Hardly surprising, yet still on the shelves: The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has finally taken the step of categorising the magazine Compact as “demonstrably extremist” with “clear far-right aspirations”. We take a closer look at the content found within Compact’s pages and how Jürgen Elsässer and his gang have positioned themselves as catalysts for various right-wing developments in Germany.

The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association has managed to remove 6, 317 items with fascist and antisemitic content through its cooperation with the major online sales platform Allegro.

The Tory MP Marcus Fysh made highly inappropriate comments about the pandemic restrictions on BBC Radio 5 Live comparing the coronavirus health passes to atrocities in Nazi Germany. The government should be in the frontline of combatting antisemitism and disinformation, not leading it.

A story published on Jelen Magazine and other news sites such as Telex.hu and 444.hu has prompted the resignation of Tamás Horváth, the editorial head recently appointed at Vasarnap, a Christian website partly financed by the Hungarian government.

Belief in the “Great Reset” narrative and how the world is allegedly transforming into a socialist eco-dictatorship has gathered pace thanks to the pandemic – with politicians now weighing in on the issue. What do the right-wing media and activists have to say about it?

the European Commision published the results of its sixth evaluation of the Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online. The Get The Trolls Out! project participated in this EC Monitoring Exercise which showed a mixed picture as IT companies reviewed 81% of the notifications within 24 hours and removed an average of 62.5% of flagged content.

For many years, European countries have had laws and regulations banning the veil.1 The pressure on Muslim women in Europe to remove it and ‘liberate themselves’ is firmly rooted in colonial ideology.

Recently there have been discussions surrounding diversifying the media which is great as representation is important. Only 0.4% of British journalists are Muslim. There are explanations for this such as interests and economic barriers. Journalists from working-class backgrounds make up just 10% of the media. However, there is no doubt that Islamophobia in the mainstream media has deterred Muslims from the field and has created barriers for them as well as a relationship of mistrust.

"Following 9/11 video games actually tended to follow the way events in the world were being reported in the mainstream media. As the mainstream media would focus more on terrorism events, video games would react to that," Michael Hitchens

"I think that the only reason that the world would cover Afghanistan again would be if there's terrorist activity that would threaten the West or their interest. This is when Afghanistan will come back to the media's attention," Bahaar Joya