Stuart Macdonald

Third edition of my Text, Cases and Materials on Criminal Law is now available! pearson.com/store/p/crimin…

Short expert talks will be followed by a live Q&A and discussion. Open only to the tech sector, email info@voxpolinstitute.org to attend

Join us for this insightful closed webinar that explores: •How extremist actors might/do exploit chatbots •The role of platform policies and safety tools in combating abuse •The potential for chatbots to support countering and preventing violent extremism

🚨 Event Alert – 8 September 2025, 16:30 (London/Dublin time) 📣 VOX-Pol Institute presents: Chatbots and Extremism: Risks, Policies, and Opportunities

🚨 Now Published: The Extremism Risk Guidance – Revised (ERG-R). After over a decade of guiding terrorism risk assessments in England and Wales, the ERG22+ framework has been comprehensively updated by the HMPPS CT-ARC. Read the full technical report: doi.org/10.1111/1556-4…

📢 Meet @CTProject_SM, Associate Fellow for the #RoL Team! ⚖️ Professor of Law @SwanseaUni, his work focuses on violent #jihadist narratives, #cyberterrorism & the need for a rule of law approach in #counterterrorism online. ➡️ buff.ly/E1O7nT9

Dr Lella Nouri, Associate Professor of Criminology at Swansea University and Co-Director of the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC), has pioneered the StreetSnap app to enable councils, local police and their partners to better record, utilise and remove hateful graffiti, and the Flip the Streets initiative involving community members in co-producing artwork to replace instances of hateful visuals, as she explained to Policing Insight’s Andrew Staniforth. [SUBSCRIBER ARTICLE] policinginsight.com/feature/interv… @CTProject_Lella @CYTREC_ @SwanseaUni

Prof Stuart MacDonald’s and my joint article on OFCOM terrorism and the meaning of public communication has been published in the Law Quarterly Review 2025, 141 (April), 271-292…/1

UK should consider letting IS members return, terror watchdog says bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The UK is facing a "smouldering" terror threat level with children as young as 10 accessing extreme online material, one of the country's most senior counter-terrorism officers has warned. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Telegram pushes extremist groups to users - study bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Against a backdrop of an increasingly younger terrorist cohort within His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, my latest paper explores the relationship between age and various Extremism Risk Guidance assessment outcomes. emerald.com/insight/conten…

Latest report now published: Terrorism Acts in 2022

It's Beginning to Feel Real 💃 My Book is COMING SOON Based on My 4 Years Undercover Online Researching #Racism #Extremism #Propaganda #Technology Huge THANK YOU to the AMAZING @AndrewPSilke @ProfJohnHorgan @CTProject_SM @surajlakhani @anitalavorgna for their Endorsements 😍😍😍

How have social media algorithms changed the way we interact? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

You’re invited to an open source intelligence #OSINT workshop, being held online at 3pm UK time this Wednesday, 25 Sept. The workshop will cover: •Basic OSINT techniques •Researcher’s safety •Data integrity For more info and to register: swanseauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We’re now on #LinkedIn. Come join us! uk.linkedin.com/company/voxpol #PleaseRT

'It stains your brain': How social media algorithms show violence to boys bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

My @VOX_Pol blog on the @EUCouncil designation of the Base is now out! I examine how this designation will likely impact the dissemination of The Base’s online content, given the sanction regime and the Terrorist Content Online Regulation (TCO) regulation. voxpol.eu/breaking-groun…

Delighted to see my new article on the Independent Review of the UK Prevent Strategy now out in @JD_JournalDerad! Co-authored with @CTProject_SM & @AndyWhiting25, you can read it for free here: journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/j… Many thanks to the editors and anonymous reviewers!

So glad to have attended #TASMconf in Swansea over the past couple days. Diolch yn fawr iawn @CYTREC_ @CTProject_SM for the warm welcome!