Tag: online recruitment
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Australia’s Neo-Nazi Recruitment: How the NSN Is Expanding in 2024–25
Overview: A Growing Threat Within Australia Recent analyses by this masthead in collaboration with The White Rose Society highlight a troubling rise in neo-Nazi recruitment across Australia. The National Socialist Network (NSN) is reported to have attracted more than 100 new members over the past year, a level of growth unseen in recent memory. Experts…
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Australia’s Neo-Nazi Recruitment: A Growing Threat in 2025
Rising Recruitment Sparks Concern Australian researchers and watchdog groups are sounding the alarm over a sharp uptick in recruitment for extremist networks, particularly the National Socialist Network (NSN). An analysis by this masthead and allied groups indicates more than 100 new members joined the NSN in the past year. Researchers describe the trend as a…
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Australia’s Neo-Nazi Recruitment Surge: What Experts Say and What You Should Know
Background: A growing concern in Australia Reports from investigative outlets and activist groups indicate that Australia’s neo-Nazi scene is expanding, with researchers noting a noticeable uptick in new members joining the National Socialist Network (NSN) over the past year. The analysis, conducted by a leading masthead in collaboration with The White Rose Society, suggests the…
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Experts Call for Action Against Imposter Participants in Health Studies
What are imposter participants? Imposter participants are individuals who provide deceptive or inaccurate data to participate in health research, or automated computer bots that mimic human responses. As online recruitment becomes central to modern health studies—from surveys to randomized trials—the potential for these imposters to skew results grows. The concern, highlighted by Eileen Morrow and…
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Imposter Participants Threaten Health Studies: Experts Call for Stronger Safeguards
The rising challenge of imposter participants in health research Health studies increasingly rely on online recruitment to reach diverse populations quickly and at scale. But this shift has brought a troubling problem to the fore: imposter participants. In a commentary published in The BMJ, Eileen Morrow and colleagues from the University of Oxford argue that…
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Imposter Participants in Health Research: A Growing Threat
Background: Why imposter participants matter in health research Imposter participants—individuals who deliberately provide false or misleading data, or automated bots that mimic human responses—pose a growing challenge to health research. As The BMJ highlights, this issue undermines not only the data used to derive clinical insights but also the policies and medical decisions built on…
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Is this response real? Imposters are putting health studies at risk
Imposters in health research: a growing threat to data integrity Researchers conducting health studies increasingly worry about a quiet but serious problem: imposter participants. These aren’t misclassified data points from honest respondents. They are fraudulent entries or bots that masquerade as legitimate study participants, potentially skewing results, misinforming policy, and leading to questionable clinical decisions.…