Dr. Michael Loadenthal
Dr. Michael Loadenthal is a contributing writer to the DFRLab. He is an Assistant Research Professor at the School for Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati, focusing on political violence, threat modeling, and security practices within extremist networks. He also directs the Prosecution Project (tPP), a political violence analysis platform, which he founded in 2017.
For more on Dr. Loadenthal, see: https://michaelloadenthal.academia.edu/.
March 2024
Advancing the narrative: analyzing the maturation of Palestinian militant videos
Gaza militants increasingly use collaborative releases, advanced editing, and narrative-driven storytelling when sharing battlefield footage
December 2023
How Palestinian militants use Telegram videos in the Mideast conflict
Palestinian militant factions appear to be operating with a high degree of technical coordination, producing uniformly branded propaganda videos with regularity.
