Month: December 2025

Soaring Search Results on Bing and Yahoo!

Soaring Search Results on Bing and Yahoo! Search

Dear Network,

As of the most recent results, my name yields 93k+ entries via Microsoft Bing and — also strikingly — 73k+ entries through Yahoo! Search, both on the first results page. These figures underscore the discoverability and resonance of my work within the domains of Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE), counter-hate speech initiatives, and the broader landscape of disinformation and misinformation mitigation. My visibility affirms that targeted search queries reliably surface my contributions across these critical fields via the two search engines.

Complementing this digital footprint is a steadily growing professional network: on this day, I am followed by more than 8.7k+ professionals on LinkedIn, each with direct and convenient access to my published insights: analyses, articles, documents, audio, and video.

What is more, it is worth recalling that by the end of December 2025, my portfolio of eleven websites has collectively amassed 168m+ views spanning the period from 2017 to 2025. I see this as proof of engagement and of the relevance that the content curated for about seven years keeps attracting – although oddly enough, many of the visits may have been carried out by search crawlers.

Lastly, I have filed 5,578 LinkedIn posts in 2025, which makes one of the top 5% contributors and prompted the professional network to name me a ‘Catalyst.’ LinkedIn impressions got to the mark of 692k during the past 365 days.

Please continue supporting my work.

Sincerely,
Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip
23 December 2025

Websites:
counter-terrorism.org
preventhate.org
strategism.org
sahara-sahel.org
Policyinstitute.net
GermanPolicy.com
GermanCorrespondent.com
journal-allemand.com
de-news.net
hightechPRIME.com
thorstenkoch.com

Nearing 99 Million Impressions of Our Three Initiatives’ Websites until 2025

Dear Network,

We are very joyful to announce that our three initiatives’ websites – as well as eight project sites – have almost hit the magic number of one million HTTP impressions. In fact, our project pages show exactly 99,147,586 impressions from January to December 2025, as data from our hosting provider indicate. Great news, however most impressions may result from search engine crawlers.

Adding to the mentioned figures, January saw additional FTP impressions of 126,377, while 34,921 were to be noted for March, and 17,788 for April, although these have not seen any subsequent continuation.

Let us recall that in 2024, the numbers reached a little over 20 percent of the current figures, with visits from 2017 until the end of 2024 at 67,921,258 impressions. Overall impressions from our first launch eight years ago until 17 December 2025 are 167,068,844, personal views and web crawling combined.

The trend is clearly showing upwards, even though from the beginning of our initiatives, besides web indexing pushing the figures up to some degree, some changes were made to the labeling and structure of the ensemble of websites, and we have begun to allocate content to an additional project, hightechPRIME.com. The former numbers have not been mathematically adjusted.

Currently, we entertain the following initiatives:

• Policyinstitute.net (plus four project pages)
• de-news.net (with an additional three project pages)
• thorstenkoch.com (with the above project pages as well as hightechPRIME.com)

As you enjoy exploring our content, we thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,
Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip
17 December 2025

Among the Top 5 Percent of LinkedIn Contributors in 2025

Dear Network,

According to a 2025 review compiled by LinkedIn that I just had the chance to have a glimpse at, I have been named a ‘Catalyst’ thanks to the content that I provision my LinkedIn followers and connections with.

To cite from the LinkedIn ‘year in moments: milestones, connections, and everything in-between,’ 5,578 posts that I have filed in 2025 lit the feed, which put me among the top 5 percent of LinkedIn contributors. I also made 5,117 reactions. Overall, my engagement led to almost 2,000 new followers, as the year en cours is coming to a close.

I now count more than 8,700 followers and almost as many connections, according to LinkedIn analytics. I might add that my posts attracted more than 692,000 impressions these past 365 days. These are to be attributed to, mostly, Senior Leaders such as Professors and Faculty, Researchers, and NGO Staff.

I am happy to continue informing you on the subjects of dis-/misinformation, countering hate and extremism in the years to come. Many thanks to LinkedIn – but first and foremost to my readers.

I wish you happy holidays this end of the year 2025, all the best and continued success!

Sincerely,
Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip
Policyinstitute.net
17 December 2025