Synthetic Hate investigates how extremists exploit artificial intelligence (AI) to modernize the world’s oldest hatred. Antisemitism – rooted in religious discrimination, medieval blood libels, Nazi propaganda, and contemporary Islamist and far-right conspiracies – has found new life through generative tools that can produce persuasive text, images, audio, and video at scale.Drawing on documented cases and controlled demonstrations, the book shows how large language models...

As we stand on the verge of remarkable technological revolutions powered by Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Information Science, the landscape of Information Systems is also on the brink of transformative changes. These revolutionary technologies promise to unlock unprecedented capabilities and efficiencies for business and society, but also introduce a complex array of ethical, legal, societal, and organizational challenges. This book argues that humanity is about to achieve ‘Informat...

The internet has become a battleground for global power struggles, with nations and even terrorist organizations wielding cyber-attacks to exert control. As the absence of binding international laws and norms leaves cyberspace largely unchecked, countries are seeking to establish their Sovereign Cyber Domains (SCD) - tightly controlled cyberspaces. In this illuminating monograph, the author explores how Russia, China, Iran, and others perceive the internet as a means for the United States ...

Phishing for Nazis is an evidence-based, undercover study of neo-Nazi communities on anonymous communication platforms that helps to shine a light on the dark web. It unveils how hatred and conspiracies spread and thrive online and how white supremacy is becoming prominent as extremists find shelter in the online dank underbelly of society.Phishing for Nazis explains how online manifestations of hate radicalize people into taking “real-world” action, such as shoot...

A novel analysis that combines traditional theories on anti-Semitism with evidence from 76 nations to explain the determinants that drive discrimination against Jews. Why Do People Discriminate against Jews? provides a data-rich analysis of the causes of discrimination against Jews across the globe. Using the tools of comparative political science, Jonathan Fox and Lev Topor examine the causes of both government-based and societal discrimination against Jews in 7...