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Can Facebook Help Stop al-Qaeda?
Social media is not a particularly effective recruitment tool for terrorists groups like al-Qaeda and could actually be monitored by U.S. law enforcement to gather valuable intelligence on the...
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Promise and Concern: The Future of Social Media and Real-Time Awareness
On Feb. 3, 2012, the U.S. State Department hosted its eighth conference in the Tech@State series. The two-day symposium focused on how social media and other internet-enabled data streams are used to...
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UPDATE: After Arrest, Authorities Caution Against Crowdsourced Criminal...
During last week’s frenzied pursuit of suspects after the Boston Marathon bombings, we commented on the danger of attempting to crowdsource a criminal investigation. After Friday’s arrest of Dzhokhar...
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Connecting Grassroots to Government Podcast #3: Aiden Riley Eller
Editor’s note: In September 2012, the Commons Lab hosted the Connecting Grassroots to Government for Disaster Management workshop. Over two days, we spoke with a number of event participants for a...
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Rise of the Lone Wolves
Check out a fascinating piece by Gabriel Weimann, a fellow with the Wilson Center, looking at the phenomenon of “lone wolf terrorism.” Using the Medium platform to pull together Tweets, video, photos...
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EVENT: New Terrorism Meets New Media
Hamas Advertising on Twitter. Source: Weimann, Gabi 2014 The Internet proves to be a useful instrument for modern terrorists who use it for a wide range of purposes – from recruitment, radicalization...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Recruiting Lone Wolves Online
Gabriel Weimann, a Middle East Scholar at the Wilson Center, just finished a report on New Terrorism Meets New Media examining how Al-Qaeda, its affiliates and other terrorist organizations have moved...
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How Terrorists Use Social Media: A Timeline
The Wilson Center’s Commons Lab just published an interactive timeline, using TimelineJS by the Knight Lab, on social media and terrorism with the assistance of scholar Gabriel Weimann and other...
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