Dr. Yorck Beese

Gesellschaftlicher Konsensforscher in sozialen Medien

[Dr. Yorck Beese @YorckBeese]

Konsens, von lat. consensus "Übereinstimmung, Einigkeit" - worin ist die Gesellschaft sich eigentlich noch einig? Offene Frage!

[Dr. Yorck Beese @YorckBeese]

2016: Trump-followers (#qanon) want to fight child pornography in the deep state (#Pizzagate)

2025: The public wants to know about Trump's connection to Jeffrey Epstein

Q: Will #MAGA and #QAnon) consider @realDonaldTrump #deepstate?

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@MedyanDairieh Will there be an English version?

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#Syrien atmet auf, aber wie wird die Zukunft? #HTS mag mit dem globalen Dschihad sowie #AlQaeda gebrochen haben, dennoch war Jawlani bei IS-Vorläufern und auch HTS werden Menschenrechtsverletzungen angelastet. Bilder wie diese könnten - leider - kurzlebig sein.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

“This is amazing, after 50 years of death… anything that comes after #Assad’s regime will be more humane…”

Important reporting from @clarissaward, who’s also been #Sednaya prison, the presidential palace & more.

[Dr. Yorck Beese @YorckBeese]

Den Kolleg*innen von BBC Monitoring zufolge experimentieren Dschihadisten mit KI - einmal mehr sind sie aber vorsichtig, um nicht die Gebote des Islamischen Anikonismus zu gefährden.

[Mina Al-Lami @Minalami]

Our team at @BBCMonitoring published a thorough analysis about how jihadists used Gen AI in 2024. https://t.co/2AU7LChoex
Key takeaways:
- Still in experimentation mode
- So far mostly used by IS supporters & media groups to boost official messaging and repackage issues of IS weekly paper al-Naba (e.g. text-to-speech tools, translation)
- Pro-IS media groups more engaged with AI than their rival al-Qaeda supporters
- The uptake of AI tools by jihadists has not yet been as widespread as might be expected
- This in part may be linked to reservations about "halal" use of technology (e.g. the potential of AI content to violate strict Islamic proscriptions on pictorial imagery and the use of "non-Muslim" voices in machine reading)

[Dr. Yorck Beese @YorckBeese]

@Minalami @BBCMonitoring That last point is intriguing: would #IS propagandists merely TRANSFORM existing images or would they GENERATE non-existing images through AI?

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@netsociology Welcher Zug hat eigentlich gestern die Welt erfasst...

[Dr. Yorck Beese @YorckBeese]

As of today, we may again encounter ideas like "the national movement is about our race" or "use yourself to fight for a greater cause". Such rhetoric is designed to separate you from yourself and dissolve you into a controllable group. But never stop thinking for yourself.

[Dr. Yorck Beese @YorckBeese]

I have bad news for the so-called #islamicstate: their video propaganda is predictable. Find out why in my new (e-)book, 400 pages strong on the history, structure and aesthetics of their propaganda film. Please enjoy. #isis #terrorismresearch #jihadism

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@netsociology Ganz herzlichen Dank and Dich @netsociology und ntürlich @NTFeV

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Great news, everyone! "The Film of the Islamic State" is now available in print and as an ebook 👍

https://t.co/lCbdF45VOd

[Dr. Yorck Beese @YorckBeese]

Fellow researchers, the time is nigh - my book "The Film of the Islamic State - The Cinefication of Jihadi Video" is coming soon. This book is a full history and in-depth analysis of 20 years of #IslamicState propaganda videos. Paperback & ebook coming.

https://t.co/38gL3e7NZi

[Dr. Yorck Beese @YorckBeese]

@haressarwary Danke danke ❤️

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Magna cum laude 🤘

Look forward to this book. Thank you to everyone who supported and worked with me on this project.

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@schlefaz Kater... Also von dem Film, meine ich...

[Dr. Yorck Beese @YorckBeese]

Dem traditionsreichen Friedrichsbau-Kino in Freiburg droht die Schließung. Wer heute noch etwas für sein Gewissen tun möchte, hat hier die Gelegenheit -

Jetzt unterschreiben!

https://t.co/M8gPKeaDcL via @ChangeGER

[Abu alDardas alHamudi @B_B_Rod]

Making the rounds on #ISIS social media: new footage from within the Ghuwayran prison in Hasakah, #Syria, taken on mobile phones during the January 2022 raid. 1/4

[Recherche_J @online_monitord]

IS Unterstützer sind gerade sowas von zurück auf Twitter, hui. Bio's also Journalisten/Analysten, teilweise tausende Follower, Accounts auf Arabisch, Französisch, Englisch, Türkisch und weiteren Sprachen.
Für's Tagesgeschäft scheint Telegram aktuell überflüssig zu sein.

[Dr. Yorck Beese @YorckBeese]

@online_monitord Mhm, Zitat aus dem Video auch: "Das Beste ist das Wetter." Es gibt wohl auch eher wenige Touristen. Wo fängt man da an? 😉

[Dr. Yorck Beese @YorckBeese]

Proven science fact: the more you try and finish your PhD, the more you listen to Megadeth.