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#265 Julia Ebner: Going Undercover On The Internet

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest is Julia Ebner, bestselling author and Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, where she leads projects on online extremism, disinformation and hate speech. She has acted as a consultant for the UN, NATO, and the World Bank. Her journalism has appeared in the GuardianIndependentProspect and Newsweek, and she was a key contributor to a documentary for ITV on militant responses to Brexit, and a Radio 4 piece on women in the far right. Her first book, The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism, was a bestseller and shortlisted for multiple awards. In this episode, we discuss her new book Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists. We touch on how Julia went undercover into online hate-groups; how to deal with trolls and how to improve education for young people in regards on online extremism. If you enjoy this podcast please do leave a rating or review on Apple podcasts or wherever you listen!

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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete.

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My guest today is Julia Ebner.

1:09.0

She is an author and research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, where she leads projects on online

1:15.8

extremism, disinformation and hate speech. She has acted as a consultant for the UN and the

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World Bank. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian,

1:25.2

Independent and Newsweek, and she was a key contributor to a documentary for ITV on militant responses to Brexit, a radio 4 piece on women in the far right.

1:37.2

In her first book called The Rage, she writes all about far right extremism and it was a bestseller and shortlisted for multiple awards.

1:46.0

Her most recent book is called Going Dark, The Secret Social Lives of Extremists, and it's out now and we talk a lot about this book in this

1:54.8

episode and just to give you an idea of some of the reactions to this book this is

2:00.4

what the Irish news said. To complete her investigations, she assumed a variety of identities

2:06.7

and goes undercover in a dozen tech-savvy extremist groups.

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