Detecting extremist plots online
Dr Brenton Cooper explains why policing needs AI-driven open-source technology
The foiling of an extremist bomb plot targeting the huge audience at a Lady Gaga concert in Brazil shows the value of open-source intelligence. The anti-LGBTQ extremists sought to radicalise teenagers online through digital cells, inspiring them to use improvised explosives in the attack against the estimated two-million audience. Brazilian authorities gained advance warning of the plot, which gave them time to intervene and arrest two people, preventing any potentially lethal casualties from occurring.Reports say the extremists . . .
