Bestselling Author. Leader of the Violent Extremism Lab
@CSSC_Oxford
, University of Oxford. Senior Fellow
@isdglobal
. Views based on data + undercover research.
I'm excited to announce the creation of the Violent Extremism Lab, which I'll be leading at University of Oxford's Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (CSSC). Check out our research, publications and upcoming events here: .
Founded and directed by…
My Oxford colleagues and I assessed the security threat that QAnon poses. You can find our analysis in this month's timely special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Perspectives on Terrorism: .
Heute ist mein neues Buch
#Radikalisierungsmaschinen
offiziell bei
@suhrkamp
erschienen. Man bekommt es ab sofort in den deutschen Buchhandlungen oder hier auf Amazon:
Warum Putin ein Held für Frauenhassen und Rassisten ist. "Staatsfeinde, Corona-Leugner, Rassisten: Forscherin Julia Ebner hat verdeckt unter ihnen recherchiert. Sie sieht in künstlicher Intelligenz eine gefährliche Waffe für Extremisten."
@kleinezeitung
My new book Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over will be released in the UK this week (22 June 2023,
@bonnierbooks_uk
). While my previous book Going Dark was about radicalisation processes in the extreme fringes of society, Going Mainstream tells the story of how…
Große Empfehlung für
@PeterRNeumann
's neues Buch! "Logik der Angst" bietet eine hochspannende Analyse zu den Wurzeln des modernen Rechtsextremismus an, die in die Tiefe geht und dabei unterhaltsam und lösungsorientiert bleibt.
#LogikderAngst
Falls Sie die
#ZIB2
im
@ORF
gestern Abend verpasst haben, hier ist mein Interview zu meinem neuen Buch "Massenradikalisierung" (
@suhrkamp
) mit
@MartinThuer
:
My
@UniofOxford
colleagues and I published a new open-access study applying our theoretically grounded Violence Risk Index to a range of far-right extremist groups. Check out the article in the peer-reviewed journal Terrorism and Political Violence: .
With…
Als ich sieben war, wollte ich Tornados erforschen. Heute erforsche ich beruflich keine Stürme, sondern Extremisten. Der Unterschied ist gar nicht so groß: Beide sind extrem zerstörerisch und man muss sich ins Zentrum begeben, um sie wirklich zu verstehen.
Vielen, vielen Dank an alle, die mich in den letzten Wochen unterstützt, ein Buch gekauft und/oder eine Rezension geschrieben haben!!
"Radikalisierungsmaschinen" ist seit dieser Woche offiziell SPIEGEL-Bestseller. 😀
Important new book by the brilliant
@evianeleidig
who provides a timely analysis of the female influencers who are bringing far-right ideas to wider audiences. Essential reading for anyone interested in politics, radicalisation and online influencers. Now out with
@ColumbiaUP
.
From important insights into the law from
@BarristerSecret
and a guide on how not to be wrong from
@mrjamesob
to a certain memoir by
@BarackObama
, there's been a wealth of political publishing this year. Take a look through some of our top picks here:
A huge honour to receive the Bruno-Kreisky-Award for the Political Book of the Year 2018. Thank you
#RennerInstitut
for a lovely ceremony and brilliant laudatory speech by
@MariaMaltschnig
.
Heute launchen wir offiziell unsere
@ISDglobal
-
#ichbinhier
Studie "Hass auf Knopfdruck" zu koordiniertem Hass im Netz. Hier geht's zur vollständigen Studie:
It was an immense pleasure to launch my new book "Massenradikalisierung" yesterday at Volksbühne Berlin with
@suhrkamp
and
@FESonline
. Danke an alle, die dabei waren! 📖🎤
I am thrilled to announce that my new book "Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" will be published by
@BloomsburyBooks
on 20 February 2020: .
#GoingDark
I had the huge honour to open this year's Political Symposium at the European Forum Alpbach
@forumalpbach
alongside former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
@SecGenBanKi
and Austrian President
@vanderbellen
. Watch all three opening speeches here:
#efa18
Incredibly happy that "Wut" ("The Rage") was awarded the Bruno Kreisky recognition prize for the Political Book of the Year 2018. What a fantastic start of the year
#2019
! :)
#BrunoKreiskyPreis
#FrohesNeuesJahr
I am very moved and honoured that my book "Wut" (The Rage") is on this year's longlist for the NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis, one of Germany's most important non-fiction literary awards. All 18 titles on the longlist can be found here:
"I can't explain that", "We have no determined concept" & "I can’t give you an answer on that"... The kind of answers you get from far-right populists when asking the right questions. Well done
@ThomasWalde
@ZDF
.
2018 Checks and Balances Shock Testing:
US: President (far-right, pro-Putin) vs. Intelligence Service
Austria: Interior Minister (far-right/pro-Putin) vs. Intelligence Service
Germany: Intelligence Chief (far-right/pro-AfD) vs. the Chancellor
#fbi
#bvtua
#chemnitz
What's next?
