BUFFALO, NY - MAY 28: Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff pay their respects at a memorial at Tops Friendly Market, which was the site of a mass shooting, on Saturday, May 28, 2022 in Buffalo, NY. Ruth Whitfield, whose funeral the Vice President and Second Gentleman attended earlier in the day, was one of ten people killed two weeks ago in what federal officials are calling an act of racially motivated violent extremism, by a white man, in the shooting of a supermarket in a historically black neighborhood of Buffalo, NY. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
  • An expert with The Soufan Group recently reported on the five major trends driving the future of terrorism.
  • The report claims terrorist ideologies have become more diverse in recent decades, attacks have become more decentralized, terrorism itself has been democratized by new technologies, disinformation has been used to fuel hate, and terrorists have acquired the means to make attacks much deadlier.