Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Usually boys arrive in this gore-loving community in these gore forums through eating disorder communities.

They write at least seven school shootings in the United States from 2024 to last fall have been linked to the true crime community, according to researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

It just it typifies mass shootings, gives it a performative script.

It tells some of these kids, hey, others have felt the way you feel and look what they did and look how everyone remembers them.

So, why would someone in Lagos care so much about American politics? Or, for that matter, why would someone in Sri Lanka care about British immigration policy? A YouTuber named Christoph spent months looking into this, and the answer turned out to be advertising rates.

A report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue called Hate for Profit identified 128 Facebook pages and groups posting anti-migrant content aimed at British audiences with a combined following of 1.6 million.

They were all traced back to one man in Sri Lanka who runs an online academy teaching students how to make money from political rage bait on Facebook.

In his training videos, he explains that politics is the niche most likely to go viral quickly.

Is that how you fight Putin? Then came the war between Israel and Gaza, and this one should make you angry.

Canadian Heritage Department gave $128,000 to a British outfit called the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, for something they called, and this is the government's own title, a digital analysis situation room on Israel-Gaza extremism, hate, and misinformation.

Now you might think, okay, so they're tracking Hamas terrorists, right? No, no.

Black Locks got the records.

It's a very frightening place.

Uh, Ciaran O'Connor is senior analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

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Now, a new survey looking at young men's attitudes to rape and sexual violence has been getting a lot of attention this week, with almost half of men under the age of 25 saying they be- b- they believe there are, to quote, "A lot of false rape al- allegations in Ireland." So what is shaping these attitudes among young men, and where does the manosphere fit into the picture? I'm joined by Ciaran O'Connor, senior analyst with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

Ciaran, maybe let's begin first with defining again what the manosphere is, uh, for listeners, and what kind of content men unfortunately are increasingly likely to encounter on their, their social media feeds.

Yeah.

So it's, again, kind of creating that, that urgency, that sense of a kind of secret, secret to success and trying to, I think, target also adolescents, boys, young men's identity, loneliness, those kinds of ideas.

It's a very worrying sphere.

Uh, Ciaran O'Connor, senior analyst with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

No doubt we will come back to it again here on The Business.

Viewing atrocities against Indigenous peoples as a way to move their own agenda forward, the group's march was not a surprise to Ray.

The senior research manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue Canada said, says the group seems to be playing a long game, traumatizing survivors and their families in the process.

He says police need to take a hard look at whether such behavior over time by such groups crosses the criminal threshold of inciting hatred.

Ray added politicians need to remain vigilant in calling out such actions.

While there is moderation here and there, a good number of the problem accounts aren't removed until they have actually caused real world consequences.

Several different organizations, such as the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, have directly blamed TikTok for their part in the increasing number of mass shootings globally.

When looking at TikTok's rise to popularity, the current surge in mass shootings has lined up directly with the platform's growth.

On TikTok, Caleb would go on to meet several other people.

We started hearing from friends around us that they've been using chatbots to obtain information about elections.

So we started thinking about how does a chatbot that knows of some information about you potentially change the information that gives you with regards to elections? About 10% of Americans report using chatbots to get their news, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

And while recent surveys show only a small proportion of American voters returnally turn to AI chatbots for information about politics and elections, this share is likely to grow in the coming years.

A voter poll conducted by the Rainey Center shared in June of 2020 section revealed that 9% of voters used AI for political information.