Dr. Hany Farid

March 05, 2020 CEP Staff

Dr. Hany Farid & UC Berkeley Researchers Release Report On YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm

Report Analyzes YouTube’s Role With Disinformation, Supporting Extremist Ideologies This week, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, including Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid, released a new report...

January 16, 2020 CEP Staff

Tech & Terrorism: Following Public Outcry and Government Criticism, Facebook Makes Another Reactive Policy Change

Company’s Latest Policy Still Inadequate For Tackling Misinformation Last week, Facebook announced a new policy change in their aim to eliminate deepfakes and the spread of manipulated media ahead of the 2020 presidential election. In their updated...

October 03, 2019 CEP Staff

Tech Companies Fail to Curb Online Abuses

Dr. Hany Farid: More Must Be Done to Stop Child Exploitation, Deepfakes Child exploitation content on the Internet has dramatically increased, and current efforts to prevent and remove it by tech companies and law enforcement are not enough. In a...

March 21, 2019 CEP Staff

Facebook’s Much-Touted Improvements to Remove Extremist Content Fail in Wake of New Zealand Attack

Company’s Promises to do More to Combat Hate Speech, Re-Uploads of Known Terrorist Material are Again Proven Meaningless A few weeks before the New Zealand shootings were live-streamed on Facebook, the company’s top executives, including Mark...

January 24, 2019 CEP Staff

“Deepfakes” Represent Next Frontier of Online Extremism

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid Sounds Alarm on Proliferation of Fake, Manipulated Videos Fake and manipulated videos that have been aided by advances in artificial intelligence (AI), or “deepfakes,” present a growing problem for tech companies and...

In Their Own Words:

Many people do [believe] that it is a terrorist state, and who would possibly be a friend of Israel after you see the carnage that they carried out against Muslims in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and continue to do with the appropriation of properties? No one in their right and rational mind would support such a state [Israel].

Anjem Choudary, Internationally designated Islamist cleric and convicted ISIS supporter Oct. 16, 2021

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October 26, 2021 - 5:25pm

RT @Reuters: The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Islamic State in Afghanistan could have the capability to attack the United…

October 26, 2021 - 5:23pm

RT @jseldin: More info on Abdul Hamid al-Matar, the senior #alQaida #HurraslaDin leader killed in a US drone strike on Oct 22 "He was spec…

October 26, 2021 - 5:00pm

Kidnapped by Boko Haram and married to one of the group’s commanders. Why did Aisha Yerima return to the terror gro… https://t.co/v5Fe8xHYhs

October 26, 2021 - 4:41pm

In Edinburgh, a man accused of planning an attack on a Glenrothes mosque stands trial. The court heard that he alle… https://t.co/TvxpTFht3s

October 26, 2021 - 4:20pm

Miami man pleaded guilty Monday to posting pipe bomb instructions online for people he believed were ISIS followers… https://t.co/Iv5Sl9nQ8k

Dr. Hany Farid

Dr. Hany Farid

Dr. Hany Farid & UC Berkeley Researchers Release Report On YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm

Tech & Terrorism: Following Public Outcry and Government Criticism, Facebook Makes Another Reactive Policy Change

Tech Companies Fail to Curb Online Abuses

Facebook’s Much-Touted Improvements to Remove Extremist Content Fail in Wake of New Zealand Attack

“Deepfakes” Represent Next Frontier of Online Extremism

Daily Dose

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Dr. Hany Farid

Dr. Hany Farid & UC Berkeley Researchers Release Report On YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm

Tech & Terrorism: Following Public Outcry and Government Criticism, Facebook Makes Another Reactive Policy Change

Tech Companies Fail to Curb Online Abuses

Facebook’s Much-Touted Improvements to Remove Extremist Content Fail in Wake of New Zealand Attack

“Deepfakes” Represent Next Frontier of Online Extremism

Daily Dose

CEP on Twitter

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