On Monday, April 23, 2018––a day before G7 security ministers pressed tech companies to do more to combat the spread of extremism online–– Facebook and YouTube both released updates on their progress in removing extremist content from their platforms...
Google has touted its Redirect Method Pilot Program, which aims to steer individuals searching for ISIS-related content on YouTube toward counter-narrative materials, as an effective way to combat its platform’s problem with online radicalization...
In March 2018, reports surfaced that the private information of up to 87 million Facebook users had been harvested by the firm Cambridge Analytica since 2014. This was not the first time Facebook had received backlash for the mishandling of user data...
CEP recently discovered that WordPress, the world’s most popular website management and blogging platform, is providing technical support to the website of Scottish Dawn, a banned British neo-Nazi group. Scottish Dawn describes itself as “a patriotic...
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack in New York City on October 31, city authorities began putting up concrete barriers along the Hudson River Park Bikeway as a form of protection. It still remains to be seen, however, whether tech companies...
Within the space of 24 hours, one of the hundreds of invisible Internet support companies that keep the web ticking behind the scenes had cut down what was blossoming into the ‘Facebook for ISIS.’ In a March 26 letter, the Counter Extremism Project...
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