Also linking my State Threat report published yesterday in case of interest - it is quite technical but I hope measures and inquisitive about how law does and might work: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69411a...

What does the UK Online Safety Act actually do? I've tried to summarise in a neutral one-pager for interested members of the public (OFCOM's website is very complex). That's the goal. Suggestions for improvements (to the one-pager, not the Act!) gratefully received.

Independent review on Separation Centres after HMP Frankland attack. Views welcome on attached issues paper

President Zelenskyy’s comments that President Trump is living in a disinformation space created by Russia exposes a key national security fault line between US and Europe if you believe online content is not just fluff…/1

Grateful for suggestions for recent UK edge-cases, not categorised as terrorism but intuitively on the cusp. Although relevant to the definitional question ("What is terrorism"), these are of course real cases resulting in death or serious injury, so a solemn task. As starter…/1

My op-ed in Weekend FT on definition of terrorism and practical solutions after Southport

J Rowe QC's independent reviews of terrorism legislation for 1997 and 1998 are now on my website under this link: terrorismlegislationreviewer.independent.gov.uk/category/rep...

I am discussing Musk and Begum (including the Supreme Court decision) on this week’s episode.

Meta: fact-checking (being removed) versus content moderation (here to stay) means *what* for terror and state threats?…/1

Basis for my comments in today’s Times on feasibility of return from Syria camps is in my 2023 paper Risk and Response here: terrorismlegislationreviewer.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/u...

The Musk intervention and what didn’t happen in 2024

By his statements on grooming gangs/ Tommy Robinson, is Elon Musk involved in the crime of foreign interference under the National Security Act 2023?…/1

Look out for March 2025. Supremely interesting and important date when UK law (Online Safety Act, incorporating many elements of terrorism legislation) comes into contact with tech reality…/1

Since Reuters (Nic Newman, 17.6.24) reports that X (and I assume BlueSky) has good reach for journalists but not general public, and as an experiment, am now posting short reels on Instagram (terrorwatchdog) - just done short one on radicalisation (Magdeburg/New Orleans) /ends.