An academic research network on

ONLINE EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM

What is VOX-Pol?

VOX-Pol is a world-leading research network on online extremism and terrorism. It is a global network, with 30 member institutions from 12 different countries across Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia. VOX-Pol researchers have expertise in jihadism, the extreme right and left, nationalist-separatist actors, and emerging forms of extremism.

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The Mechanisms of Resilience: How True Crime Community ‘Game Studios’ Persist on Roblox

By Saddiq Basha The re-enactment of real-world mass casualty attacks on Roblox has become a recognised phenomenon within the True…

June 17, 2026

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Biology as Alibi for the Manosphere

By Inger Storm Sandboe and Antara Chakraborthy Introduction Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary on the manosphere has renewed mainstream attention to…

June 10, 2026

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Latest Insights: VOX-Pol Launches Crucial New Video Series on Online Extremism, AI, and Gendered Harms

We are excited to announce that a brand-new series of videos is now live on the VOX-Pol YouTube Channel! Bringing…

June 10, 2026

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The Mechanisms of Resilience: How True Crime Community ‘Game Studios’ Persist on Roblox

June 17, 2026

By Saddiq Basha The re-enactment of real-world mass casualty attacks on Roblox has become a recognised phenomenon within the True Crime Community (TCC)—a multi-layered online fandom that valorises perpetrators of mass violence regardless of ideology, ranging from those who consume and discuss such content to those who, at the extreme, seek to emulate them. Such ...

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Biology as Alibi for the Manosphere

June 10, 2026

By Inger Storm Sandboe and Antara Chakraborthy Introduction Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary on the manosphere has renewed mainstream attention to online subcultures often dismissed as fringe. This coincides with a broader discursive shift: the normalisation of a distinct ‘biological’ vocabulary in manosphere discourse. This rhetoric usually relies on a weak scientific basis, selectively interpreted or ...

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