“Loosely Enforced” Rules Against Far-Right Contradicts Action Against ISIS Content Far-right extremists are proliferating on Telegram. Last week, the Financial Times reported that the encrypted messaging platform has “useful features” that make it an...
Rhetoric Contradicts Tech’s Efforts to Lobby Against Legislation and Failure to Abide by Existing Policies Last Sunday, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an interview with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki focused in part on how the Google-owned platform polices hate...
Following Public Outrage and Criticism from U.S. Lawmakers, Twitter Reverses Policy Twitter has suspended internationally designated terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah from its platform. The decision came in response to criticism and pressure from...
Facebook’s Latest Reactive Policy Change Meaningless Without Proper Enforcement Facebook recently made modifications to its Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, in an attempt to limit extremism on its platform. Amongst other changes, the...
Company Acknowledges it has Provided Services to Individuals, Entities Blacklisted by U.S. Government Cloudflare Inc., a website security company, recently admitted to federal regulators that it had potentially violated economic and trade laws by...
Tech Companies Can No Longer Rely On False Claims Australia has ordered five websites to remove extremist material, in an move to enforce its new law to combat online extremism. The content consisted of videos showing the beheading of a Scandinavian...
Role Is Critical As Online Hate Has Translated To Real-World Violence Extremists across the world have misused social media platforms to upload violent propaganda and hateful manifestos. Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Executive Director David Ibsen...
Tech Companies Criticized for Providing Services to Extremists Suspected gunman Patrick Crusius uploaded a 2,300 word manifesto on 8chan’s politically incorrect board, an online message board known for attracting far-right and neo-Nazi users, shortly...
Company Concurrently Promises to Provide User Data on Cryptocurrency Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fined Facebook a record-breaking $5 billion for giving third parties access to information that Facebook users did not want to share...
Libra Has Potential for Online Extremist and Terrorist Exploitation This month, Facebook announced plans to launch its own cryptocurrency, the Libra, by mid-2020. Already, regulators in both Europe and the United States are expressing concern about...
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.