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.
In Their Own Words:
When you’re dealing with a certain type of character, they’ll push their body right into your hand…and that’s when you strike. Second thing, I would say strike first.
Robert Rundo, Rise Above Movement co-founder Sep. 2020Pro-ISIS propaganda outlets continue to hit at the Taliban hard, painting the rulers in Afghanistan as apostates. S… https://t.co/a3CdabCSe5
A challenge for prosecution/rehabilitation/reintegration of female returnees will be to ensure that convicted women… https://t.co/ncx9tMwOLm
The evolution of Syria’s protest movement in 2011 into an armed revolt against the regime of Bashar al-Assad led to… https://t.co/rxU9VQIWFs
CEP reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit… https://t.co/LPE1NAnBoZ
With month-to-month increases in terrorist operations in the Sahel region, it's apparent that jihadist groups are s… https://t.co/YB2ouSSDEL
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