Il 1° giugno 2026 è stato effettuato l’arresto nei confronti del ventunenne brianzolo Zakaria Ben Haddi con l’accusa di reato di terrorismo di matrice islamica. Il giovane, di origine marocchina ma nato e cresciuto in Italia, è risultato essere particolarmente attivo nella diffusione online di contenuto multimediale afferente allo Stato Islamico su Instagram e TikTok.
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In the last ten years, gaming has emerged as one of the most efficient youth-appealing alternative propaganda to the canonical Salafi-jihadi audiovisual material, with particular respect to the Islamic State (IS) communicative flow.
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Towards the end of 2026, the new book by ITSTIME Senior Fellow Professor Miron Lakomy, entitled Understanding Media Jihad, will be released. The volume will offer a comprehensive examination of how Salafi-Jihadi groups exploit the Internet as an instrument for strategic communication and propaganda dissemination.
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ITSTIME speeches at the VOX-Pol online seminar “Under the Radar: Understanding the Salafi-Jihadi terrorist online information ecosystem” (Part 1).
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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.
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