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Mai 25, 2017

Facebook markets Facebook Live as ‘a fun, engaging way to connect with your followers and grow your audience.’ That may be how the majority of users use the product, but a quick Google search of Facebook Live turns up pages of headlines about live...

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Mai 24, 2017

ISIS videos became such a staple on YouTube that the site’s automated advertising algorithms were inserting advertisements for Procter & Gamble, Toyota and Anheuser–Busch in front of videos associated with the terrorist group. Whether Google had...

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Mai 8, 2017

Allies at a minimum share our interests, support our basic policies, and see common enemies. By this measure, Qatar is most definitely not an ally. Few countries have done more to promote the Muslim Brotherhood, including its Palestinian offshoot...

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März 26, 2017

David Ibsen, who is executive ­director of the Counter Extremism ­Project, a New York think tank which combats online extremism, warned that the battle against jihadi groups would increasingly be fought on the ­internet. He told The Sunday Telegraph...

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März 26, 2017

The PlayStation Network’s instant messaging service, which can be used on a smartphone, was described by Belgian interior minister Jan Jambon as the trickiest server for anti-terror forces to decrypt. New York-based Counter Extremism Project last...

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März 24, 2017

For over a decade YouTube has engaged in a scorched earth policy against anyone cajoling it to police its content for hate and incitement content directly implicated in the radicalization of American ISIS terrorists. Shamefully hiding behind the...

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März 23, 2017

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the Investigation process used in the London terror attack near the British Parliament on CBS This Morning.

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März 23, 2017

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses CEP's efforts to combat online extremism by pressuring Internet and social media companies to remove the most violent and dangerous types of extremist content using technology.

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März 23, 2017

CEP Research Director Julie Shain discusses the London terror attacker and methods used by ISIS and other extremist groups to pump out radicalizing propaganda online, radicalize and inspire attacks.

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März 15, 2017

CEP Senior Advisor and Dartmouth College Computer Science Professor Dr. Hany Farid discusses the problem of online radicalization and the eGLYPH technology he developed with CEP that can find and quickly eliminate known images, videos and audio files...

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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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