Journalist
Dr Julia Ebner is a regular contributor to news outlets such as the Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Washington Post and Süddeutsche Zeitung, and has featured in national flagship broadcast programmes and documentaries in the UK, US, Germany and beyond.
Selected Feature Profiles
The Times: My Undercover Life as An Extremism Expert
The Guardian: There is an Adrenaline Rush in Undercover Work
TIME Magazine: This Researcher Juggled Five Different Identities to Go Undercover With Far-Right and Islamist Extremists
El Pais (Spanish): La joven de 29 años que se infiltra en las redes de los ultras
Spiegel (German): Aus dem Innenleben einer Trollarmee
Falter (German): Undercover bei den Querdenkern
Selected Commentary Pieces
The Guardian: The big idea: is it too late to stop extremism taking over politics?
Financial Times: Dark ops: Isis, the far-right and the gamification of terror
Jewish Chronicle: I went undercover among the fascists and this is what I found
The Independent: Long Read: How jihadism and the far-right have more in common than you think
The Guardian: Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy
Washington Post: The strange tale of an unlikely racist slogan that went viral — to lethal effect (with Michael Weiss)
The Telegraph: Calls for white jihad show terrifyingly intertwined Islamists and the far-right have become (with Amarnath Amarasingam)
The Guardian: The currency of the far-right: why neo-Nazis love bitcoin
Prospect: The surprising relationship between Islamist extremists and white nationalists
Politico: Who are Europe’s far-right Identitarians?
The Guardian: How Germany’s far right took over Twitter – and tilted the election
Haaretz: From Satirical Memes to Massacring Muslims: How the Dark Web Turns White Supremacists Into Terrorists (with Cécile Guerin)
The Guardian: The far right has learned to mobilise and radicalise. Charlottesville’s a wake-up call (with Jacob Davey)
Die Zeit (German): Sind die sozialen Medien noch zu stoppen? (with Christian Stöcker and Christian Montag)
Selected Broadcast Interviews
BBC Newsnight: The UK’s counter terror strategy
BBC Woman's Hour: The world of Incels
BBC News: Is there a growing far-right threat online?
BBC World: The far right in Italy
BBC Panorama: Germany’s New Nazis
BBC 4 Today Programme: Julia Ebner on her book “Going Dark”
Channel 4 Dispatches: The Enemy Within: Inside Britain’s Far-Right
Channel4 News: The Finsbury Park Attack
Sky News: The Christchurch Attack
Sky News: The far-right is on the rise in Germany
CNN: EU Referendum debate resumes after Jo Cox killing
ARD Tagesschau (German): Hasskommentar-Analyse
ZDF Markus Lanz (German): Live Show 2019
Kulturzeit (German): Die Radikalisierung der Mitte
Bayrischer Rundfunk (German): BR Quer Live 25-Jahre Jubiläumsshow Show
Bayrischer Rundfunk Münchner Runde (German): Mehr Messerattacken, mehr Extremismus
ORF ZIB 2 (German): Julia Ebner über Verschwörungstheorien
Selected Newspaper Interviews
Washington Post: From memes to race war: how extremists use popular culture to lure recruits
New York Times: Tommy Robinson, Anti-Muslim Activist, is Freed on Bail
Guardian: From ‘study guides’ to trolling raids: how UK far-right groups target children online
Financial Times: How Tommy Robinson won the support of the global alt-right
SPIEGEL (German): Der Social Media Terror der Hamas
Süddeutsche (German): Debatte über Gamerszene: High Score fürs Morden
Le Monde (French): Attentat d’El Paso : 8chan, vivier en ligne du terrorisme d’extrême droite
El Pais (Spanish): Julia Ebner: “Estamos al inicio de la Edad Media digital. Es un camino muy peligroso”
El Pais (Spanish): Julia Ebner: “Una crisis de masculinidad aparece en los radicales. Hay que tocar su lado humano”
Selected Podcasts
The Economist Podcast: What Makes an Extremist
Intelligence Squared: How Extremists Are Taking Over
The Waterstones Podcast: Fear, Hope and Action
The Cyberhacks: Power, Corruption and Lies
How To Academy: Undercover with Extremists
News Agents: The far-right plot to overthrow Germany
True Spies Podcast: Undercover with the Nipsters
Ctrl Alt Delete: Going undercover on the Internet
BBC "Thinking Allowed": Extremism
ABC Late Night Live: Julia Ebner on her new book “Going Mainstream”
International Peace Institute: Radicalization, Nationalism, Genocide – A Threat to Europe?
NATO "Deep Dive" Podcast: Julia Ebner and Embedding with Extremists
On Shifting Ground "World Affairs”: January 6 and the Global Far-Right Revival
Tech Against Terrorism Podcast: Going Mainstream: The Role of the Internet in Mainstreaming Extremist Ideas
Decoding the Gurus: Interview with Julia Ebner: Extremist Networks and Radicalisation
SPIEGEL "Stimmenfang" (German): Auf TikTok ist die AfD schon an der Macht
FAZ Podcast (German): Julia Ebner über ihr Buch Massenradikalisierung
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