Building and testing an information portal to collect and analyze terrorism-related content on the dark web

Abstract

This study aimed to build and test an information portal related to the collection and analysis of content related to terrorism on the dark web, to benefit from it in the field of combating terrorism, which could be developed in the future more broadly to support the security and practical decision, towards reducing terrorism in all its forms on the one hand. The importance of this study lies - to our knowledge - in the absence of studies at the Arab level that dealt with such a subject. The research used the case study method to study the topic from its various aspects, and in surveying the opinions of specialists this was done using the interview tool, as the research designed a questionnaire for this purpose, which included a group of (19) questions in the closed end method, and it came in two parts: and the main questions on the subject of the study, in addition to two open-ended questions about the suggestions and observations on the information portal. The results of the study concluded that an information portal was built to collect and analyze the content of terrorist groups and organizations on the dark web, and to test their functions through the study sample, which the results showed that it is very suitable for the idea of ​​the portal project and its development. The study also concluded with a number of recommendations, the most prominent of which is the recommendation to adopt the idea of ​​the study, by developing a broader and comprehensive (informational - knowledge) portal system, so that it becomes an institutional project, adopted by scientific and security institutions, such as the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona.