CEP-published report "An Unholy Alliance: Links between extremism and illicit trade in East Africa" featured

CEP Executive Director David L. Ibsen writes: "The Christchurch Call was a commitment by governments and tech companies to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online while ensuring that the internet remained otherwise free and secure...

CEP Advisory Board Member Mitch Silber interviewed: "A report written by the former head of intelligence at the New York Police Department, Mitch Silber, and titled Domestic Violent Extremism and the Intelligence Challenge makes clear that officials...

"While the numbers for the United States are much lower, the alarm bells are nevertheless ringing. According to a study by the Counter Extremism Project, the United States has prosecuted more than 400 jihadist terrorists. Between 2018 and 2024, sixty...

"More than 200 people have died and hundreds more have been injured since 2016 from similar incidents, according to incident tracking from the Counter Extremism Project, an international policy organization."

"'Just as the blood libel was historically used to justify horrific crimes against Jews, this type of propaganda in the United States has led to lynch mobs, among other forms of extrajudicial punishments against minorities, such as fire bombings...

"The Alliance to Counter Crime Online and the Counter Extremism Project have spent years tracking how violent groups like IS, Mexican cartels and Hezbollah utilize Facebook. It found that Hezbollah, for example, 'has used Facebook to broadcast...

"However Liam Duffy, a strategic advisor to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), argued we must focus on the victims of ISIS like the Yazidi community. The Yazidis, a small religious group concentrated in Iraq who practice a pre-Islamic faith, were...

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "'Facebook didn't want to make the decision because it's politically loaded,' said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and dean of its School of Information. 'So they kick it...

"Around 900 British citizens joined ISIS before the group’s self-styled 'Caliphate' in Syria and Iraq was crushed. However according to Liam Duffy, a strategic advisor to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), it would be 'foolish' to claim this won’t...