Martedì 11 febbraio, la polizia olandese ha arrestato 16 persone nei Paesi Bassi con l’accusa di diffondere propaganda dello Stato Islamico (IS), glorificare il martirio e incitare ad attacchi terroristici online, in particolare su TikTok. Le indagini sono iniziate nell’agosto 2025, quando l’unità di polizia dell’Aia ha individuato un account TikTok che condivideva propaganda dello Stato Islamico sottotitolata in lingua olandese. Di conseguenza, le indagini sono state estese a livello nazionale e hanno portato all’arresto di 16 persone sparse in tutto il paese. Prima degli arresti di oggi, il 20 gennaio 2026, la polizia olandese aveva arrestato il principale sospettato dell’indagine, considerato il ‘leader’ del network. Di età compresa tra i 16 e i 53 anni, tra cui 4 minori, le persone detenute sono 3 cittadini olandesi e 13 siriani, che sono (dopo gli ucraini) il secondo gruppo di rifugiati più numeroso nei Paesi Bassi.
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Odintsovo stabbing attack – by A. Pugnana, S. Lucini
On 16 December 2025, at a Russian school in the town of Odintsovo, near Moscow, Timofey Vladimirovich Kulyamov, a 15-year-old student, carried out a knife attack, killing a 10-year-old Tajik student. After some resistance, during which the attacker held another student hostage, Timofey was arrested by the authorities. The attack was livestreamed.
Continue readingGame Over, Propaganda On: How Pro-Islamic State Supporters Exploit Roblox and Discord to Disseminate Gaming Jihad Propaganda on TikTok – by G.L. Giardini and A. Bolpagni
ITSTIME speeches at the VOX-Pol online seminar “Under the Radar: Understanding the Salafi-Jihadi terrorist online information ecosystem” (Part 3)
Continue readingAnalysing the Online Thughur of the Salafi-Jihadi Digital Ecosystem: Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok – by A. Bolpagni, E. Ristuccia, and G. L. Giardini
ITSTIME speeches at the VOX-Pol online seminar “Under the Radar: Understanding the Salafi-Jihadi terrorist online information ecosystem” (Part 2)
Continue readingRocket.Chat: The Digital Safe Haven of the Salafi-Jihadi Groups – by A. Bolpagni and E. Ristuccia
ITSTIME speeches at the VOX-Pol online seminar “Under the Radar: Understanding the Salafi-Jihadi terrorist online information ecosystem” (Part 1).
Continue readingMapping the pro-Islamic State (IS) ecosystem on TikTok: a brief overview – by G. L. Giardini and A. Bolpagni
From January 2025 to October 2025, G. L. Giardini and A. Bolpagni have been monitoring and analysing the presence of the pro-Islamic State (IS) ecosystem on TikTok, especially focusing on the dissemination of IS propaganda within the social network platform. Through day-by-day monitoring using Digital Human Intelligence (Digital HUMINT) techniques, more than 270 seed accounts have been identified. The latter, which are pro-IS accounts actively sharing propaganda material, have been functional to the reconstruction of a network characterised by more than 100,000 users.
Continue reading“Make it Count”: The Terrorgram Timeline – by S. Lucini, A. Pugnana
Terrorgram collective is a loosely connected network that operates on Telegram through a net of different chats and channels that share extremist ideas. The main purpose was to promote accelerationism, neo-fascist and neo-nazi subcultures, the glorification of violence, and acts of terror by sharing propaganda with the aim to radicalise users into committing attacks. Terrorgram developed on Telegram starting in 2019, becoming the Terrorgram collective in 2021.
Continue reading“Path to Sainthood”: the role of influence played by the ‘Sanctification Propaganda Cycle’ within the Terrorgram collective – by S. Lucini e A. Pugnana
The following article is an extract from the paper “Path to Sainthood”: the role of influence played by the ‘Sanctification Propaganda Cycle’ within the Terrorgram collective, Issue 4, Vol. 21, published by the ITSTIME international journal Sicurezza, Terrorismo, Società.
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