After a three-year investigation into the rise of domestic terrorism and the federal government response, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs recently published its report , The Rising Threat of Domestic Extremism: A...
Recently, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Senior Advisor and University of California, Berkeley professor Dr. Hany Farid spoke to the Guardian, in which he discussed the aftermath of the May 14, 2022 Buffalo, New York grocery store shooting. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On October 27, 2018, domestic terrorist Robert D. Bowers carried out an anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. He fired on congregants as they gathered for worship, killing 11 people and wounding six others.
Today, Anjem Choudary & co-defendant Khaled Hussein appeared via video link for a preliminary hearing. Plea hearing… https://t.co/v424ivNqKh
RT @CEPinEurope: Early this year, @FightExtremism Strategic Advisor @LiamSD12 hosted a webinar to discuss the legacy of the fatwa, its wide…
#ISIS said that its leader was killed during "direct clashes" with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Idlib province in… https://t.co/0yzf4KREJ1
#ISIS confirmed yesterday that its little-known top leader had been killed, the third time in less than two years t… https://t.co/mzP4N5l8Ek
"Controlling the risk of terrorism is a dynamic process but it has to survive off the page to be any use." A critiq… https://t.co/HadLKh39yG
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