CEP in the News

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Februar 8, 2021

CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "Europe’s various populists, identitarians, and reactionaries are not simply shades of the same American threat. To lump all of these disparate groups and movements together, especially as extensions of the...

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Februar 8, 2021

"In January, IS militants carried out at least 46 attacks in central Syria, killing at least 55 pro-Syrian government fighters and 26 civilians, according to the Counter Extremism Project."

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Februar 5, 2021

"Joshua Fisher-Birch of the Counter Extremism Project, a research group, said TheDonald’s radicalization illustrated the push and pull between online communities’ leaders and followers that can turn them into 'hotbeds for extremist content and...

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Februar 5, 2021

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Terrorist indexes for the past decade, however, reflect a curious trend. Not only are the rates of right-wing extremist terror rising sharply in both Europe and the US, but they are rising with startling...

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Februar 2, 2021

"The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think tank has been monitoring ISIS and far-right propaganda across social media sites. The report said that the video was spread more widely through a number of file-sharing sites."

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Januar 27, 2021

CEP senior researcher Josh Lipowsky writes: "CEP has concluded that, contrary to reports of a new anti-Semitism, what we see in the world today is very much the same anti-Semitism we have witnessed for thousands of years but repackaged to fit modern...

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Januar 27, 2021

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "...a closer look at Big Tech’s history with removing extremist and terrorist content reveals that the industry has done little to seriously address the systemic ills that plague social media platforms."

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Januar 26, 2021

"According to Joshua Fisher-Birch, a terrorism analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, he detected an uptick in the promotion of the 'unnamed org' and the decentralized cell model as early as last year, when the FBI began dismantling the Base, and...

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Januar 26, 2021

" An influx of newcomers from platforms such as Parler in recent weeks, coupled with Telegram's moves to take down some content inciting violence, have left some far-right networks on the platform in a state of confusion, said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a...

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Januar 25, 2021

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Jonathan Hall QC, the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has launched an inquiry into how our prison service is managing the threat posed by terrorism. The backdrop to his review is the...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

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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