It's a huge honour to win the MRS President's Medal 2023 together with
@C_Kavanagh
and Harvey Whitehouse for our research. . Thank you
@TweetMRS
for an incredible award ceremony at the Old Billingsgate last night.
If you found my
@voxdotcom
interview with
@seanilling
about the interplay of islamist extremism and the extreme right interesting, you can get a copy of my book here:
"Both the far right and Islamist extremists benefit when their professed enemies engage in a terror attack or do anything that confirms their narratives."
Thousands of anti-migration protestors in Saxony - Germany's hotbed of far-right extremism, Hitler salutes being given, migrants chased, and a police force that fails to react. Yes, we should be deeply concerned by the escalations in
#Chemnitz
.
#c2708
Mein neues Buch "Massenradikalisierung" ist gerade bei
@suhrkamp
erschienen. Es geht darum, wie extremistische, antidemokratische Ideen und Verschwörungsmythen die politische und gesellschaftliche Mitte erobern:
Honoured to be quoted in this very extensive & excellent
@thetimes
piece on women in the far-right by
@LaraWhyte
: .
A highly recommended read on how female influencers are changing the face of white nationalism in the UK & Europe.
I'm incredibly honoured to have co-won the first-ever awarded Dr Caspar Einem Prize 2022, which commemorates the deeply impressive Austrian politician Dr Caspar Einem & stands symbolically for his courage, excellence in social sciences & political impact:
PUBLISHED TODAY: Our new study "Is There a Language of Terrorists? A Comparative Manifesto Analysis", with
@C_Kavanagh
& Harvey Whitehouse
@oxford_anthro
@CSSC_Oxford
. Read it here in
@tandfonline
's Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (open-access):
I was too shocked to tweet yesterday - with family and friends in Italy, I am deeply worried. The victory of
#BrothersofItaly
shows: we need to take the mainstreaming of far-right ideas seriously. This report I wrote with
@jacob_p_davey
@ISDglobal
seems more relevant than ever:
I'm incredibly honoured to be a finalist for the 2023 Celebrating Impact Prize of the
@ESRC
:
"Anthropologist Dr Julia Ebner has been nominated for her insightful doctoral research, which is already having significant impact – helping to identify which…
Hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting against the German far-right populist party
@AfD
across the entire country over the past few days. What next? Read my interview with
@tagesschau
about possible effects of the demonstrations on AfD's radicalism and popularity:…
Check out our new contribution in the
@gwupoe
Gender & Violent Extremism series edited by the fantastic
@Aud_Alexander
!
@jacob_p_davey
and I provide insights on "How Women Advance the Internationalization of the Far Right":
What communication patterns do terrorists reveal in their manifestos and how can they be used for prevention? Read & share our new comparative manifesto analysis (open-access): "Is There a Language of Terrorists?"
@oxford_anthro
@CSSC_Oxford
@tandfonline
:
Ich schreibe seit Juni eine wöchentliche Kolumne für den
@falter_at
. Hier können Sie "Ebner im Netz" kostenlos abonnieren: .
Hier erkläre ich worum es geht:
Delighted to discuss the Rise of the Far-Right Across Europe at
@ChathamHouse
next Wednesday (28th of Feb) with
@GoodwinMJ
& Ian Klinke, chaired by
@lizziedearden
. Join us: .
In der neuen
@ZDF
-Doku "Die Spur: Vom Frauenhass zum Amoklauf" teile ich meine Undercover-Erfahrungen innerhalb der Incel-Szene. Der spannend aufbereitete Investigativfilm ist jetzt auch in der Mediathek abrufbar:
I'm sharing insights from my undercover…
Not only is my home country friendly with autocratic regimes, it also starts to behave like one itself... Hard to say what I find more disturbing: our foreign minster dancing with her guest of honour Putin or the interior minstry ordering a raid against our intelligence services.
Read
@gordoncorera
's brilliant
@BBCNews
investigation into the far-right online, with our
@ISDglobal
research featuring in it:
Our research on the far-right's use of alt-tech was also covered in last night's
@BBCNews
News At Ten:
It's been a huge honour to be a finalist for the 2023
@ESRC
Impact Award alongside such excellent researchers and exciting projects: !
Watch the film about my doctoral research here:
It was a huge honour to present our
@ISDglobal
research at the UN Security Council Open Meeting on
#CTNarratives
organised by
@UN_CTED
. You can watch the full meeting here:
Elon Musk says he wants Twitter to be a town square but it’s clear his idea of a town square would be overrun by racists.
Here he is liking tweets from Britain First’s, Paul Golding.
