The Application of Digital Forensics and Machine Learning to Automatically Detect and Flag Modified Online Terrorist Propaganda

Lead Research Organisation: Swansea University
Department Name: College of Law

Abstract

In collaboration with Tech Against Terrorism: Criminology frameworks will be utilised to understand/analyse the meaning/significance of terrorist narratives/imagery, and Computer Science to identify applications used by terrorist groups/sympathisers to modify content to evade detection - to advance understanding of terrorists' use of online spaces and propaganda dissemination strategies, to inform efforts to develop tools to detect content that has been modified to evade detection.

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Studentship Projects

Project Reference Relationship Related To Start End Student Name
ES/P00069X/1 01/10/2017 30/09/2027
2598763 Studentship ES/P00069X/1 01/10/2021 30/09/2027 Shahed Warreth