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"Highlighted as one of the world’s most ‘networked’ hate groups, the NRM’s members are actively seeking to further their agenda in Scandinavia and beyond, according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), which is researching the growing...
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"Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of think tank the Counter Extremism Project, told The National the Vienna attacks were well-planned. The intention of the terrorists, he said, was to exploit the pre-lockdown period to target people gathering on their...
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"Researchers at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think tank said they had monitored Rocket Chat media pages in the aftermath of the attacks last week and discovered posts showing bodies of the victims, two of whom were partially beheaded in the...
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"Links between social media content and real-world crimes and atrocities have been drawn by the CEP. Senior analyst Joshua Fisher-Birch told Metro.co.uk: 'Individuals may become interested in violent right-wing extremist ideology and participate in...
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"According to the Counter Extremism Project, 'NRM leaders and members have carried out numerous attacks against gay people, Muslim asylum seekers, and the group's ideological adversaries'. A quarter of the group's members have been convicted of a...
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CEP Senior Analyst Joshua Fisher-Birch quoted: "Even groups that claim not to support violence can be dangerous and play a role in radicalizing by spreading racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, or anti-immigrant ideology. Individuals might take violent...
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CEP Senior Researcher Josh Lipowsky writes: "However, airmen and students are not Qatar’s only guests. The emirate also chooses to host leaders from Hamas, the Taliban, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Additionally, Qatari financial institutions stand...
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"'The recent surge of terror attacks in France has shown that now, more than ever before, we need to clamp down on the spread of terrorist content online,' said David Ibsen, executive director of the Counter Extremism Project. ... Yet Ibsen said...
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CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "Franchi’s resilience doesn’t surprise Hany Farid, a University of California at Berkeley computer science professor who studies YouTube’s response to conspiracy channels. He said for all the headlines about...
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CEP Executive Director David L. Ibsen says it is “urgent to counter this proliferation of hate messages, which are very effective among vulnerable individuals.”
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