Heute ist in der
@faznet
eine sehr erfreuliche und perfekt auf den Punkt gebrachte Besprechung meines Buches "Massenradikalisierung" (
@suhrkamp
, 2023). Lesen Sie die Rezension von Kai Spanke im
@FAZ_Feuilleton
hier:
Fast ein Viertel aller Deutschen glaubt an eine Medienverschwörung: Julia Ebner erörtert, wie Extremisten die Mitte der Gesellschaft kapern. Eine Rezension von Kai Spanke:
Looking forward to the discussion on "Religious Extremism and Terrorism in Europe" at the
@iffse_eu
online conference this Friday. Sharing a panel with former French PM
@manuelvalls
, Austrian minister
@susanneraab_at
and others, moderated by
@PeterRNeumann
. RSVP at info
@iffse
.eu.
Bitte voten Sie für "Radikalisierungsmaschinen" - jetzt offiziell auf der Shortlist für das *Beste Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres*.
Stimme abgeben dauert 30 Sekunden:
Tausend Dank!
Noch ein persönliches Highlight der
@buchmesse
war meine Buchvorstellung beim Forum Offene Gesellschaft, moderiert von der großartigen
@kattascha
, die selbst mehrere Bücher zu Verschwörungsmythen geschrieben hat.
#gef
ährlicherglaube
#massenradikalisierung
Essential reading on how ISIS has used targeted audience segmentation & how its internal and external strat comms differ. Many similarities with the alt-right's use of micro-targeting in their propaganda and messaging to get to different audiences.
@ICSR_Centre
@VOX_Pol
My latest research paper, co-authored with ICSR's
@VOX_Pol
Fellow,
@DouniaMahlouly
, compares
#IS
's internal and external messaging priorities through the lens of Rumiyah and al-Naba'. Here's a link:
To all Spanish speakers: Ahead of the 2023 Spanish general election next week, I spoke to
@elpais
technology & society reporter
@jordipc
about my new book "Going Mainstream". Here is the piece:
The political mainstreaming of extremism: I was interviewed by
@dunjahayali
on
@ZDFheute
last night about the "remigration" strategy meeting between AfD politicians and Identitarian extremists. Watch the programme here:
Nein,
@Beatrix_vStorch
@AfD
, Sie haben auf den wesentlichen Unterschied vergessen: an Chinas Unis werden Profs dafür bezahlt, die systematische Diskriminierung & Masseninternierung von Uiguren, Minderheiten und Andersdenkenden in sogenannten "re-education camps" zu rechtfertigen
An Chinas Unis werden Professoren bezahlt,die Mathe u Chemie lehren.Bei uns werden Professoren_Innen*qs bezahlt,die forschen,ob wir genug Homosexuelle,Trans-u Bisexuelle, Nicht-Weiße,Akademiker u Frauen bei der Feuerwehr haben.
#DasProblemInDiesemLand
?
Mein Buch "Massenradikalisierung" ist die Extra-Empfehlung der
@welt
-Bestenliste für September.
Was für eine schöne Überraschung, vielen Dank an
@MuenchUrsula
!
Der
@machiavellipod
- meiner Meinung nach einer der coolsten Podcasts in Deutschland - hat
@felixbrummer
von
@Kraftclub
und mich zu Rap & Radikalisierung interviewt - hier kann man die gesamte Folge anhören:
"It's often very well disguised as as a game, although there is a very strong and sometimes even dangerous extremist ideological component to it."
@reenaroy
reports on how extremist are exploiting games to promote hatred and violence.
Number of women & children joining ISIS significantly underestimated according to
@ICSR_Centre
. Frequent motivations: discrimination, persecution and lack of belonging. New must-read by
@Joana_Cook
&
@GinaAVale
:
Schon in der 2015 Hypercacher-Geiselnahme erhielt der AQ-Terrorist seine Kalashnikov vom Rechtsextremisten Claude Hermant. Fälle von Neonazi-IS-Überläufern zeigen ideol. Überlappungen u.a. im Antisemitismus, Anti-Liberalismus, Anti-Multikulturalismus, Anti-Individualismus, etc
Darren Osborne found guilty of
#FinsburyMosque
attack. What led to his radicalisation? Which role did the rhetoric of far-right groups such as
#BritainFirst
and
#EDL
and sensationalist media play? Will be addressing these questions on
@Channel4News
at 7pm. Tune in.
I spoke about my new book "Going Mainstream", the latest German intelligence report and the mainstreaming of extremism across Europe, the UK and the US on today's
@SkyNews
Daily Podcast with Niall Paterson:
Not sure if laughing or crying is more appropriate when the US President retweets the deputy leader of extreme-right Britain First
@JaydaBF
not just once but THREE times in a row. Will
@realDonaldTrump
delete them all?
Uncovered by
@correctiv_org
: Members of German far-right party AfD met with Martin Sellner/extreme-right Identitarians in November 2023 to discuss racist plans for the "remigration" of non-natives (with or without German passports).
The political mainstreaming of extremist ideas…
What an absolutely despicable act. A week after the heinous Strasbourg attack. We need to stop
#ReciprocalRadicalisation
and break this dangerous vicious circle of far-right and Islamist extremism that threatens to take us back to the worst of all times: