Anne is a Research Manager at Tech Against Terrorism, researching Islamist terrorism and violent far-right extremism, as well as the role of gender in terrorism. She also concentrates on OSINT analysis and terrorist use of the internet. She is the policy lead on the Terrorist Content Analytics Platform (TCAP), a platform developed by Tech Against Terrorism that alerts terrorist content to tech companies when found on their platforms. Anne has an MSc in Countering Terrorism and Organised Crime from UCL and an MA in Conflict Studies from King’s College London. She has previously worked at Dataminr, Artis International and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR).
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