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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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"During a webinar for the Counter Extremism Project on 'The current threat landscape in Afghanistan,' Mr Fitton-Brown said ties between the two organisations remain. 'Al Qaeda senior figures remain in Afghanistan as well as hundreds of armed...
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"The legislation has early support from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Counter Extremism Project and the Anti-Defamation League. The bill does not yet have support in the Senate."
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"UC Berkley professor Dr. Hany Farid, a senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, called the Eshoo-Malinowski bill 'an important measure' that would 'hold the technology sector accountable for irresponsibly deploying algorithms that amplify...
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"Hans-Jakob Schindler, director at the Counter Extremism Project, said tech companies were failing to tackle extremist content. 'The CEP is very critical of the tech industry for its failings to adequately monitor and moderate its products so that...
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CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "This was no lone wolf jihadist. Parisian Islamists stoked the flames, warning that a French genocide of Muslims was imminent if this blasphemy were tolerated. From this ecosystem of rage and grievance, the assassin...
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"Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, told VICE News that Macron’s renewed commitment to tackling Islamist extremism 'seems to be a step in the right direction.' 'Actions must have consequences,' he said. 'Groups...
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"According to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), '[Al-Shabaab] seeks to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state in the country that it hopes will ultimately expand to encompass the whole Horn of Africa. In doing so, persecution of Christians is...
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"Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley computer science professor who is a member of TikTok's committee of outside content moderation experts, said there is tension within social networks over how to respond to misinformation without also amplifying the...
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CEP Senior Advisor "Ian Acheson, a former prison governor who carried out the government’s 2016 review of Islamist extremism in jails, said he feared that a prison officer could be taken hostage and killed."
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"Amb. Edmund Fitton-Brown, the coordinator of the ISIL, al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team for the United Nations Security Council, will speak at the Counter Extremism Project webinar on ‘The Prospect For Peace In Afghanistan,' at 9 a.m."
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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