Media

My research on online hate, extremism, and organized crime is meant to inform public debate and policy, so it regularly features in national media and in evidence to government inquiries. A selection is below.

• As principal investigator, I led the study for the Department of Home Affairs and the Tackling Hate Lab documenting the surge in online antisemitic and Islamophobic hate in Australia after 7 October 2023 (and again after the December 2025 Bondi attack). A central finding — that a small, incumbent core of accounts drives most of the hate, and that these dynamics can be tracked to pre-empt escalation — was reported by two of Australia’s major mastheads: Online hatred spiked after the Bondi massacre: Meta knows why (The Sydney Morning Herald) and Meta to front royal commission to answer for the role media has played in amplifying hate (The Age). The underlying study is written up here: Home Affairs — Countering Violent Extremism (Phase 2).

• As Co-Director of the Tackling Hate Lab, I contribute to the Lab’s broader evidence on the relationship between online hostility and real-world violence, presented to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion in 2026: Real-world incidents targeting Jews reinforce ‘spiral of hate’ online, royal commission hears (ABC News).