Dr. Hany Farid

May 26, 2022 CEP Staff

Reuploads Of Extremist Content Online Is A Solvable Problem

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...

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...

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Dr. Hany Farid

Dr. Hany Farid

Reuploads Of Extremist Content Online Is A Solvable Problem

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

Dr. Hany Farid

Reuploads Of Extremist Content Online Is A Solvable Problem

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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