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May 5, 2015

David Isben, the executive director of the Counter Extremism project, considers Hassan “one of the most influential terror recruiters to have taken to Twitter.” The group, along with Twitter, cannot stop Hassan from returning to social media. Hassan...

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May 5, 2015

According to an investigation by CBS Minnesota , 25-year-old Mujahid Miski played a crucial role in communicating via social media channels details about the attack moments before it happened. "He played a very significant role... in terms of...

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April 3, 2015

“The Saudi Arabian leadership has said that Saudi Arabia will go nuclear,” said former U.S. ambassador Mark Wallace, now the chief executive officer at the Counter Extremism Project and co-founder of United Against Nuclear Iran [UANI]. “That may be...

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April 3, 2015

“They want to take over the region and take over as the regional superpower,” said former U.S. ambassador Mark Wallace, now CEO of the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit international policy organization.

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June 30, 2015

A new transatlantic campaign has pledged to challenge extremist groups like ISIS which misuse the internet to spread their radicalising and extremist ideology and recruit vulnerable Europeans to fight in overseas conflict zones including Iraq and...

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February 25, 2015

The nonprofit Counter Extremism Project has a petition on its website with the goal of leveraging Twitter to better prevent ISIL’s activities online. CEP CEO Mark Wallace labels the social platform’s current approach as "hands off," citing long...

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February 18, 2015

A recent report compiled by a Brookings Institute fellow to be published next month by the Brooking's Institution identified up to 46,000 Twitter accounts that were operated by ISIS sympathizers last fall.

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February 18, 2015

But former George W. Bush White House counterterrorism adviser Fran Townsend, who heads a private group called the Counter Extremism Project, which has been sharply critical of Twitter, said the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies have "plenty of...

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February 17, 2015

One group, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has been working to flag any account containing violent content - and found Twitter has only closed down a small number of problem accounts. CEP reached out to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, hoping to work...

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February 6, 2015

The Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit formed to combat the threat from extremist ideology, has launched a social media campaign to target and shut down terrorists' Twitter and Facebook accounts.

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.

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