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Network Contagion Research Institute
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NCRI is a neutral and independent organization whose mission is to identify and forecast cyber-social threats and report on them in a timely fashion.
Princeton, NJ
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    Network Contagion Research Institute
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    Dec 9, 2025
    What guides our work: The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) is an independent, nonpartisan research center that investigates manipulation, coordinated and foreign influence operations, and harms to children. Our work is cited by Congress, federal agencies,
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    New study finds DEI initiatives creating 'hostile attribution bias'
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    Oct 28, 2022
    Evidence suggests that bad actors are trying to test the limits on @twitter. Several posts on 4chan encourage users to amplify derogatory slurs. For example, over the last 12 hours, the use of the n-word has increased nearly 500% from the previous average.
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    Network Contagion Research Institute
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    Jul 13, 2022
    NCRI’s latest paper on “Anti-Hindu Disinformation: A Case Study of Hinduphobia on Social Media.” was released today on KQED/NPR Rutgers Press Release: tinyurl.com/mr2m979b KQED report: tinyurl.com/mwaknfs7 A 🧵 on our findings: @prasiddhaa_ @parthparihar @rachaelmyrow
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    Nov 8, 2024
    🚨 Key Findings from NCRI’s Amsterdam Pogrom Brief: On Nov 6-7, tensions between Maccabi TA fans and pro-Palestine activists escalated, leading to mob violence in Amsterdam. Despite advance warnings, local authorities did not intervene. PGNL, led by organizers including a
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    May 22, 2025
    NEW REPORT: On May 21, two Israeli Embassy staff were murdered outside the Jewish Museum in D.C. The shooter was linked to U.S. activist groups now under scrutiny for their ties to Iran and the CCP. Leaked data shows Iran’s state media engaged these groups—and even paid them. 🧵
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    Network Contagion Research Institute
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    Jul 30, 2025
    Reuters supplied nearly $4 million worth of news services—including text, video, and photos—to IRIB and its subsidiary Press TV, U.S.-sanctioned state media arms linked to Iran’s IRGC and known for broadcasting forced confessions and regime propaganda. Reuters communicated
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    Network Contagion Research Institute
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    Dec 21, 2023
    TikTok's Global Platform Anomalies Align with the Chinese Communist Party's Geostrategic Objectives In collaboration + @RutgersU, our report takes a data-driven approach: Does TikTok promote or demote content on the basis of CCP interests? Short answer: It certainly seems so🧵
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    Network Contagion Research Institute
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    Jan 7, 2021
    THREAD: NCRI is finding evidence of planning behind the recent storming of the Capitol Building. Evidence includes this image, found on Facebook in groups with over 150k followers, the Trump Train in late Dec. Posts were also detected on Twitter and 8chan.
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    Jul 13, 2022
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    “Hinduphobic tropes — such as the portrayal of Hindus as fundamentally heretical evil, dirty, tyrannical, genocidal, irredeemable or disloyal— are prominent across the ideological spectrum and are being deployed by fringe web communities and state actors alike.”
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    Network Contagion Research Institute
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    Nov 16, 2022
    NCRI’s new report “Cyber Social Swarming Precedes Real World Riots in Leicester: How Social Media Became a Weapon for Violence” 🧵 on our findings: networkcontagion.us/reports/11-16-…
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    Network Contagion Research Institute
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    Nov 8, 2024
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    The announcement for the violent November 7 demonstration was similarly shared on PGNL's Telegram and WhatsApp channels. Analysis of WhatsApp community yielded the mobile numbers of 4 admins, one of whom was a former UNWRA employee in Syria prior to immigrating to🇳🇱
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    Network Contagion Research Institute
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    Jul 13, 2022
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    Below are memes associated with pajeet found on Twitter, openly calling to violently kill Hindus. Extremists use memes to suggest a repeat of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Nazi style executions & co-opt the murder of George Floyd to suggest the same should be done to Hindus.
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    Network Contagion Research Institute
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    Nov 8, 2024
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    Organizers of the violent demonstration included 6 Dutch pro-Palestinian groups active on Instagram. One if not the ringleader of the violence was the PGNL, a Dutch Palestinian community group with a nationwide presence and cross-platform social media accounts.
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    Jul 13, 2022
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    Anti-Hindu Disinformation is masked through the use of ethnic pejoratives, slurs and coded language. Here's an example of a meme associated with Hindus titled “Poo in the Loo” using the antisemitic Happy Merchant Meme. This shows how ethnic hates share effective memetic material
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