Marc-André Argentino
Marc-André Argentino is a PhD candidate in the Individualized Program (INDI) at Concordia University, Montreal. His research examines how extremist groups leverage technology to create propaganda, recruit members to ideological causes, inspire acts of violence and impact democratic institutions. He is an associate fellow at the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET) and an associate researcher at the Centre d’Expertise et de Formation sur les Intégrismes Religieux, les Idéologie Politique et la Radicalisation (CEFIR).
This perspective critically examines some challenges posed to the rule of law and human rights by states’ use of data-driven learning-based artificial intelligence (AI) systems for identifying individuals presenting a threat to national security.
This perspective argues that despite the concern from researchers, policymakers, and the media about terrorist’s use of financial technologies, there is little empirical evidence of the adoption of widespread sophisticated financial plots.
This research paper retells the stories of an individual’s journey to join, dwell and fight for ISIS by examining Zafirr Golamaully’s series of blogs called ‘Dusty Feet’.