Knowledge Themes
Radicalization and lone-wolf recruitment via encrypted platforms
Fake news, deepfakes, and the incitement of communal violence or mob lynching
State-sponsored disinformation campaigns and hybrid warfare tactics
Regulatory frameworks including IT Rules 2021 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act
Social media as a tool for terror financing and coordinating non-state actors
Structural Subtopics
- Algorithmic radicalization and echo chambers
- Use of deepfakes and AI-generated synthetic media for propaganda
- Recruitment strategies on encrypted messaging platforms like Telegram
- Role of social media in facilitating lone-wolf attacks
- Weaponization of memes and viral content for ideological warfare
- Information technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021
- Legal framework for blocking internet content and social media accounts
- Impact of social media on communal violence and mob lynching
- Use of social media for honey-trapping and espionage
- Challenges of data sovereignty and cross-border jurisdiction
- Dark web and its nexus with social media for terror financing
- Role of social media in orchestrating civil unrest and 'toolkits'
- Cyber-security threats to critical information infrastructure via social engineering
- Counter-narrative strategies and digital de-radicalization programs
- Accountability and liability of social media intermediaries in national security matters
Study Material
Full AI-synthesized study material for Social Media & Internal Security — Propaganda, Recruitment & Regulation is being calibrated.
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