The rulings issued last week by the U.S. Supreme Court in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter Inc. v. Taamneh allowed an overly broad interpretation of the liability shield in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to stand, affording tech...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in two cases that raise questions about liability shields afforded to tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The cases are Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter Inc. v...
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case Gonzalez v. Google, which challenges tech companies’ broad immunity to lawsuits over content posted on their sites and platforms. The family of Nohemi Gonzalez, an American college...
Last week, Google-owned YouTube along with Meta announced that they would expand their efforts to fight online extremism. YouTube stated that the company would “expand its policies on violent extremism to remove content that glorifies violent acts...
An investigation released last weekend by the Associated Press detailed the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)’s research on far-right extremist entities on social media in Germany, which found that the groups still maintained a presence on popular...
YouTube’s recommended videos algorithm suggests extremist content, misinformation, and conspiracy theories to its users, according to a new report by the Mozilla Foundation. The results were based on a crowdsourced research project that enabled...
Over the past week, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has identified neo-Nazi and antisemitic extremist content on major social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook-owned Instagram, and Twitter, which corresponds to a reported 80 percent...
YouTube is allowing a propaganda channel linked to the white supremacist Rise Above Movement (RAM) to operate on their platform, in a glaring example of how the popular video streaming site is failing to confront right-wing extremism. The channel...
New Policy Reduces Transparency On Ad Placements Appearing Alongside Hateful Content This week, the Wall Street Journal reported on efforts by Google-owned YouTube to restrict the platform’s “brand safety partners” from being able to share critical...
CEP Study Finds That Only 43.5 Percent Of Extremist And Terrorist Content Is Removed On Major Platforms The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Berlin conducted a new study between January 31 st and February 14 th to test big tech’s compliance with...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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