GNET

News Summary:

On October 1, 2026, GNET published an insight as part of its LatAm series, examining the crime-terror nexus in Latin America, particularly focusing on the Tri-Border Area (TBA) between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. The publication analyzed how terrorist organizations exploit the region's illicit economies and cooperate with organized criminal networks, with implications for tech moderation. Previously, on September 2, GNET released an insight titled "Playful Extremism," which explored jihadist identifiers in Roblox games and the radicalization of minors, noting a surge in minor radicalization in countries such as Spain, where 93% of terrorism or extremism suspects in 2023 were aged between 13 and 20. Earlier, on August 4, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) hosted its Sixth Annual Conference. This event took place as part of a joint two-day forum alongside the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)’s Global Multi-Stakeholder Forum at King’s College London. On June 8, GNET published an insight detailing how violent extremist actors, including Salafi-Jihadists and neo-Nazis, increasingly adopt artificial intelligence (AI) for purposes such as propaganda generation and attack planning, highlighting the blurring boundary between cybercriminals, who currently drive the most sophisticated AI-enabled harms, and extremists.