was pleased to join the Aqaba Process Technical Meeting for Latin America, where @ErinSaltman briefed on GIFCT's incident response and ...hash-sharing work.

We look forward to being back in the region soon for our first GIFCT LatAm Workshop!

A reminder that the Commissioning Editor & Project Manager job posting for @GNET_research, GIFCT's #research arm, closes at the end of this week!...

#hiring #AcademicTwitter #tech

GIFCT & our research arm @GNET_research (@ICSR_Centre) are #hiring!

▪️ Commissioning Editor to oversee GNET Insights. Deadline Mar 8:
...▪️ Tech Associate to develop effective tech systems & solutions. Apps reviewed on rolling basis: https://gifct.org/opportunities/

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